There are a lot of shitty jobs in Oklahoma City - we profiled some of them here - but now it may be time to add David Payne's photojournalist to the list. Watch this video to see why:
Jesus Christ! That's some intense stuff. The only thing not in that video was Helen Hunt, a couple of flying cows, and some mean lady on bicycle flying by and turning into a witch.
Anyway, this kind of hurts to say, but I think David Payne has officially surpassed Val as Oklahoma's best storm chaser. This is like the second time he's defied death while covering a storm. Now if we can only figure out what happened here.
Also, KFOR totally dominated all the other local channels with their weather coverage and footage on Tuesday. Not only was David Payne out dodging telephone poles, but Chopper 4 provided some great footage of the tornado that hit the Noble area. Hell, they even invented new words like "Elephant Trunk," "Grinder" and "Maxi Wedge Multi Vortex" to describe the tornadoes. Now if they can just do something about Mike Morgan's doomsday prognostications and bedazzled Ed Hardy tie, they may be able to take the big leap and surpass Lord England's crew.
On that note, the coverage on Channel 9 was a bit disappointing. Val couldn't be found when the storms first hit, the little weatherman in the helicopter was annoying, plus they had some crazed English storm chaser pissing all over himself whenever he saw a tornado. But...they still have Gary England. That's like having two aces up your sleeve and Micheal Jordan coming off the bench. It's virtually unstoppable.
