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Re: How does one become a strom tracker/chaser for a career?
      Fri Jun 02 2006 10:00 PM

Ironically, Jorma Duran, who I'm now seeing on the Weather Channel, used to be at our local Ft. Myers NBC affiliate.

Remember last year for Wilma(? maybe it was Katrina when she came through here, there were so many it's hard to say! *LOL*) when they stuck Al Roker out on the balcony down here in Ft. Myers (or was it Naples?) and got knocked on his keister? *LOL*

I agree the first step is you need to go to school and get the training. It's a long way from when David Letterman used to move around shapes on a board in front of a camera. (Yes, he used to do weather.) Once you get the training, then you can decide what direction to take. There are so many different possibilities, not just being a media wonk. You can go to work for a research body (school, government, etc.), you can go to work for an emergency management agency (state, county, city, etc.), news outlet -- by the time you get through school there's a lot you can do. But now it's definitely a case of those with the most training get the better picks of what they want to do.

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* How does one become a strom tracker/chaser for a career? tigerman11 Fri Jun 02 2006 10:00 PM
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