Storm Chasers/Perfect Disaster

Storm Chasers premiered in the fall of 2007 and it has been the show I most look forward to every year. The show documents IMAX film maker Sean Casey and Dr. Josh Wurman as they drive through Tornado Alley in search of some of the most powerful storms on the planet, tornadoes. Sean's goal is to film a tornado as it impacts him from his 14,000 lb custom built Tornado Intercept Vehicle. Josh's goal is to collect scientific data to better understand these powerful storms. This set contains the first season of the show which is just 4 episodes. Although season one is short the content of each show is fantastic. While the show is fun to watch, it also very informative and you can learn alot about weather from watching the episodes. Storm Chasers is the best show on television about storms and weather.The second disc in this set is called Perfect Disaster. There are 6 episodes to this set and they are documentaries that deal with what would happen if a major natural disaster were to hit large metropolitan areas. All of it is very interesting and entertaining at the same time. With 4 great episodes of Storm Chasers, the 2nd disc with Perfect Disaster is the icing on the cake. This is a great DVD set with great documentaries that are both fun and entertaining.DVD is 7 hours.

The teams are coming together here and there are more than a few clashes as they try to adjust to one another. Here, it is Reed Timmer, Sean Casey, and Josh Wurman. Sean and Josh join forces as Sean hopes to have the DOW point him where he needs to be, but things don't go too smoothly. Reed is out there seeking and finding storms, but so far has not yet built the Dominator. There are storm fronts on the move, but not all of them are in the sky.

this is a very good series, which is the first series of this show, and it has to be played bi each episode :). i recommend this series for everyone, that likes storm chasing, it's very interesting. i love this movie because they take everything seriously with storm chasing :). it's a very dangerous and scary journey.

I'm a weather junkie. Short of a meteorology degree, I know a lot about supercell activity and tornado formation. This stuff is very interesting and I've always wanted to see a tornado in person, but I live in the wrong part of the country. In another life, perhaps.The point is; storm chasing is incredibly exciting. It's a visceral experience unlike anything else, and for some reason the people in this documentary just seem too cautious/unenthusiastic about the whole thing. It's off-putting. You can get better, more exciting footage of tornadoes by opening the outbreak segments of Wikipedia, looking at the lists and classifications of the known tornadoes from a particular outbreak, and scanning Youtube for the corresponding tornado with (mostly) amateur footage of the storms.I mean, this guy Josh relies way too much on his computer models, and the irony is that within the very show he is shown to be wrong/having miscalculated numerous times. All the while, the rest of the team is viewing the actual weather with their eyes, and this meteorologist is contradicting them with computer models that ended up being wrong more than they're right. It's frustrating to watch, instead of fun. The culmination is when Josh, our buddy the "always wrong overly cautious" leader, improperly predicts storm formation to eastern Kansas, while Sean, the intuitive "photographer" storm chaser accurately calls development to the south. That development resulted in one of the worst tornadoes in history, the Greensburg tornado. Obviously storm chasing isn't an exact science and mistakes are a given, but this guy makes so many mistakes throughout some of the episodes that it kind of hampers the enjoyment of it. Ultimately, the stormchasers that rely a bit more on intuition and experience are much more engaging to watch and because the leader of this series is a cautious, conservative "radar watcher," the show suffers from it and is less interesting than it should be.To be honest, as annoying as he is, I actually prefer the videos Reed Timmer makes. He's a lot younger, more enthusiastic and focused, and more willing to take the risks which often result in larger payoffs/better footage. I'm not saying with something like storm chasing that being a wild card is better, but I get the impression in this series that the chasers here are just a little too cautious and a little too focused on their instrumentation rather than the epic views of the vicious weather all around them.The show is not bad, but it could (and should) be much better.

My son loved this show when it was on and loves these DVD's it made a great gift for the weather watcher/geek among us!

This is a really good DVD for storm lovers. The only problem with it is the language, which bothers me because my 10 year old son loves this series.

I purchased the entire series of 5 years of the Storm Chaser DVD's and even these add on DVDs. I enjoy them - informative and fast action. I am a weather buff so I do enjoy the weather information you learn when watching these DVDs. If I could humbly mention one negative - too much swearing.

If you enjoy fun documentaries and tornadoes, and storms,you'll enjoy this! I really enjoy the Storm chasers series about severe weather. It's one I can watch over and over and be entertained while learning.

Xmas gift; so am unable to review