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Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 10:03PM

Northwestern WV supercells and lightning

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down 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.

Here are a few photos from this evening along the I-77 and Route 50 corridors around Parkersburg:

Wall cloud and base approaching and moving overhead at Mineral Wells, WV:

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Lightning near Ellenboro, WV:

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Lightning was generally more intense than usual. Some bolts had numerous return strokes which resulted in overexposure.

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Another brief flare-up of convection about 30 miles east of I-77 near Rockport. I missed a couple clear-air CGs out of the side of the storm before I got set up.