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Overland Park, Kan., Tornado Chaser Takes Tourists Along for the Ride.

By Mike Belt, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 15--Their violence causes damage, injury and death. Still, tornadoes are a growing tourist attraction in Kansas and the Midwest.

"It is an act of nature that people can't control, yet they can see some beauty and awe in a tornado," said Overland Park storm chaser Jim Farnham. "I'm just fascinated by them." Farnham is going into his fourth spring as owner and operator of Violent Skies Inc., a business that hauls vanloads of tourists on weeklong trips through the Midwest

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