Author: Brantley Hargrove
“The Man Who Caught the Storm” offers insight into the life and death saga of one of history’s greatest storm chasers. It is a tale of obsession, ingenuity, and the race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon — the tornado.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.
Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life.