LIVE GROUND ZERO CAT 4 HURRICANE HELENE Intercept

[@KennyRae904]

You guys are my new favorite Storm Chasers 😂😂😂, I felt like I was right there with yall

[@georgia-h2j]

You guys are the best....sorry I nissed the live but no power in SW Ga above Tallahassee. Please be safe!

[@mistydawn3259]

Awesome job team Dominator 🌟 especially you, Brian! I stuck out the whole 10-plus hours.

[@GPDogDrool]

Me too!! 👍

[@PB-gd2sw]

I'm rewatching today since I missed so much yesterday. Thanks for sharing your experience live, Reed and Team Dominator!

[@Book-Mark]

The power dropped before landfall. Prayers are with all affected.

[@sueclark3327]

Brian will likely never see this, but his commentary made the last hour or hour and a half very memorable. LOL! Love your sense of humor, Brian. Good job, Reed, Edgar, and Weatherman(?).

[@trudy285]

Once y'all got that after midnight CST tree out of your way, l had to go to sleep.🤭 Stay Safe and Well Dr. Reed + Dominating Team! God Bless! Brightest Blessings! And Thank You!!! ☺️✌️💖🦋🙏

[@nonah5067]

I pray for everyone in northern florida, what we saw tonight was insane and a lot of lives were changed

[@whystop3388]

Praying for everyone affected

[@Classified__2024]

As always produces the best footage of the storm i need info for. Thank you guys!!

[@BB-78]

Cedar key was great to watch. The surge was insane

[@katieamarshh]

Watching Reed navigate that road for like 2 hours trying to get through the trees was wild

[@ogcryptowealth]

10 hour stream Wow!

[@StElmosFire53]

@@ogcryptowealth no Reed for the landfall

[@SassyKYgirl51]

Awesome coverage again!!

[@joeygirl_]

Funny to hear Reed be the quiet calm one lol.

[@PamsPrettyPlants]

I like the guy that appears in the upper left to look at us like 😳🙂‍↔️ whenever the chasers are being crazy 😂

[@GPDogDrool]

@@PamsPrettyPlants We ❤ Brian! He adds info and some comic relief! 😊

[@WarpedWorldWeird]

Brian is the best 💜💜💜💜💜

[@jacquelyn5342]

Connor and Freddy were blocking people last night from the chat 😞😞 I unsubscribe to his channel both of them

[@prokoppako3082]

8:43:03 Going to areas that were hit by a fricking Cat 4 hurricane and known to have plenty of trees without a chainsaw! nice.👌👍👏

[@StElmosFire53]

Is Conner in truck with Reed ? He’s becoming Reed Jr if there ever was one for sure. Never stop chasing Conner. DOMINATOR through. Best Teacher there is.

[@GPDogDrool]

No, Connor was with Freddy trapped at hotel. Plenty footage with him though & yes, he is great! ❤

[@StElmosFire53]

@@GPDogDrool then why didn’t we see reeds footage ?

[@GPDogDrool]

@@StElmosFire53 We saw plenty of Reed and Edgar! Reed was in truck moving! Connor's was mainly at the hotel...and a little venturing out after the eyewall passed.

[@StElmosFire53]

@@GPDogDrool I saw Reed after the eye hit driving on back roads covered with trees then turned onto a backroad that was an evacuation route. I did not see him, where he was when eyeball hit

[@Hardball247]

No, he is just an intern

[@saucegardner6467]

Give that storm heck guys!

[@jpuriah590]

Been watching Reed for years. He is a fellow okie and we love him and the team. Just wanted an opinion here - is this the weakest cat 4/5 you’ve seen. I mean I remember Michael and that wasn’t as strong as this and did way more damage. Maybe the daylight will show more but from this video just seemed like a spring Oklahoma storm to me

[@jpuriah590]

Minus the storm surge of course - just speaking on wind and rain. Doesn’t seem like a lot from the coverage

[@edwardharrell968]

Thought the same thing.

[@StElmosFire53]

@@jpuriah590 Michael didn’t move as fast as

[@harryparsons2750]

Way overhyped like usual. Have to get in that climate change agenda bs!

[@StElmosFire53]

@@harryparsons2750 it cyclic per my husband a PHD Scientist. Back during our war with Britian we were in a mini ice age. Remember the pics or paintings of Washington crossing the Potomac ? Completely frozen

[@streamofawareness]

This was wild to watch!

[@StElmosFire53]

God Bless all in its path. Stay Safe Heed warnings. The authorities have this down.

[@jdbauer9183]

As always insane coverage

[@Yellowroseintexas5]

Stay safe ! Appreciate ya

[@dariamoran9454]

We finally get solid connection and good sound quality and they show Connor and Freddy for like 2/3 of the stream 😐

[@rebthirteen8012]

What’s wrong with that? I’m guessing they presented good coverage to watch. If there was a lull in storm action it figures you’d switch to the one that has some wild action to broadcast. Connors broadcasts were unreal at times. That’s the beauty of having a few teams out there storm chasing imo 👍

[@JethroLampitt]

They were in a better position this time

[@dariamoran9454]

@@rebthirteen8012 because they have their own streams on their own channels. This is the only channel I can watch Reed's stream. I like Connor and Freddy and don't mind when they're being shown when Reed doesn't have service or if they have a really good shot of the storm, but they shouldn't be the majority of the stream when Reed has connection and is also sitting in the eyewall. Freddy and Connor are kids so I expect some immaturity but it was a little much this stream. Screaming about "we're gonna watch Hawk Tuah podcast in the eye of the hurricane!!" As people's homes and businesses are being damaged in the background was a weird vibe. I get being excited by powerful weather but they were kinda treating it like a frat party

[@rebthirteen8012]

@@dariamoran9454 they’re young and enthusiastic with little fear in the face of adversity. I see that as a good quality to possess in life, not flaws to be frowned upon. And fear, let’s face it can take many faces. Theirs was one of bravado mixed with carefree spirituality. They could’ve got seriously injured or worse. But they chose to be who they are. That’s admirable in my opinion.

[@dariamoran9454]

@@rebthirteen8012 I never said anything negative about bravery or enthusiasm. I'm talking about tactfulness here. It's certainly possible to be brave and enthusiastic about storm chasing without treating a devastating hurricane like a party.

[@gamadmike3197]

Great Job to All , You guys killed that storm, HOPE ALL IS FINE GOD BLESS Georgia Mad Mike

[@conniedavis6540]

Yes make it, so I can go to bed.

[@rebthirteen8012]

Only just discovered your channel! Awesome coverage! Completely bonkers but I’d love to chase these type of storms too! Gutted I only discovered this channel towards the end of the hurricane season! Stormin’ TikTok lol 😂 👍 Keep up the great work. Enjoyed both live coverages out there! Is it always Team Dominator & Connor broadcasting outside? So wise to be wearing helmets and visor goggles for sure. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧 👋

[@ReedTimmerWx]

Thank you so much for tuning in!! Yes and we also have some additional teams that stream. We are going for the Live PD but storm chasing feel with expert panelists as well

[@rebthirteen8012]

@@ReedTimmerWx thanks for the reply and info. Keep up the great work, and stay safe out there. Nature is wild and beautiful. You capture it well 👏👍

[@oreosk8ter]

5:36:00 is about 7 minutes before the eye makes landfall

[@Memessssss]

W INTERCEPT

[@Gggg-sb7fg]

Im not sure the guy standing outside with the goggles and skateboard helmet on wouldve helped if a 2-tonne cow came flying past and hit him!! 🤣🤣🤣 However, Id love to be a stormchaser real buzz I bet!

[@ReedTimmerWx]

Thankfully the winds aren’t quite strong enough to do that due to physics

[@Gggg-sb7fg]

@@ReedTimmerWx Oh ok cool.

[@spareaccount1969]

Wild

[@justins3810]

You got a crap ton of views with this video! I was watching for hours last night. Did I hear it correctly that you were hoping for 100 or 200 thousand subs? You got a lot more than that! It was the best coverage available!

[@michaelltnv6741]

Reed and gang. I appreciate all you do for storm chasing always have. Last night, you only members could chat. If someone needed advice or needed help, they needed to pay. I understand it takes a lot of money to do what you do.

[@philh8829]

Who goes to chase a hurricane in mangroves and forests without a chainsaw, spotlights, and tow rope to pull trees.........

[@shervegas]

Machette! 😂😂😂

[@kvh7625]

Those who fly a plane to get there?

[@kiddt1999]

And a boat 😂

[@jesperlehmann4336]

Well, Reed does 😅

[@TallulahSoie]

I saw like ten chasers with everything you mentioned take an hour to move one tree. It was embarrassing to watch. Skill issue.

[@JudyHarrington-x9o]

Yes

[@maryannemckay5766]

Yes you will make it as long as Reed dosent say anything about big trees

[@dangunn6961]

That was intense. But not as bad as I imagined. I thought there would be very high wind, then calm, then more high wind. You guys must have missed some of it.

[@Paradise-tz6cv]

That’s cause it was very fast moving… usually they last way longer and it’s non stop crazy winds for hours and the back side of the eye wall winds were weaker cause it never fully developed but fast moving storm also made the storm surge way worse… the storm surge was terrible just look at all the damage

[@dangunn6961]

@@Paradise-tz6cv I guess you just never can tell how bad it can be for certain until it's too late. They sure had plenty of warning to evacuate. If I lived there I'd build a concrete shelter on top of a 2 feet thick concrete slab.

[@Floridaboy104]

Why weren't they monitoring wind speed- or maybe I missed it?

[@swellkristi]

They launched a subsonic sensor. They will retrieve it today if they haven’t made it there already.

[@ItsAllBallBearings]

6:20:41

[@Paradise-tz6cv]

Watching hurricane chases are the best and craziest but I can see chasing them how it can be crazy stressful… id much rather watch a hurricane chase then tornados tho cause 1 hurricanes are so fascinating how they form, how far they travel and last and it’s literally coming across the world in the scariest thing ever the ocean and just so many things are going on and non stop action but a tornado it’s mostly just driving and looking for a tornado in the damn dull country lol and it’s so hit or miss and even if u get it, they barely last long at all…. Hurricanes u get crazy adrenaline and craziness the whole time

[@guinu.]

What about the birds? What happened to them? The trees were shattered and the birds usually sleep on them.

[@LordLotman]

Ughhh They fly away

[@harryparsons2750]

@@LordLotmanlmao

[@aliciareedy8952]

Are youll in the dominator?

[@BB-78]

Wx chasing channel

[@RobertLanard]

Thank you all!

[@shawnaboatwright7626]

Any updates on Tallahassee?

[@kevb.1791]

Hey weatherman Explain to me why there is no lightning in these hurricane storms Even when it got up to us in Indiana there was no signs of lightning or thunder hmmm.

[@rebthirteen8012]

The thunder and lightning occur in the wall of the eye.

[@ReedTimmerWx]

The here was a ton of lightning in Helene. Some of them do not when they don’t have a lot of graupel or soft hail in the updraft

[@ProjectNOTOS]

We did a video about how these crazy hurricanes form on our channel if you are curious about!

[@NathanaelNewton]

6:28:01 OMG I WANT TO TRY THIS

[@gaylehogan3277]

The guys just walking pretty normally behind 😂

[@BradfordHomestead]

Why dont you guys carry chain saws?

[@Hardball247]

The interns are nuts

[@josephlacour3697]

The loss of power itself is not a catastrophe. The rain may cause flooding but it just wasn't that bad

[@aliciareedy8952]

Are you'll live now?

[@MyKirbyBlue]

Did Reed say something near the beginning about having a “no rescue policy“ at team dominator? I’m trying to guess what that might mean. I am thinking it must just mean that they’re determined to never need to be rescued. But is there something else I’m missing here? anybody know?

[@ReedTimmerWx]

Yes we will never accept being rescued

[@kindagood275]

i was in it i was out of power but not for 24 hours

[@Stealther]

I kinda want Elon Musk to sponsor Reed and let him modify a Cybertruck into a storm chasing vehicle. Seems like a good platform to start on with a low center of gravity, air suspension, and armored body panels. Just gotta mesh up the glass 😂

[@chrisstewart5992]

Yeah an electric vehicle does great in hurricanes and sea water

[@PamsPrettyPlants]

You mean the cars that have parts falling off them just driving around in normal conditions? 😂

[@TallulahSoie]

Cyber trucks are trash. A gimmick. Looking edgy and futuristic doesn't make it good.

[@missgem2026]

I’d say make it look like a Cybertruck but it needs to be 4x4 diesel lol

[@smiththrs03]

Go watch demolition ranch’s video on the cyber truck. It’s a legit Pos.

[@JethroLampitt]

You should at least take a silky saw in the boot if you don't like using chainsaws on your chases

[@ReedTimmerWx]

You are right I should have had chainsaws but I flew in to this one

[@aliciareedy8952]

How long did they stay out i watched until the eye

[@GPDogDrool]

Til about 2:15 a.m. when Brian lost the feed. They got trapped by trees trying to go retrieve equipment but were heading back to Perry.

[@aliciareedy8952]

Yikes! Thank you for answering ​@@GPDogDrool

[@UnspeakableJR-tb8zj]

No so sad 😢 isn’t it going to South Carolina

[@benoitcrokaert2321]

❤❤❤❤

[@bobp5561]

are these chasers amateurs or something? standing outside in the wind screaming versus using any tools/devices to record and report on wind speed etc

[@Paradise-tz6cv]

Bruh reed is a doctor in weather and actually has a PHD… the dudes was all over tv the National Geographic channel, Disney, Netflix and others chasing the craziest storms for decades… just Google him bud… u must have been talking about the other kids that he has on

[@epitome99]

Reed has a PhD in meteorology! So to answer you question. Yes. This is all super necessary! 🎉

[@AlaskaB83]

They're professional storm chasers, not scientists. One could argue Reed is a scientist with his PhD yadda yadda, but he rarely actually does science. He's an entertainer. I'm not putting him down, I'm fine with it

[@chrism4513]

@@AlaskaB83Connor is everything except professional lol

[@pamjones3030]

Next time, bring extra gas with you, like a lot of the other chasers. You could be out in the middle of nowhere when you run out of gas. Be safe out there.

[@WildeTernence-f9r]

Roberts Forks

[@bisket2003]

Are you taking edibles?!?! hahhahhah

[@DonG-c4j]

Good gawd y’all

[@johngoodman7160]

Could been like daral was here in texas had generator chain saw gas power went out generator great tree fell on porch crushed generator had chainsaw cut tree off it all chain busted then second wave come over went to shed where it used to be all tools chain and extra generator gone 😂😂😂

[@suebielaczyc8929]

Echo

[@johngoodman7160]

Love the hater's also 😂

[@JudyHarrington-x9o]

You’re echoing

[@mfhairstream6812]

bit of a nothing burger

[@josephlacour3697]

It literally wasn't that bad of a storm

[@Uromastyxfanatics]

🤡

[@harryparsons2750]

Overblown like always. Just like snowstorms around here. Always supposed to be Armageddon and then we get an inch of snow before it turns to rain 🌧️ lol

[@negano5654]

Go tell that to the people who lost there homes and businesses buddy

[@ryrys1601]

At some point i fear that Reed will take it too far. He may have some PHD in meteorology - but he takes things way too far. IMO he only shows off some type of - look at me - I outsmart it all. He entices many storm chasers into a sense of - safety. Like - this is not bad. He completely plays with peoples lives. His luck will only last for so long as he pushes and pushes and pushes the limits. Very unresponsible. Go use your PHD to teach or create something useful. At this point - you set no positive example but crazy storm chasing.

[@GPDogDrool]

Anybody tell you what job to have or how to do it? You obviously aren't aware of the fact he KNOWS what he's doing and has done it a long time. The fact that he has a PhD + so much experience also makes him about 99% right in his predictions and understanding storms. His research IS teaching. All of it combined has saved many lives, some in the middle of chases! Go tell a cop not to be a cop. 🙄

[@acidbubblebath77]

I agree with you. People were killed last night and others lost everything they had while these guys were playing Mr. tough guy in the eyewall. This display of frat party antics sets a terrible example to the public about safety during life-threatening weather events like this and simultaneously undermines the rest of the community's efforts to inform the public on how to stay safe when life threatening weather events do occur. All that aside, I can't help but wonder how all this would have played out in the end had any one of them been struck by a piece of debris while the eyewall was passing? While I am relieved this did not happen, doing crap like this only increases the likelihood that next time it won't go well for anyone.

[@acidbubblebath77]

@@GPDogDrool Just because someone knows what they are doing does not negate the fact that at any point, they can make a reckless mistake and pay the price for it. The guys from TWISTEX were not exactly amateurs but were also not nearly as reckless as these guys were here. Let me be clear about one thing though, this is not an indictment against Reed's work as a whole, but it is an admonishment against what him and his team did in this particular event. If I am wrong about this, then fine, but I just don't see how playing macho while there is a high potential of being struck by debris that is being driven by winds of F2 magnitude and cheering about it is going to dissuade the public from either trying the same thing or outright ignoring public safety mandates (i.e. stay indoors, evacuate, etc).

[@harryparsons2750]

@@acidbubblebath77oh get over yourself! What makes you the arbiter of what anyone should or shouldn’t do? This is America people can do what they want!

[@harryparsons2750]

@@acidbubblebath77public safety mandates? Like the ones from 4 years ago that were all LIES and just NOT TRUE? Yeah sorry but I don’t think I will

[@jrock360jsimpkins8]

I thought reed said he ain't stopping till he finds daddy's oil 💦 stache 🥸

[@suebielaczyc8929]

Yes