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(SIREN WAILING)

MIKE: Wow. Two tropical cyclones
in a four-day period.

Holy crap.

Look at that eye now.

That's one of the most intense-looking
hurricanes I've ever chased.

Conditions are really gonna
start deteriorating here, aren't they?

Holy crap!

(BEEPING)

We got an extreme wind warning.

All hell is gonna break loose out here.

(LAUGHING)

Oh, here it comes.

Holy shit!

Total whiteout conditions.

Reed, this building's coming apart
with all the glass panels.

Totally getting gutted.

REED: We're getting debris!
We're taking debris!

MIKE: Holy shit!

I'm gonna have to hop in with you.

We got a really big gamble here.

Hang tight! Hang tight, Reed!
We got debris coming.

REED: Holy shit! Ah!

MALE NEWSCASTER: Turning now to Louisiana,

where the state is bracing for impact
from two major storms,

headed right for the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Marco is barreling towards
the coast,

with Tropical Storm Laura not far behind.

Marco is expected to make a direct hit
on the State of Louisiana tomorrow.

MIKE: There he is!

I never remember having two hurricanes
in the Gulf at the same time.

It's never happened in our lifetime.

REED: We gotta get into position fast.

This is a once in a lifetime setup.

We've got two potential hurricanes

building simultaneously
in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are en route to Mississippi
where the first storm,

Marco, is projected to hit
in the next 24 hours.

We can have a little bit of a rendezvous

when we get down to Bay St. Louis
and then figure out a game plan.

We're ready to grab the bull by the horns
here and intercept the one-two punch.

-MIKE: We'll see you soon.
-All right. Never stop chasing!

-There's Don!
-(HONKING)

He's my equipment guru.

He's got a weather station

that we're gonna mount to the roof
of the Dominator 4.

How's it going?

-Good. Are you ready for this?
-REED: Yeah, definitely.

DON: Holy shit.

All the hail dents?
That's badass. (LAUGHS)

REED: Yeah, I love the hail dents.

This is Dominator 4.

Brand new in 2018.

And I've absolutely annihilated it.

Hail dents all over the place,

took out my sunroof as well,

and that's how we got this
beautiful orange aluminum plate.

Oh, it looks like we're gonna need

a couple more strips of duct tape
here on the bumper.

It'll be fine.

I'm just trying to keep
Dominator 4 together,

but I have faith she's gonna
make it through it.

There it is.

DON: Man, that's badass.

You're gonna get that into an eye,
maybe twice this week.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

REED: This is the subsonic sensor.

It may not look like much,

but it's one of the most sensitive
microbarometers in existence.

It measures pressure, as well as
sound waves that human ears cannot detect,

to basically create a fingerprint
of a hurricane.

Being able to compare that fingerprint
to other similar storms

can help us predict how the most dangerous
hurricanes will behave in the future.

DON: You're plugged in. You're good to go.

REED: Dang, look at that!

So, this is a cup anemometer.

And as this rotates,

this will measure the wind speed
going up and over the vehicle.

What kind of wind speeds
do you think that can handle?

That's rated up to 150.

REED: Which would mean
our storm is a Category 4,

verging on a Category 5 intensity.

So if we're experiencing
wind speeds that powerful,

the data we're gonna be collecting
will be incredibly valuable.

We've got our science mission dialed in.

We're gonna have the storm covered.

We are the boots on the ground collecting
data directly inside these storms.

That's why the data we collect
is so valuable,

because it's collected at ground level

and not from a satellite
thousands of miles away.

Our plan is to intercept
both Marco and Laura.

We're not gonna pick
and choose on this one.

We're just gonna intercept both of them.

I'm just pulling into Tallahassee now.

(EXHALES) Okay.

Can't tell you how many times
I've done this.

(RATTLING)

This is like gold.

This is a very fluent situation.
A lot of variables.

All we can do is prepare the best we can

with the supplies and then just let
Mother Nature take its course,

and we'll just follow it wherever it goes.

Man, I'll tell you what,
me and this truck have been through a lot.

This is the H.E.R.V.

This is a 2001 Chevy Tahoe that I've
customized to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane.

It has window cages to
protect us from flying debris,

a three-inch lift kit
to drive us through the flooding,

and enough cargo space
for all the essentials.

That's my baby right there,

25 hurricanes,
16 years of hurricane chasing.

There's a lot of history with this truck.

Holy shit!

When shit hits the fan,
you wanna be in the H.E.R.V.

Definitely unprecedented type of setup
we're looking at.

Two hurricanes within 24 hours, possibly.

It just kinda shows the weather
has been changing.

Global air and water temperatures
are on the rise.

Ocean temperatures of 80 degrees
or higher feed hurricanes.

When warm air rises off the ocean,

it is then replaced by cooler air
that is then warmed.

As this cycle repeats, a storm begins to
build into the atmosphere.

When strong winds collide
with the storm clouds,

the storm begins to spin around
the central eye.

When the circulating winds
reach 74 miles per hour,

the storm becomes a Category 1 hurricane.

As a hurricane's wind speeds increase.

It grows larger and more violent.

All the way up to a catastrophic
and deadly Category 5.

Whether it's a Category 1 or a Category 5,

we have everything we need
for a hurricane mission.

We gotta keep moving.

I'd like to order a number one,
the combo, large.

Thank you!

(SPEAKING)

MIKE: Yeah.
PRODUCER: No kidding!

Well, I gotta stock up
for a couple days here.

Could be the last warm meal for at least,
I don't know, four or five days.

The next stop will be hurricane Marco.

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: Hurricane Marco
is expected to make landfall tomorrow.

Louisiana is expected to be slammed
by heavy rain and coastal flooding.

And tonight, they are getting ready
by ordering mandatory evacuations

in some of the most vulnerable,
low-lying areas.

REED: There's a mass evacuation out
of the path of this dangerous hurricane.

With less than 24 hours until landfall.

Everybody's trying to get away
from the Gulf Coast.

And that's one common thing that you see
whenever you chase a hurricane.

A flood of traffic leaving, and you're
the only one going the other direction.

But we're hurricane chasers,

we go the other way
when everybody else is evacuating.

So this is a hurricane house that
we've reserved to try to intercept Marco.

I think we're in the perfect spot
for landfall.

If Marco were to make
a direct landfall right here,

we definitely will be able to be
well above the storm surge.

And the storm pushes water
out of the Gulf and onto the land.

This area was ravaged
by a record storm surge

for Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

A 25-foot wall of water came through here.

People that survived
were clinging to the trees...

clinging to the top of structures
that were still remaining.

A lot of people lost their lives.
And they're still recovering here.

(VEHICLE HONKING)

Hello!

MIKE: There he is!
REED: How's it going?

MIKE: It's a little late, ain't it?

(LAUGHS)

Marco has a potential for winds
74 to 110 miles an hour.

Extensive considerable roof damage
to sturdy buildings.

Plan for life-threatening wind of
equivalent Cat 1 or 2 hurricane force.

MIKE: Well, we're gonna
have to start early,

so I'm gonna grab my gear, bring it in
and get a little bit of sleep.

Yeah, I'll just stay up
all night reloading this satellite image.

-Make sure we don't miss anything.
-Okay. Don't miss anything.

REED: All right!

So, we got about 48 hours
here of insanity ahead.

This is unprecedented to have two storms
in the Gulf like this.

It's gonna be absolute hell on Earth.

We gotta be dialed in.

There's not gonna be another opportunity
like this.

No, we cannot afford to make mistakes.

REED: Things have changed
dramatically overnight.

It's just a very messy tropical
cyclone setup.

Oh, man.

REED: Last night, Hurricane Marco collided

with a strong wind current coming up
from the southwest.

And now it's weakening rapidly.

That's why it's so sunny out here,

even though we're very close
to the center of this tropical cyclone.

(SEAGULLS CAWING)

Ten miles an hour.

Ugh!

What a weird situation,
having two tropical cyclones in the Gulf.

MIKE: Yeah.

REED: Just feels like two monster storms
can't share that small of a space.

MIKE: Right.

Mother Nature throws curve balls
all the time.

Yep. Especially these days.

Well, I think it's gonna clear the way for

possibly Hurricane Laura
to be even stronger.

Once Laura hits this warm water,
it's gonna intensify rapidly.

You can almost feel the energy out here.

MIKE: Yeah, it's gonna explode
when it hits the stuff.

REED: It's time to get ready,
Laura's on the way.

Hurricane Laura is expected
to rapidly intensify to a major,

potentially destructive Category 4
hurricane here.

MIKE: This is the Windy Palms device.
It's a wind anemometer that I built.

It's meant to record highly accurate
wind speeds

directly in the path of a hurricane
as it's making landfall.

The trick is deploying the device
in the perfect spot on the coast

before the storm is too close
to make things difficult.

-We gotta go, man!
-REED: Yeah.

Feeling good. Energized.

Hurricane Laura is gaining strength.

It's gonna be the real deal.

An absolute buzzsaw of a storm,

and looks like it's heading straight
for Holly Beach, Louisiana.

That's where we're targeting today.

Basically like a slow-moving freight train

that you've gotta get right in the path
of it, so you're constantly lining it up,

eyeballing where it's gonna go.

MIKE: Got a stampede or something.

(CATTLE MOOING)

That's cattle, isn't it?

MIKE: You have to be kidding me!

We don't have time for this!

Hey, look at 'em all coming behind.

REED: Right now we've got cattle
that are getting evacuated

because of the very high storm
surge that's gonna be coming ahead.

So, these ranchers are moving these cattle
to higher ground right now.

(CATTLE MOOING)

Ah, man!

I don't know how long this is gonna take.

We have a small window of opportunity

to find the right place to deploy
the Windy Palms device.

Every minute we waste

could mean the difference between
a mission success or failure.

(CATTLE MOOING)

REED: So, here's the hurricane
intensifying rapidly,

and it is heading straight up
to Louisiana.

We might be done, honestly.

This might botch up
the whole hurricane intercept.

MIKE: This is so damn aggravating.

Yeah, this is killing me.

Starting to transition from being patient

to, uh, about to blow a gasket.

Wonder if that police officer is directing
people off to the left up here?

Should we try to take it,
get in front of it?

Yeah, let's try. What the hell?

Reed may have found a shortcut here.

Get us outta here.

Try this out.

(REED SPEAKING)

I hope so!

REED: It's open.

Gate's open.

(MIKE SPEAKING)

Woo! Yes!

Thank God!

MIKE: See, we got around
that little hiccup.

I'm sure there'll be plenty more
before this day's over.

REED: (OVER PHONE)
The storm surge is coming up fast!

I'm just starting to really feel
some anxiety here.

I'm a little concerned,
I don't see any palm trees around here.

The time is getting crunched on the window
for when we can deploy the Windy Palms.

The powerful winds from Laura
are pushing water ahead of the storm,

that's the storm surge.
It's literally changing the coastline.

In order for the Windy Palms
to get the best data,

we need to mount it in a palm tree.

Because of their elasticity,

palm trees are often the only thing
left standing after a storm.

We need to find a palm tree

before the surge comes in
and blankets the area.

Ah, these might do.

What I like about here
is it's right on the water,

so we'll have unobstructed wind
ripping right through here.

REED: There's a squall line about
to come in this outer band.

MIKE: I know. Yeah.

That's gonna bring the surge up,
so we don't have a lotta time.

MIKE: Yeah. No,
we gotta get this one up. All right.

REED: Gonna put the performance
strap on my Crocs.

MIKE: Argh! Wait a minute.

REED: We're in big trouble, aren't we?

How much time do you think
we have to deploy?

MIKE: Uh, 15, 20 minutes.

REED: We gotta keep moving.

MIKE: I'm gonna start this.

REED: We're in the death zone right now.

If we stayed here and tried
to ride out this storm,

this is where we would die.

There's gonna be a 25-foot wall of water
coming in here soon,

so we gotta get this thing deployed.

The road's flooding.

MIKE: What am I looking for?

REED: Stay focused! You got this!

-We're gonna get this thing deployed.
-MIKE: Okay.

Even if it's our last deployment,
this thing's getting mounted.

We are pushing it really close.
All in the name of science.

Good thing the clamp's up.

They're evacuating.
Look at it, these cattle trucks.

They're getting outta here.

(DRILLING MACHINE WHIRRING)

The road's flooding.

We gotta go now!

-The marsh floods before the beach, Mike.
-MIKE: I know.

-Phew!
-You got blood coming out of your ear.

MIKE: Do I?
REED: Yeah! Well, that's hardcore.

That's pure dedication
to the science right there.

MIKE: There it is!
REED: Nice! Let's get outta here!

MIKE: Let's get out of here!

Ah.

REED: Now, as the storm approaches,
the tide's gonna continue to rise,

and we wanna be able to stay mobile
for this storm.

MIKE: It's go time!

REED: That's why we gotta get
outta here before this road floods over.

After Laura makes landfall at Holly Beach,

it's gonna move inland, heading directly
towards Lake Charles, Louisiana.

It's a high enough elevation
to get out of the flood zone,

and a perfect place to deploy the subsonic
sensor and the Dominator 4 anemometer.

So, there's the outer edges.

Look how close it is.
We're about to get the outer edge soon.

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: The monster Category 4
storm is growing stronger by the minute.

Tonight, Laura is on her way to becoming
a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane

when she barrels into land
just a few hours from now.

Cat 5 sunset here.

Any time you're about to intercept
a hurricane

this powerful and this intense,
you know there's gonna be loss of life,

potentially mass loss of life.

And you always wonder too
if this could end up being my last chase,

when you're driving
into a storm like this.

We're definitely gonna ride it out here
at Lake Charles.

REED: It is gonna be a very, very
dangerous night tonight for this area.

(ALARM BEEPING)

MIKE: We got an extreme wind warning.

This is no joke.

A Cat 5 is the most
powerful storm on Earth.

And we have Cat 5 potential here.

Whoa!

You see that branch almost hit the truck?

REED: For the subsonic sensor,

I've never deployed this before,

and so I'm a little bit nervous
about deploying this.

I wanna find the absolutely
perfect location.

Kind of an obscure location that's not
impacted by too much wind,

but one that we can also access.

There's a church.

...elevation here,
do you think this is gonna flood?

MIKE: It's about 18 feet here
according to my GPS.

This might not be a high enough elevation.

REED: Go down to the side
of this Mexican restaurant here.

Want me to shine some lights on it?

-Kind of in that corner?
-REED: Yeah.

-This is a really kinda calm area.
-MIKE: Yeah.

It's flat there.
You could set it right on top.

REED: Yeah, I think that'll be perfect.

There it is, ready to go.

Let's see what happens.

MIKE: Look how fast these clouds
are coming in, Reed, overhead.

REED: We've gotta deploy
and get away from it.

MIKE: We gotta be quick,
'cause this surge is gonna come in.

REED: Got it.

You've really got to improvise
in these situations.

But I think the sensor should be safe here
at ground zero and get a good reading.

Remember this spot!

Holy crap!

So, we're right there
where that blue dot is.

There's the eyewall coming in, that ring.

We're literally that far away from
an intense 150-mile an hour wind,

right there.

That's one of the most intense-looking
hurricanes I've ever chased.

(WIND HOWLING)

(REED LAUGHING)

MIKE: Starting to get it now, Reed!

Yup. Here we go!

You can hear the roar.

The approach of the eyewall
just to the south.

MIKE: Whoa!

There's gonna be a lot
of debris flying through here.

It's about to get really bad around here.

It's coming, Mike!

There it is!

Get in the car! Get in the car!

That was probably a gust of maybe 85, 90.

This thing has 150 in it,

so that's only about half the wind speed
we're gonna see.

REED: We're gonna need to
reposition this anemometer

to get it in the perfect spot.

Maybe about a mile to the northeast.

Holy crap!

Conditions are really gonna
start deteriorating here, aren't they?

MIKE: Yeah, real fast.

REED: We are gonna get directly
inside the eye of this storm here.

MIKE: Oh, there goes the lights.

We just lost all the power.

REED: Here it comes.

MIKE: Yeah, it's coming in now.

Big time.

REED: Ramping up.

It's gonna come in waves,
get stronger and stronger and stronger,

then once we get near the eyewall,

all hell is gonna break loose out here.

Oh, here it comes.

Holy shit!

We're getting extreme winds now.

We're in the eyewall of Hurricane Laura.

Look at these winds out here.

Total whiteout conditions.

I can't see anything.

Oh, my gosh!

Look at these easterlies.
These are big time.

MIKE: Look at it go! Look at it go!

(REED SPEAKING)

112 miles an hour!
Breaking into Category 3 winds.

MIKE: It's getting intense now.

Whoa!

REED: 126!

Listen to that roar!

Damn!

MIKE: Look at that! The extreme winds
coming through here right now.

Oh, my God! Look at that tree!

We got over 100-mile an hour winds.

What are your thoughts, Mike?

Uh, we're about to ramp up
even more in a second here.

REED: There's a clearing a block over

where we can get
unobstructed wind readings.

MIKE: Okay, I'm coming.

This is getting intense now.

Yeah, we're about to get
in the worse part.

REED: Yep, here it comes.
Big debris coming in.

MIKE: There's glass flying everywhere.

There's a lot of glass
starting to come at us.

Oh, I got hit with some debris!
More debris.

REED: Man, this area is perfect.
We're getting good wind data here.

MIKE: Hey, Reed, this building's
coming apart with all the glass panels.

They're getting blown through right now.

Totally getting gutted.

Holy crap!

REED: And that's a skyscraper
right there. Flying glass.

135-mile an hour winds!

We're up to Cat 4 now, Mike!

The winds are incredible here.

Look at the power of the wind.

This is the power of
Mother Nature right here.

(GLASS SHATTERING)

It's ripping this building to pieces.

We're getting debris! We're taking debris!

MIKE: Holy shit!

Look out! Hold on!

Now, we're in the eyewall
right now, getting nailed by concrete.

Thank God we're in the H.E.R.V.

REED: It's working! We're recording data!

We're in the perfect position here.

-I'm gonna have to hop in with you.
-All right.

REED: I'm gonna pull up
right to your right.

Oh, look at that sign.
It's just flopping right there.

MIKE: We gotta really be careful here!

Oh! What is that? Why is the wind coming
the other way now?

Whoa!

Hang tight! Hang tight, Reed!
You got debris coming.

REED: Holy shit! Ah!

MIKE: Get in there. Gotta get down.
We're gonna get hit by something.

REED: Oh.
MIKE: Oh, shit!

REED: You have updated radar?

MIKE: Once we get into this black area,

which is the hollow part
of the storm, the eye,

it's gonna get completely calm in there.

We're that blue dot.
We're just about to enter it.

(INDISTINCT BEEPING)

Now, this is the calm
of the eye right here.

Still just a little bit gusty at times,

but you can look straight up

and see those clear patches of air,

just some low clouds passing in here,
through the eye.

Incredible! Incredible to be in the eye
of this Category 4 storm.

Holy cow!

REED: Whenever you're covering
a storm like this

and trying to learn
what makes these storms tick,

you always have to keep it
in the back of your mind

that people are gonna lose their lives
from this storm.

You just hope that everybody had heeded
all those evacuation warnings,

but you know that there must have been
people that stayed behind

and had to endure these terrifying
conditions all night long.

(DISTANT ALARM BLARING)

Big time damage up and down
this main drag.

MIKE: Debris laying in the road,
pieces of roofs, insulation, ceiling.

All the alarms are going off everywhere.

REED: You can see right into
someone's living room there.

This is a building that was
completely gutted.

Now, that we're in the calm of the eye,

let's take a look at some of the damage.

Lightning! We're still getting
lightning in this thing!

Don't have a lot of time.

So, right now, we're on
the southern edge of the eye,

about to get impacted by the strong
backside of this thing.

Probably gusting well over
130 miles an hour,

once again, except going in the exact
opposite direction.

My God! I hope that nobody was in there.

All these structures that were weakened
in the front eyewall are now gonna get

blown apart in the back eyewall.

MIKE: Watch that sheet metal, Reed!

(MIKE SPEAKING)

REED: Yeah.

Now, this is it.
The back eyewall's coming.

MIKE: Let's go!

REED: We gotta get back
and check on the sensor,

and make sure it's secure enough
to survive the back eyewall.

Goodbye, Dominator 4.

We'll come back for you!

REED: Yeah, that was an intense eyewall.

One of the most intense I've ever
experienced, probably the most intense.

Sometimes the back side
of these eyes are even worse.

It's worse. Yeah, I've found that too.

Let's see if it's there first.

There it is.

REED: If we can tape it up there,

then we could sample
the back eyewall as well.

MIKE: Okay.

We don't have much time, Reed!

REED: Man, you can hear
that back eyewall coming.

MIKE: Hold that end.

(REED SPEAKING)

REED: This is as DIY as it gets.

MIKE: You feel those winds
shifting around?

REED: Oh, yeah.

That back eyewall's gonna pick up
any second.

(BLEEP)

MIKE: Whoa!

REED: That's no good!

Hey, this whole thing's coming down!

MIKE: Holy shit!
We gotta get out of here quick!

REED: Look out!

REED: We got a roof that just collapsed

about 20 feet away
from the subsonic sensor.

Let's get out of here.
It's coming from this way.

Oh, shit!

MIKE: Get in!

Oh! Ah, I got hit by something.

We're getting wind
from all different directions here.

REED: No visibility!

Probably gonna blow a window out.

MIKE: Flying debris here.

It's not done yet!

-(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
-REED: Whoa!

-Oh!
-All kinds of debris! Oh!

Trash can!

It's getting a little bit calmer now.

Should we go get the sensor
and check it out?

Yeah, let's go get the subsonic sensor.

If this thing survived the eyewall,
the data's gonna be unprecedented.

Oh! (EXCLAIMING)

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

MIKE: Here it is, Reed!
REED: There it is!

MIKE: Heck, yeah!

REED: So, it measured the front eyewall,

the eye, and the back eyewall,
all on infrasound, so,

all around major success
for the science mission,

especially if we can recover
the Windy Palms probe.

(INSECTS CHIRRING)

(CAWING)

FEMALE NEWSCASTER: Laura made landfall
as a Category 4 hurricane.

With sustained winds of
150 miles per hour.

It is the strongest storm ever to hit
Southwest Louisiana.

NORAH: The death toll from Hurricane Laura
more than doubled today, to at least 14.

The scope of the destruction
is overwhelming.

Hundreds of thousands
are still without power or water,

and some may not get it back for weeks.

MIKE: So, we're a little bit more
than halfway down to the coast.

We're going to retrieve
the Windy Palms Project.

REED: It'll be interesting to see
what Holly Beach looks like down here.

Yeah, it should be right up here, Mike.
Right there.

MIKE: There it is! Right there!
It's still there, Reed!

REED: Nice!
MIKE: That's right up and down!

Thought it got pushed over.

Wow!

MIKE: Let's go!

Look at the surge.

All of the grass here is laying down
from south to north,

and that shows you that powerful surge
that came in here.

But we are right here with Windy Palms.

We're taking down the data pack,
an incredibly valuable dataset is in here.

This thing was in the heart of the most
powerful part of the hurricane

and we did it.

Woo!

(LAUGHTER)

It's coming down, baby!

MIKE: You got that side?
REED: Yeah.

MIKE: I can't believe we got it!

I can't wait to see what kind of winds
this thing recorded.

Woo!

-We did it, Reed!
-REED: Yes!

(BOTH LAUGHING EXCITEDLY)

REED: Now, we just gotta see
if Dominator 4 survived.

MIKE: Oh, we're getting into the area now.

We're almost to ground zero.

REED: Man, look at this damage.

MIKE: It's very sobering, isn't it?
REED: Yeah, it is.

And this is downtown Lake Charles.

This is what happens when a Category 4
hurricane hits a populated area.

Just mass destruction
as far as you can see.

Holy cow! This is insane damage here.

Look how it's twisted up.

So, this is a foundation right here.

This is a structure that was
completely leveled.

You can even see some
floor tiles right there.

That could be where the bathroom
was located.

And these are big, brick buildings.
Quite sturdy buildings, too.

And this is just mass destruction.

Damn, look at this! These poor people.

MIKE: Man, everywhere you look.

This road looks a lot different
than when we first drove down.

Damn, look at that building, Reed.

We were right here when the eyewall
blew that thing apart.

Man, that's incredible power.

REED: There it is!
MIKE: Where?

REED: Dominator 4.
MIKE: Oh, my gosh, there it is!

-It survived.
-REED: There it is!

MIKE: Let's check it out,
see if the windows are blown out or not.

REED: Take a look at this thing.

Oh, look at the mirror!

MIKE: Oh, your mirror's gone.

REED: This is a sheet metal scratch
right here.

Like claw marks to the side.

MIKE: Man, I can't believe
the Dominator survived once again.

REED: Sure did.
MIKE: It's crazy!

REED: It's gonna purr once again.

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

-Oh, yeah, there it is.
-MIKE: Started right up.

REED: Beautiful! It's back!

It's hard to call this a success
surrounded by damage like this.

But at least we did record data.
The science mission was a total success.

We've got a trifecta of data
inside Hurricane Laura.

MIKE: 154 miles an hour.
I cannot believe that.

That's basically a Category 5 wind gust.

REED: So this could be
the strongest wind ever measured

inside of a hurricane at ground level?

MIKE: Yeah. We deployed it
in the perfect place.

REED: Yeah.

This is why we do what we do.

This is one of the craziest
hurricane experiences

I've ever had in my life after
20 years of chasing tropical cyclones.

And it just seems like we keep getting
this new breed of storm

over, and over, and over again.

These storms are leaving behind such
damage, loss of life and property.

It's just that much more motivating

to keep doing what we're doing and try
to better understand these storms.

I mean, who knows what's gonna
happen next.

MIKE: We have a hurricane
that could be possibly coming in

the next six or seven days.

I mean, we're talking in
one week from now.

We could be covering another hurricane.

And we're not even to the peak
of the season yet.

REED: This year, hurricanes are
happening more frequently

and intensifying at an incredible rate.

We are on track for the most active
hurricane season on record.

And you have to wonder
if this is the new normal.

So our goal remains to gather
as much data as we can

to better understand these trends.

If this is the new reality,
we will need to be prepared

as storms continue to become
more powerful,

more frequent, and more dangerous.