Reed Timmer has weathered his justifiable share of storms, and all the time has his sidekick with him, a 5-pound Yorkshire terrier.
The skilled excessive storm chaser isn’t with out his canine, Gizmo. Gizmo has been chasing storms for many of her life and at 14 years old, she’s seen so many who it might land her within the Guinness Book of World Records.
“I believe it’s a file the variety of tornados she’s seen,” Timmer advised Newsweekincluding that Gizmo has seen greater than 200 tornados and 10 hurricanes. “We are contemplating making use of for the Guinness Book of World Records. She was born into the storm chasing life.”
Gizmo has traveled with Timmer via 48 states and a number of other Canadian provinces the place she has ridden in armored autos to intercept extreme storms, together with tornados and Nor’easter blizzards. She was even within the eyewall of Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida, in 2018.
Reed Timmer
With all these storms, there’s certain to be an in depth name, and Gizmo has had a number of. In 2019, Gizmo, Timmer and his crew have been chasing a twister close to McCook, Nebraska. The pair grew to become separated from their armored automobile and have been consumed by a particles cloud because the twister quickly intensified.
Timmer tucked Gizmo, who was sporting a pink forged for a damaged toe, into his arm like she was a soccer and turned his again in opposition to the wind to maintain her protected.
Gizmo was even hit by a twister at Timmer’s home in Oklahoma when he was following a distinct storm in 2015, however the 5-pound Yorkie emerged unscathed.
Timmer, who works for AccuWeather as a meteorologist and storm chaser, starred in Discovery Channel’s Storm Chaser in 2008. Like Timmer, Gizmo has her personal tv credit, as properly. She made appearances in National Geographic’s Storm Risingwhich adopted Timmer and Mike Theiss in 2021. She can be well-loved by Timmer’s followers and infrequently makes an look on his social media pages.
Where most dogs are identified to change into nervous in a storm, Gizmo stays fearless via all of it. She even appears to benefit from the extreme storms, Timmer stated.
Reed Timmer
“She loves storms, I believe, as a result of she will really feel our pleasure,” he stated. “There’s a way of calm after we are on the precise storm, and I believe, possibly, she will sense that.”
Timmer, who has been chasing storms since 1996, adopted Gizmo when she was nearly a month old. He began bringing Gizmo alongside when she was 2 years old as a result of she “simply wished to go so dangerous” and would beg to go together with Timmer each time he’d step out the door.
“She’s my life companion,” Timmer stated. “She’s the one storm-chasing canine I’ve ever had.”
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