I keep a low profile and don’t seek out publicity when chasing hurricanes. However, I’ve never declined an interview when requested.

Following are short excerpts from a couple of interviews with major media organizations during chases:

Hurricane Wilma: 24 October 2005 – Everglades City, FL

Associated Press

By Curt Anderson

Even amateur hurricane chaser Josh Morgerman was impressed. Morgerman, a marketing executive from Los Angeles, flew to Tampa on Saturday to meet the storm, left Naples as the eye passed and drove to Everglades City.

"It was very serene and there were birds flying," a wet and shivering Morgerman said. "And then when we got here and got out of the car, it was like a rocket went off."

Morgerman said the hurricane was his fourth and "absolutely the most shocking."

Hurricane Bret: 23 August 1999 – Riviera, TX

National Public Radio (All Things Considered)

By John Burnett

From radio interview:

BURNETT: …Home was farther for some than it was for others. Josh Morgerman is a 29-year-old hurricane chaser who owns an Internet company in West Hollywood, California. He traveled across the country to be in south Texas when Bret made landfall.

MR. JOSH MORGERMAN: …[I was] driving down the 77, trying to get near where the eye was crossing the coast and I hit a squall and the car skidded off the road. And I had to—the car had to be taken away and this is the closest strong building to be in so this is where I spent the night.

BURNETT: Morgerman ended up sleeping with 15 other evacuees in a pew inside the Community Baptist Church in the tiny town of Riviera. The refugees ate hamburger stew and some passed the time singing hymns.

Satellite imagery of Hurricane Wilma (2005) courtesy of NOAA. Satellite imagery of Hurricane Bret (1999) courtesy of University of Wisconsin - Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center.