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What Is It Like To Be A Monsoon-Chasing Photographer?

The Valley’s monsoon storms can feature sky-blasting lightning, earth-shaking thunder and walls of dust.

Some people turn up the volume on the TV to block out the storms, but many others go toward the activity, hoping to capture it on their cameras and phones.

We talked with Bryan Snider, a storm chaser and weather documentarian who gets especially excited about the monsoon.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally aired July 9, 2015 and was re-aired July 4, 2016. 

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