Footage Gone Viral

“CNN wants the footage, they also want an interview. Better hustle over there.”

The last few pages of my book have been describing a storm chase Reed and two of his buddies were in that sparked their whole storm chasing craze. Crammed inside an old jeep wrangler and losing control of the vehicle, the boys were right in the direct path of an F7 tornado. That being, the strongest force tornado possible. The surrounding winds made driving almost impossible described Reed, so the gang tucked themselves under an overpass along with another family seeking refuge under the I-beam constructed shelter. The scene viewed by those boys that day was described to be life changing. “it was just so violent” Reed Timmer states in an interview I watched on Youtube the other day. But, not only did they watch the storm play out, they captured it on camera. It was Timmers hands and camera that were used to capture the footage, giving him the only rights to the death defying images and video recordings taken of the tornado. When he returned to his dorm at OU, word spread around his hall about the footage and everyone was itching to see it. Eventually, word got out to people who know people who knew people who knew some producers at CNN. This was a major hookup for Reed, and this hookip eventually got him some money in return.