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Nebraska storms draw storm chasers and weather forecasters to the state.In 1994, KETV NewsWatch 7 caught up with some storm chasers, who reflected on past storms as well as why they do what they do.James Branda had been interested in weather since he was a child, so he became a weather forecaster, working at Offutt Air Force Base. He was able to use that training to help him when he was storm chasing. But despite the danger, Branda said he didn’t get scared while following storms.”A couple of times, you know, your heart starts throbbing a little bit more, but we knew what we were doing and where we needed to go,” he said. See more from Branda as well as other storm chasers in the video above.More from the KETV Archives:’Look around dead trees’: Thousands walk through Iowa woods hunting for mushrooms in 1986The mushroom hunting season only lasts a few weeks, so thousands of people wandered through the woods in Iowa looking for them in 1986.Omaha family travels to see their relative canonized as a saint in 1999An Omaha man learned he was going to be related to a saint in 1999.
Nebraska storms draw storm chasers and weather forecasters to the state.
In 1994, KETV NewsWatch 7 caught up with some storm chasers, who reflected on past storms as well as why they do what they do.
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James Branda had been interested in weather since he was a child, so he became a weather forecaster, working at Offutt Air Force Base. He was able to use that training to help him when he was storm chasing.
But despite the danger, Branda said he didn’t get scared while following storms.
“A couple of times, you know, your heart starts throbbing a little bit more, but we knew what we were doing and where we needed to go,” he said.
See more from Branda as well as other storm chasers in the video above.
More from the KETV Archives:
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‘Look around dead trees’: Thousands walk through Iowa woods hunting for mushrooms in 1986
The mushroom hunting season only lasts a few weeks, so thousands of people wandered through the woods in Iowa looking for them in 1986.
Omaha family travels to see their relative canonized as a saint in 1999
An Omaha man learned he was going to be related to a saint in 1999.
