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Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 7:34PM

Today's toll: 100+ accidents, 40+ injuries, 1 death . . .

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.

. . . due to icy roads, in Kanawha County alone. Those aren't statewide or regional numbers, that is just Kanawha County. And all from less than an inch of snow. Today was a widespread, all-roads (not bridges only) event, caused by our temperatures dipping into the teens overnight, which primed all road surfaces for the snow that arrived at midday. Today's accidents were widespread, but very random in their locations - for example, there were no accidents on the Carter (Fort Hill) bridge today (I was there from 11:30AM to 3:30PM). Documenting today's event required being in the right place at the right time - which I was not. I did come uncomfortably close to a head-on collision on Fort Hill Drive (ironically which is the road that leads up to the Fort Hill overlook, where I normally set up) when a minivan lost control and began sliding into my lane. This, of course, is why I run a dashcam: