Storm Chaser ☈ob

Hey everyone, I’m Rob — storm chaser for a little over a decade and founder of the Chasin’ Chaos Storm Team. We cover a lot of ground across the Southeast, the Ohio Valley, and Texas, reporting severe weather, documenting storms, and doing our best to help when communities are hit hard. Our chase vehicle carries Starlink, onboard comms, radar systems, lighting, and field gear so we can operate even when towers go down or coverage disappears. We’re still growing and improving season by season — trying to do things the right way, keep people informed, and show up with purpose instead of ego. We also live for the in-between moments. Our adventures don’t stop when the radar is empty — earlier this morning I was on a mountain peak in Arkansas hanging out with a raccoon in a tiny jacket. Crazy! Sometimes chasing chaos means storms, and sometimes it’s just life being unexpectedly wild in the best way. We’re grateful to be here — to learn from this community, share forecasts, chase logs, radar breakdowns, and swap stories both on and off the plains. No drama, no superiority — just people who respect the weather and love the world we get to explore under it. If you want to see what we do or ride along: 🔗 chasinchaoswx.com Thanks for having me. Looking forward to getting to know everyone. 🌩️🌪 – at Alabama, USA

TAG @Kia , LIKE & RT PLZZZ. Help us keep Thor on the road so we can NEVER STOP HELPING🚨 This is Thor. A little two-wheel-drive 2011 Kia Sorento with 292,000 miles on him. He's been through the worst ice storms Mississippi has ever seen. Sliding off roads, getting stuck, getting back out, hauling heaters and food to people who had nothing. Right now he's deployed with the @Unitedcajunnavy and @TDStormRecovery . Now his engine's quit. It's the same engine family Kia put a recall on for this exact failure, but it cuts off at 150k miles, and I'm hoping they'd like to be part of keeping him running. I'm not doing a GoFundMe. I don't want you paying for my stuff. I can get a new car, but it won’t be THOR. I just want everybody to tag Kia, like it, and share it so it gets seen. Kia, you built something tough. Let's show the world what these cars can do. NEVER STOP HELPING. #KeepThorChasing

Day 1 to Day 1,166 THORS LAST RIDE 290k miles. Multiple cross country trips. Floods. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. River and creeks. Oceans. Oklahoma Mud. Nebraska Clay. Minnesota backroads. Offlanding. Camping. Racing. Shit. It’s done it all. I’ve taken it to impossible places. I mean everywhere they said this car couldn’t go. It’s a 4 cylinder 2.4L front wheel drive monster. I loved this car. More than any car or truck I’ve ever owned. My mom lived off grid in the desert and everywhere in this car before it became mine. Colorado mountains. Arizona canyons. Tennessee mountains. Everywhere. And when I got it, I knew I was about to put it through hell building my name and portfolio as a storm chaser. My last car perished due to a lightning strike. I named him THOR. Which stood for Tornado and Hurricane Observation and Research. That was its purpose. And I wanted the car to be different. Like art. Not some generic car with a bunch of vinyls. But something I created MYSELF. I painted every bit by hand. Rebuilt the inside. Added wire racks for quick access to items during emergencies and recovery operations. I’ve taken this little car everywhere. I’ve slept in it. Survived in it. Lived in it. Survived an armed robbery in it. Dozens of future storm chasers and weather nerds have crawled up into THOR like it was theirs. Hit all the buttons. Play with the cameras. Hit the siren. Took selfies. It’s been a damn good car. Never doubted any trip and it’s never left me stranded. I limped it home without an alternator one time. Dug sand out of it. Removed debris from the radiator after tornado intercepts. I stayed on top of maintenance and was constantly working on it when it was parked. It’s had a few different looks, but a couple weeks ago, I was finally happy with how it was turning out. I rode out Hurricane Isaias in it. Used it for recovery missions. My daily driver, THOR quickly became infamous. Everyone knew this car! Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist even nick named it MINI DOM he liked it so much. Ryan Hall, Y'all LOVES Thor! And so did everyone else! And today. We left Frenches after taking the girls shopping, and when I merged on 65 to go home, it went into limp mode. I got it home. Barely. And then the knocking was obvious, pulled the codes. Connecting Rod Bearings. Gone. The motor is shot. The car is waaay over its lifespan and I’ve sunk about 8k in it to keep it alive after the last motor failure. Tonight. We send THOR to that great open plain in the sky. And it feels like my dog died or something. I’ll get a new car eventually, but, none will ever be THOR. The little Kia that could. If you have any photos of THOR at any stage, drop em in the comments! I’d like to make a big collage poster to celebrate the life of Thor. Old cars have souls. And Thor had a good one.

You ain’t got one of these. But you can

Well fuck today I guess. Ain’t no way anyone could survive that lol. Tower guys!! How do you deal with wasps and why are they so bad this year?

Fuck

He’s done it again

Damnnnn 😬😬

We were just down there. It’s not 3rd world. The national guard is already in Florida. You know, they have their own. Cleanup was actually pretty fast in most areas and others just take time. It’s been a week. People are STILL there. Plus dozens of other entities as well as hundreds of volunteers. This is blatantly fake news.

Wow what an amazing night camping on the river in Alabama

I’m a diamond member dammit!