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My work is, at this very moment you are reading this, generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I was forced to shut down the professional side of my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field. |
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Above: the new storm chase log widget.
We've had many discussions on Stormtrack about how much of the 1990-2010 era of storm chasing has vanished from the internet. This is happening as more and more chaser web sites go offline and modern-day chasers exclusively do little more than make fleeting posts on the unsearchable abyss of social media. As the years go by, I've increasingly realized how much of the past has slipped from my memory and how those types of archives are the only way anyone - even me - will remember any of it. I'm trying to do my small part in keeping the legacy of the past eras of storm chasing alive on the web.
I know the average person likely thinks my obsession with this stat-keeping is a little weird. Of course, they'd be right, but that's OK. Keeping records of all of my chases is just something I've liked to do for most of my career. Since 2003, I've had to be rigorous with that for tax purposes. But prior to 2015, other than for Great Plains trips, I wasn't keeping many written logs of chases and trips where I didn't capture something I felt was worth writing about. Since then, I've recognized the value in having a more complete record of those: the "busts" are just as much a part of storm chasing as the catches, and any faithful documentation of the activity really is incomplete without them.
And so, during the past month I've undertaken an effort to fill in many of the gaps in my chase log archive from years' past. This has mostly consisted of going back through my mileage reports and adding those entries that weren't previously listed on my site's logs section. Unfortunately for many of those, all I have is the date, the location and the subject matter being covered. But at least they're now on the record as having existed, at least here on this site.
Prior to 2003 when I started operating my chasing as a business, I wasn't doing mileage reports nor any type of detailed recordkeeping. That means for 2002 and prior years, most of those "bust" chases - even just the dates and locations of them - are simply lost to time. I know there are quite a few of those, I remember some of them vividly. I'm doing some digging through any old surviving records from that era to see if there are any traces of the unlogged outings (like debit/credit card transactions at gas stations), but I don't expect there will be much to find.
This unlogged chase from 1997-1999 was unconvered from my old box of slides, negatives and prints.
All told, the 2003-2015 mileage reports revealed an additional 112 chases that weren't originally listed in my online logs (which is why the total chases number jumped suddenly past the 1,500 mark this week). My old photo folders and box of photos and negatives have so far uncovered another 35 chases (and I haven't even finished going through everything). Those have all been added into the existing yearly logs. I created a new log page for the chases for which I couldn't pin down a date.
The storm chase logs section of this site has a lot of new updates and features: I've added a bunch of new category pages, color-coding and icon graphics for grouping chases by the type of weather phenomena. The 'widget' at the top and bottom of this page is the new interface for all of this, and it's now active on at least the the bottom of all of the pages of the site.
I'm sure there will be many more older chases found and added to the logs in the weeks to come, so stay tuned!
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My work is, at this very moment you are reading this, generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I was forced to shut down the professional side of my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field. |
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