This is terrible. Well, it almost was. I came real close to losing this one forever.
In January 2000, we finally got rid of the ailing Buick station wagon that I'd been driving for the past 4 years. While doing a final clean-out of the old car, my uncle found a few rolls of film that had fallen down in to the 'mystery areas' of the car, along with the usual spare change and old gum wrappers.
After an unsuccessful storm chase (bust), I usually tossed the spent roll of film in the back seat and threw it away later.
This shot if from what I thought was a bust storm. I must have been looking the other way when this thing hit in front of the camera, because I honestly don't remember it. I threw the roll of film in the back seat where it 'vanished'. I never threw it away.
I don't even know when this was taken, but I do know that it's looking east from under the Greenbrier street bridge at the Piedmont Road railroad crossing in Charleston.
Discovered after 2 or 3 years of entombment in a station wagon: the Long Lost Lightning.
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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To my regular readers, I offer my apologies for this heavy-handed notice. Unfortunately it has become necessary, so please bear with me!
Please don't copy/upload this site's content to social media or other web sites. Those copies have been a critical problem for me, seriously harming this site and my photography/storm chasing operation by diverting traffic, viewers, engagement and income. "Credit" and "exposure" does not benefit this site or my operation, rather they threaten my ability to cover my operating expenses. Please read my full explanation for this notice here.
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This chase was a routine television assignment in my role as a cameraman. As a result, many of these don't have a dedicated chase log.
This chase was only recorded in my mileage reports, no detailed log was written for it.
