Michael Beard

@Get_EMLd Dumbass

5/12/2023: I passed dom 3 inside the edge of the Spalding tornado. Can’t believe it’s already been 3 years!

@sdantwx Project 2025? 🤣

Step 1: hamstring the NWS’s capability to forecast Step 2: discontinue the known forecasting tools and replace them with a trash can Step 3: diminish the public’s faith in NWS forecasters Project 2025 was never going to skip NOAA or the NWS, and you should have known that.

@jhomenuk 🤣

There is no sugar coating it - this is a horrendous decision that will significantly decrease confidence in mesoscale, short term and convective forecasting. The RRFS is terrible. Nobody that I have connected with in the community wants this to happen. Mind boggling.

@cassiefrey_wx 🤣

choose your fighter or something, idk we’ve had this argument before

@TheStaad You sir are an idiot.

I believe the United States will ultimately break up into smaller nation-states, and this will be a good thing The red flyover states will return to familial and communal living and traditional values, and the blue states will disintegrate into oblivion

@willbrattonwx We already have that in stormtrack kiddo.

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@EmeraldRobinson You voted for data centers by putting every single aspect of your life online. Social media, Google photos, Apple cloud etc etc. If we didn't NEED the storage space, they wouldn't be building them. You voted for AI by becoming a lazy nation that googles every little thing.

Nobody in America voted for data centers. Nobody in America voted for AI. Nobody in America voted for surveillance capitalism. The entire fabric of our society is being changed without the will of the people. Without a vote.

@mnhldn @disfunctionaldg @JordanHallWX They encrypte things because idiots who have no business being somewhere always tend to show up and try and be the story themselves.

@disfunctionaldg @JordanHallWX Photojournalism/video coverage is a very hard thing to break into. More and more cities encrypt police scanners and you don’t know what’s happening. You really have to learn a whole new world of stuff.

If you’re a storm chaser and allow distribution of your content and give your content to Storyful/viralhog. You are the reason networks and stock video companies don’t take us seriously. Makes you no different than someone on their back porch with a cellphone video. Not to mention the amount of undercutting you are doing to the video market on top of your own bank account.

@TexasHospitaler @AmericaPapaBear Nope

@AmericaPapaBear Absolutely. You own the airspace over your property to a certain height.

Just saw some drones flying above my house. I feel like I should have the right to shoot them down if they are flying above my property. Just saying.

@FalcnStormChase Depends on the book.

Chapter 13 can be a good thing

@lorigracewx It's not gate keeping, it's quality control. Anybody can toss out a video to a broker. But quality over quantity is the issue. When networks get 500 videos of the exact same thing but it's all shakey, out of focus, shot through a window.....they just ignore they good shit.

Most of us haven't struck it big and aren't able to source our content through the various big network friends/connections you've locked in . Also, there's a huge amount of gatekeeping with sharing that knowledge (rightfully so, you don't want competition for the same limited pool of bread). But crapping on people who haven't figured out how to find the right avenues to make money instead of guiding them only keeps the cycle going.

@anemicroyaltywx Shut up nerd

is it just me or has the internet gotten a whole lot....idk meaner?

@CRyanMauk Are you going answer questions with questions to try and deflect from being a hypocrite?

@MichaelTXWX Do I explicitly do it for profit? Do I actually profit?

I personally am not out there filming tornadoes to make money. There’s something about profiting off of what might be the worst day of somebody’s life that doesn’t really sit well with me.

It's a slow week in chasing when the hot topic is once again storyful 🤣

@ThrillaRilla369 My 11 year old son hasn't.

Everyone has at some point or another worked in fast food… Prove me wrong

@JordanHallWX If you're video is worth using, where you put it and the price being charged won't matter. 99% of the people trying to sell "professional" video have no idea what they are doing.

@BodieWeeBey How dare a company expand and make money. Those bastards.

HEB and Shipleys might be the last things we have that’s special to Texas

@wxmann Slow weather days jim?

On a clear, sunny day you can see the Interstate highways from visible satellite imagery.

@AdamLucioWX 99.9% of the people that stop at the memorial never even met the guys or truly know anything about them other than what they've seen on youtube documentaries. It's honestly not a surprise this is happening with the idiots these days that call themselves storm chasers.

THIS. Everytime Ive stopped there its disgusting the amount of lightweight trash that can just blow away in the wind is piled on top of this thing. That is not how you show respect.