Florida Waterspouts
October 1, 2013 5:08 AM Subscribe
After a good day of lobstering in the Florida Keys a thunderstorm blows in, spawning multiple waterspouts. Most people would hightail it for shelter, but these guys decided to take a closer look. SLYT via
Everything I see about Year Zero makes me wish I'd been paying closer attention. Hand of god and all. Reznor's is pretty good at these ARGs.
posted by Ghidorah at 5:20 AM on October 1, 2013
posted by Ghidorah at 5:20 AM on October 1, 2013
The cherry on top of the recklessness sundae: of course they're not wearing life jackets.
posted by letourneau at 5:23 AM on October 1, 2013 [18 favorites]
posted by letourneau at 5:23 AM on October 1, 2013 [18 favorites]
mittens: "Wait now, is there any reason this is any less dangerous than driving one's car into a patch of tornadoes?"Less debris flying around. Still strikes me as pretty stupid.
posted by brokkr at 5:24 AM on October 1, 2013
This is the part where the Kaiju comes roaring out of the frothing mist and smashes the thrill-seekers, right?
posted by Think_Long at 5:25 AM on October 1, 2013 [6 favorites]
posted by Think_Long at 5:25 AM on October 1, 2013 [6 favorites]
I looked up the director's name on IMDB, couldn't find him listed....
posted by HuronBob at 5:37 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by HuronBob at 5:37 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
In a very real way to me, people who do silly dangerous shit like this and film it will eventually turn YouTube into a Darwin's Memorial of Relatives You Were Already Knew Weren't That Bright Anyway But Hey They Are Immortal in One Sense.
posted by Kitteh at 5:42 AM on October 1, 2013 [7 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 5:42 AM on October 1, 2013 [7 favorites]
I read the comments.
The pattern seemed to be:
commenter1 Says something about how what they are doing is dangerous or foolish.
director Yeah, we said that. Disparaging snark about commenter, undermining their credentials (if applicable.)
commenter2 omg the dog
posted by louche mustachio at 5:50 AM on October 1, 2013
The pattern seemed to be:
commenter1 Says something about how what they are doing is dangerous or foolish.
director Yeah, we said that. Disparaging snark about commenter, undermining their credentials (if applicable.)
commenter2 omg the dog
posted by louche mustachio at 5:50 AM on October 1, 2013
It's been a weird year here in Florida for water spouts. Seems like every other storm that rolls through the Tampa Bay area over the last few months has a few. For some reason people seem to think they're harmless. Problem is, they're not.
posted by photoslob at 5:54 AM on October 1, 2013
posted by photoslob at 5:54 AM on October 1, 2013
Was that the Slice of Life? I saw this already.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
Also, Yay for idiots!
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 AM on October 1, 2013
posted by cjorgensen at 6:10 AM on October 1, 2013
I like how the guy was filming the guy filming the water-tube of death. It is like all people can think about is how many hits they will get on youtube.
posted by johnpowell at 6:20 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by johnpowell at 6:20 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
If it were a GoPro commercial someone would have dug up an article by now confirming that the dog had been sucked off the boat and drowned.
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 7:35 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 7:35 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
In the future, I expect, cameras will largely be able to upload video to the cloud in real time. In effect, we'll all be Edison Carter, live and direct.
There may be some interesting effects. For example, it may be difficult or impossible for authorities to confiscate potentially embarrassing or politically inconvenient footage.
Videos of people getting smashed to smithereens by their own foolishness will also be more likely to be seen than to be lost. That could really be quite instructive.
posted by Western Infidels at 7:36 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
There may be some interesting effects. For example, it may be difficult or impossible for authorities to confiscate potentially embarrassing or politically inconvenient footage.
Videos of people getting smashed to smithereens by their own foolishness will also be more likely to be seen than to be lost. That could really be quite instructive.
posted by Western Infidels at 7:36 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
Yeah, I've been out on the Black Rock Playa on a bicycle trying to ride into the middle of dust devils. This is the nautical equivalent. These aren't anywhere near the same scope as tornadoes.
posted by straw at 8:50 AM on October 1, 2013
posted by straw at 8:50 AM on October 1, 2013
I read "Florida Watersports" and very nearly declined to watch the video.
posted by Mooseli at 9:02 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Mooseli at 9:02 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
omd the god
posted by hat_eater at 9:09 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by hat_eater at 9:09 AM on October 1, 2013 [3 favorites]
I read "Florida Watersports" and very nearly declined to watch the video.
I read your comment and had to check that I didn't make a typo. Was relieved that I didn't.
posted by TedW at 9:41 AM on October 1, 2013
I read your comment and had to check that I didn't make a typo. Was relieved that I didn't.
posted by TedW at 9:41 AM on October 1, 2013
Dust devils and waterspouts aren't the same thing. Tornadoes and waterspouts are the same thing.
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:03 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:03 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
I read "Florida Watersports" and very nearly declined to watch the video.
It occurred to me as I watched it that the dialogue, if transcribed, would be very close to what one might hear in a gay porn video (assuming "waterspouts" is a euphemism of some sort).
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:37 AM on October 1, 2013
It occurred to me as I watched it that the dialogue, if transcribed, would be very close to what one might hear in a gay porn video (assuming "waterspouts" is a euphemism of some sort).
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:37 AM on October 1, 2013
Dust devils and waterspouts aren't the same thing. Tornadoes and waterspouts are the same thing.
This is truth.
Me and my wife went out to San Diego a month of so back, and being incautious fools, we decided to drive from the southeastern US. She saw dust devil's for the first time, and was entranced. We took several dirt track excursions to chase and photograph them. The biggest one we saw was about 50 feet wide at the base and was slowly spinning away in a field beside the road we were on. We kept a safe distance, mostly due to having had a very wild ride in a tent during a supercell in Oklahoma a few nights before. That night we decided to look up how dangerous these amazing, near silent phenomenon were in the paragon of truth and facts: Wikipedia. There we found out about the most precious weather related accident ever: Three children in an inflatable jump house were picked up by a dust devil and carried a distance of three houses and 10 feet over a fence.
My wife, who grew up on the coast and spent a lot of time on the water and has a healthy fear of lightning, wind and waterspouts, and was still a bit rattled after spending a night in a concrete block bathhouse listening to 40+ mph winds, hereafter referred to the dust devils as "cute."
posted by 1f2frfbf at 10:46 AM on October 1, 2013
This is truth.
Me and my wife went out to San Diego a month of so back, and being incautious fools, we decided to drive from the southeastern US. She saw dust devil's for the first time, and was entranced. We took several dirt track excursions to chase and photograph them. The biggest one we saw was about 50 feet wide at the base and was slowly spinning away in a field beside the road we were on. We kept a safe distance, mostly due to having had a very wild ride in a tent during a supercell in Oklahoma a few nights before. That night we decided to look up how dangerous these amazing, near silent phenomenon were in the paragon of truth and facts: Wikipedia. There we found out about the most precious weather related accident ever: Three children in an inflatable jump house were picked up by a dust devil and carried a distance of three houses and 10 feet over a fence.
My wife, who grew up on the coast and spent a lot of time on the water and has a healthy fear of lightning, wind and waterspouts, and was still a bit rattled after spending a night in a concrete block bathhouse listening to 40+ mph winds, hereafter referred to the dust devils as "cute."
posted by 1f2frfbf at 10:46 AM on October 1, 2013
I was concerned they'd lose their sunglasses. Some of those waterspouts can really wreck a picnic, and scatter those paper plates everywhere!
posted by surplus at 11:27 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by surplus at 11:27 AM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
This video reinforces my biggest problem with YouTube: everyone is a videographer but no one is an editor.
posted by rocket88 at 12:18 PM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by rocket88 at 12:18 PM on October 1, 2013 [1 favorite]
If you want to go out and put yourself in danger, fine, it's your skin. Putting a pet in danger: Stupid, senseless, inhumane and possibly criminal. But if, by chance, these asshat's boat had flipped then the Coast Guard or local Police would have to put their lives in peril to perform a rescue. That really and truly pisses me off.
posted by TDavis at 12:57 PM on October 1, 2013
posted by TDavis at 12:57 PM on October 1, 2013
The dog! The dog!
posted by thinkpiece at 12:59 PM on October 1, 2013
posted by thinkpiece at 12:59 PM on October 1, 2013
I liked the part where he counted how many spouts he could see.
Also, seconding rocket88. This is like the baseball game of videos; 3 minutes of action jam packed into 3 hours (I stole that from somewhere but am not sure where)
posted by staccato signals of constant information at 1:39 PM on October 1, 2013
Also, seconding rocket88. This is like the baseball game of videos; 3 minutes of action jam packed into 3 hours (I stole that from somewhere but am not sure where)
posted by staccato signals of constant information at 1:39 PM on October 1, 2013
Not sure if that dude is more impressed by the waterspouts or himself.
posted by davebush at 2:36 PM on October 1, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by davebush at 2:36 PM on October 1, 2013 [2 favorites]
Not sure if that dude is more impressed by the waterspouts or himself.
A man can be impressed by two things.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:58 PM on October 1, 2013
A man can be impressed by two things.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 7:58 PM on October 1, 2013
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