Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber and I am sitting here with James Harkid,
Anna Chazitzky and Andrew Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in a particular order here we go.
Starting with my fact, my fact this week is that in America you get traffic jams caused by people chasing tornadoes.
These are people who actively get in cars when they hear a tornado is out there in the fields and they try and track it and chase after it in buses,
in cars and so on and it used to be a very niche thing but then TV shows started happening and more and more people got into it.
It's still quite niche, isn't it?
Quite niche but big enough that it's clogging up the roads because thousands of people are doing it now.
And they're rural roads as well, right?
It's not like you can get there always, sometimes it's just in the middle of a field that the tornado is happening.
I don't really know much about tornadoes clearly.
I think they don't adhere to roads and fields and boundaries in general, I think they just go where they want.
Yes, true.
I met recently in America, someone in Shelbyville who was talking about training to become a storm chaser.
She does it for a living now and she was going to be one of these people who were going to look for them and it happened.
Her interest was sparked after her entire house was destroyed.
Wow, really?
Yes, so they all have these bunkers in America that they go into for tornado shelter and they don't have enough.
They're very angry because the government hasn't done enough about it.