Jason Ramsey
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This is just a quickly edited 2:30 minute montage of 41 minutes of footage that I shot two days after the tornado rolled through Enterprise.
A lot of it was very run and gun, raw style, shooting, because I wasn't allowed to be some of the places I was. The president had also come earlier in the day, so access was even more limited.
But, I managed to work my way around part of the city and capture some footage. I even managed to get into the media area at the High School where 8 kids died.
Enterprise is a city of somewhere around 30,000 people. The tornado path is apparently 8 miles long. The clips from the footage I shot are just from about a quarter mile stretch. I spent 4 hours on foot, walking around this part of the disaster area.
My mother is a nurse in Enterprise, and it missed her work by about 1/2 mile. Close enough for them to see it.
My brother's in-laws live about two blocks from the school. It barely missed them. They had twigs, 2x4's, and roofing shingles embedded in their yard. And, tin from the peanut mill that was about a mile away.
If this tornado had occurred on the weekend, or during the night, the death toll would probably have been in the hundreds. Just the small section I walked, I saw over a hundred houses that were just gone, or in a pile. I saw cars and other stuff in places where they shouldn't be.
Anyways, like I said, this was pretty quickly thrown togethor, and the music is just some royalty free stuff. I wasn't going for accuracy here, I just wanted to get some of this footage out there.
I'm working on a much bigger project now that will include a lot of the footage of the disaster area I shot, as well as some interviews with students who were in the school when the tornado rolled through. There are some wild stories there, but I'll save them for another time.
Footage was shot 720p/24pn for record time.
Right click it:
www.ramjetfilms.com/Tornado.mov
EDIT: Link updated. Just added some grain and grit, and some minor cc, for effect
Jason
A lot of it was very run and gun, raw style, shooting, because I wasn't allowed to be some of the places I was. The president had also come earlier in the day, so access was even more limited.
But, I managed to work my way around part of the city and capture some footage. I even managed to get into the media area at the High School where 8 kids died.
Enterprise is a city of somewhere around 30,000 people. The tornado path is apparently 8 miles long. The clips from the footage I shot are just from about a quarter mile stretch. I spent 4 hours on foot, walking around this part of the disaster area.
My mother is a nurse in Enterprise, and it missed her work by about 1/2 mile. Close enough for them to see it.
My brother's in-laws live about two blocks from the school. It barely missed them. They had twigs, 2x4's, and roofing shingles embedded in their yard. And, tin from the peanut mill that was about a mile away.
If this tornado had occurred on the weekend, or during the night, the death toll would probably have been in the hundreds. Just the small section I walked, I saw over a hundred houses that were just gone, or in a pile. I saw cars and other stuff in places where they shouldn't be.
Anyways, like I said, this was pretty quickly thrown togethor, and the music is just some royalty free stuff. I wasn't going for accuracy here, I just wanted to get some of this footage out there.
I'm working on a much bigger project now that will include a lot of the footage of the disaster area I shot, as well as some interviews with students who were in the school when the tornado rolled through. There are some wild stories there, but I'll save them for another time.
Footage was shot 720p/24pn for record time.
Right click it:
www.ramjetfilms.com/Tornado.mov
EDIT: Link updated. Just added some grain and grit, and some minor cc, for effect
Jason
