Michael Dennis Starbuck

Shout out to Joel Bissell and MLive for this video. This is insane. Granted, I know Union City got hit way worse, but still. https://youtu.be/uJJKWCrweDg?si=8llwf...

4 days ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

This Facebook page (also in their twitter/x account) clearly doesn't realize that there's a lot of storm chasers from Michigan storm chasers and quite a few people had to witness some horrific devastation from both the Union City tornado and the Three Rivers tornado. I have no hate or ill will towards Chicago and Midwest storm chasers, but what they don't realize is that there's a lot of people that were chasing the storm, including people from Michigan storm chasers, that had to witness horrific devastation in Three Rivers and Union City. I watched a few videos from a few different storm chasers that were tracking either the Union City Tornado or Three Rivers tornado or both who came out and said that they were devastated by what they saw and were saddened about what had happened.

Storm chasing isn't just about who can get the closest to a tornado or who could find the best route to a tornado or what not. In fact in most cases, that's not the main subject matter with storm chasing. I don't claim myself to be an expert when it comes to storm chasing and I'm not here to say that I know everything about storm chasing because I don't have all the answers about how storm chasing works and all this and that, and I probably don't plan to ever have all that. That. As much as I am absolutely big into weather, sharing information about weather ever so often (kind of like how people are when it comes to politics, world problems, or other subjects matters like that), recording weather every chance I can, maybe chasing it if possible, and I'm not here to claim myself to be an expert at, but storm chasing isn't a main focus on who can get the closest to a tornado and who can do this or that better when it comes to storm chasing. Talking about where a tornado can happen and if one may be possible in a certain area is one thing. But sometimes, you never know what all can happen when it comes to tornadoes.

I've recorded weather on many occasions because it's something that I enjoy doing and I've been doing it for going on 12 years now because it's something that I like to do, especially when it comes to uploading it to my YouTube channel. But there have been times where I have recorded a bad storm either while on the road, at home, or somewhere else and something unexpected happened.

I'm not here to sit there and tell people how they should or shouldn't feel As that's not what I like to spend my time doing, and like I said, I have no hate, ill will, or massive judgment towards Chicago and Midwest storm chasers by any means as I do respect and support what they have done on many occasions, but this is just me voicing my opinion. I personally thought that what they posted wasn't the brightest thought in the book. we all have our fair share of judgments at times as sometimes I do as well, but it's not worth getting yourself into a bad situation, possibly getting yourself hurt or even worse, when it comes to storm chasing. There's a lot of people out there that are pretty cautious about what they're doing when it comes to storm chasing.

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 4

Michael Dennis Starbuck

A few more things that I forgot to mention in my previous post on here about the tornadoes that occurred in Edwardsburg, Three Rivers, and Union City, I do want to mention that I did record the storm that did produce the tornadoes.

I didn't record any tornadoes unfortunately as I was working in Niles, but there was quite a thunderstorm that did go through Niles before it produced the three tornadoes. The storm wasn't way too severe where I was at, but there were times where it did get bad. Lots of thunder, lightning, and there was also times where the wind did pick up. It wasn't the craziest storm that I have ever recorded by any means, but there were times where it did get crazy. I didn't record too much because like I said, I was working on a house in Niles, so I wasn't able to get a whole lot of time to myself to record the storm unfortunately. But I do have videos of it and I will try and get those videos uploaded as soon as possible.

There was also another storm that I recorded later on as I was heading home from work. There were times where that storm itself got crazy. There was a time I had to pull over because the storm got pretty bad and the defroster in my truck wasn't working the best, making it hard for me to see what was ahead. So therefore, I had to pull over at one point. But I definitely did take a lot of videos of that storm. I will definitely try and get videos of that storm uploaded to my YouTube channel as soon as possible as well.

Considering that today's storms caused some pretty bad tornadoes here in Michigan, there may be a good chance that I will do a storm documentary of the storms I recorded today, just like I did for the storms that occurred on March 30th, 2025 and May 15th, 2025. I don't know when I will get to putting that storm documentary together, but it is something that I am considering doing. Because I am considering on trying to see about maybe driving over to Three Rivers after things settle down a bit to try and record what I can of. Whatever damage is left if I am not able to do that, I still will do a storm documentary video, I'll just have to go with whatever information I can find. I do have some family that are supposed to pass through Three Rivers tomorrow on their way to Bronson/Coldwater area. So I'm hoping that I can get them to take some videos or pictures and send them to me, so that way I can include that for my storm documentary video. I don't really want to use anybody else's videos because I don't want YouTube or anybody online going after me for using their stuff. I might use some photos and try and credit those that the photos came from, but I'm not going to use other people's videos, unless if I'm giving permission otherwise.

I will also try and do a live stream video sometime in the next few days to talk about today's storms and tornadoes. I would do it tonight, but I'm really not up for talking right now as I had a long day at work today. That and I want to try and make sure I gather up any accurate information that I can find before I go live. I don't go live often because I have a hard time focusing on what I'm talking about when I get comments that come in at the same time, but it is something that I'm going to try and do.

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

Michael Dennis Starbuck

In case if anybody on here missed any of the shorts videos that I uploaded earlier today, Michigan definitely took a hit from some tornadoes today. Two of them were pretty bad. For the first tornado, as far as I'm aware, that happened in Edwardsburg, which was about 15 to 20 minutes or so from where I was working in Niles. The second one occurred in Three Rivers and I believe they said that that tornado went through a few other areas as well, possibly Mendon. And last but not least, Union City.

As far as I'm aware, I haven't heard anything major about the Edwardsburg tornado, but that is something that I am keeping my eyes on and I am trying to gather information about that tornado. There hasn't been a whole lot of information that I found about that tornado, other than pictures I've been seeing on Facebook and a few news medias that have spoken about that tornado, such as a new station out of South Bend and another news station based out of Detroit. That tornado was probably the least strongest tornado that happened out of the bunch as far as I'm aware, but that information can change as I am still trying to gather information about that tornado.

For The Three Rivers tornado, that tornado turned out to be a strong and destructive tornado as it started off right by a Menards store ripping the roof off of that store and caving in some of the walls at that store. Not to mention, it also destroyed or damaged quite a few other businesses nearby. From some of the research that I saw, I believe they said that that tornado ended up going right by Mendon as well and did some damage in that area. I'm not 100% sure on how the damage is throughout the rest of the town as most of the photos and videos I have seen about that tornado were taken on the west side of town near Menards, Meijer, Home Depot, and a few other stores and businesses in that area. From some of the speculations that I heard about that tornado, people are saying that that tornado may have been an f2 or maybe stronger.

The third tornado that took place in Michigan today is the Union City tornado. That tornado did quite a bit of damage and even knocked quite a few houses clean off of their foundations, especially near Union Lake. A tornado could be seen going right over part of Union Lake and even went through parts of Union City as well. It did quite a bit of damage to houses, flipped over cars, and many other things. From some of the research that I saw about this tornado, there were people speculating that the Union City tornado was much more stronger than the Three Rivers tornado, but others say that that is not confirmed at this time. But the Union City tornado was pretty strong and it was pretty capable of knocking homes clean off of their foundations.

As far as I know with the tornadoes that happened today, there were four people that have unfortunately lost their life and many others injured. I'm not 100% sure exactly how many people were reported injured, but as far as the casualty count goes, that number sits at 4 as of the time I type this statement.

With all that being sad, my heart absolutely aches for everybody that lost their home, their business, their job, or even a loved one from today's storms in Michigan. There were quite a few other states prior to this storm coming to Michigan where tornadoes were happening as well, but as of Michigander, my main focus right now is with Michigan, but I do feel for those in other states that have lost their life to tornadic weather recently as well. Things like this are things that I would never wish to happen to anybody. As much as I am real big into weather and watching people chase storms, it absolutely saddens me that there are people that lose their life, their homes, or anything else and weather like this. This situation is not a laughing matter and my heart absolutely aches for everybody affected by these storms. My thoughts and prayers go out to everybody affected big time and may Jesus be with those who were affected.

I want to give out a massive shout out to Michigan Storm Chasers ‪@MIStormChasers‬ , some of the local news stations, and all of our first responders that had to respond to everything that happened throughout these tornadoes occurring today.

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

Michael Dennis Starbuck

I totally agree that Caledonia needs this! I've passed through Caledonia on M-37 during their rush hours quite a few times and I can definitely tell you that traffic does get backed up through there on many occasions. Just gonna suck to pass through there while they have the road work going on, but let's hope it's worth it after it's all said and done. https://youtu.be/ZGrIMWeTOWU?si=gfhBr...

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Guess I'll have to remind myself not to buy one of these pry bars from Menards again anytime soon. There's been a few occasions where I've bent these things while prying on things, but never had this happen. Only had this for a few months and haven't used it much.

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1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Michael Dennis Starbuck

As much as I like the main version of SOMT and I think a lot of people misuse Ai on a lot of things, this actually doesn't sound bad. https://youtu.be/M01EFVEPEUs?si=TWzUP...

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

It ain't much, but we were able to stand the mailbox back up with a piece of one by and some wiring at a place we were working at for my grandpa. 😂

Kept joking around about how amazed I was about it not being the newspaper box that got knocked over, considering those are notorious for being knocked over.

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Looks like we have quite a few nice days coming up for early March. Shout-out to ‪@MIStormChasers‬ for the information!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

Michael Dennis Starbuck

Hey guys, hope everybody had a good Friday to remember and I hope everybody also had a good work week to remember as well. I know I said that I was going to try and have a flashback Friday video up today, but because I had been pretty busy this past week, I wasn't able to get through putting a big video together. I did try and screen record some videos that I've taken of a trip that I wanted to talk about from a few years ago, but none of the videos were turning out the best and for some reason, the apps that I use to add music into the clips we're giving me issues the past few days, so I ended up not getting to putting the video together, which I do apologize for.

While I would eventually like to start a flashback Friday subject for this channel, it's something I'm probably just going to put aside for now and just do it when I have nothing better to do and I'm not busy with things.

That being said, whenever I can't get to doing flashback Friday videos, I might do a different subject of a video and probably name it either story Time Saturday or story Time Sunday, really depending on what day I could upload it on I guess. LOL. That's something that I might start doing for my channel as well, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

I am however working on a vlog. It's probably going to be a while before I get this vlog out because I'm not working on it day after day because I got things going on, but I am working on another vlog. I just don't know when I'll have it uploaded. I want to try and have it uploaded either of before the end of March or sometime the first or second week of April.

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