Customer Reviews

Storm Stories

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First off, since there's no actual info given on this product, here's some:
***Disc 1***
Blown From Her Arms
Lives Torn Apart
Allison's Wake
Shelter From The Storm
Tornado Terror
***Disc 2***
Gone In An Instant
After School Twister
Without Warning
Left Behind After Floyd
Laguna Landslide
***Disc 3***
Hurricane Ivan
Ice Storm
Weather Dog
F-5 Tornado
Black Tie - Black Night
***Disc 4***
Tornado Six Pack
In The River's Path
Deafening Sound
Iowa November Tornado
When Chuckie Met Ivan
***Disc 5***
New Orleans - Katrina
Christmas Day Mudslide
Plainfield Tornado
Rogue Wave
Super Outbreak
***Bonus Disc***
Epic Conditions
Hawaii Big Wave Surfing

Product also comes with a 28 page booklet giving bios on TWC Storm Team meteorologists as well as different types of severe weather.

Now, for the stories themselves. Each "story" is about 25 minutes long and talks about different experiences involving fatal storms. It covers a lot of what was put on The Weather Channel through 2006 or so. It's quite informative and entertaining, though TWC seems to have a heavy hand with emotional impact on families. Lots of twisters and hurricanes with some floods, landslides, etc., but not as much footage of the storms themselves as I was hoping.

As for the product, be warned. This is a Madacy product. I picked it up because, with the price, you can't really go wrong. But the video is not the greatest, which took me back to the VCR days. Still, that can be overlooked, but the sound was quite awful in many spots. Nothing like hearing a Jim Cantore-sounding kazoo. Still, they do give you direct scene access, which not all Madacy product does. They rate it as "G", but parents, bear in mind that though not on screen, family deaths do occur, and the survivors do talk about it.

For 10+ hrs of storm coverage for the price, it's worth the disc issues, but not by much. 3.5 stars.

I bought this DVD set for my ten year old who loves this The Weather Channel series. He would watch it every chance he could get as he wants to be a meteorologist when he grows up. He loved the little short biographies of the Anchor crew that's included with this set.

This was an excellent buy for the money. one of the disc is defective but all the rest are fine.

Great product for storm lovers. Gave it as a gift and it was greatly appreciated.