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Monday, February 11, 2008 - 5:15AM

Icy conditions tonight through Tuesday

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.

A potential for a significant icy road event exists on Monday and Tuesday, stretching from Oklahoma all the way to New York and Pennsylvania. An arctic cold front has brought frigid temperatures - in the single digits for some areas - all the way south of the Ohio Valley. As warm air and moisture returns northward overtop of that cold air, snow, sleet and freezing rain will begin falling across a broad swath from the Plains to the Northeast.

Since the ground will have had at least one full day of exposure to temperatures well below freezing, any frozen precipitation will have a good chance of quickly and efficiently sticking to the roads. In other words, for most areas it won't be a bridges-only hazard, it will be an all-roads hazard. This event will affect several major cities including Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Springfield, St. Louis, Evansville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Lexington, Columbus, Charleston, Clarksburg, Morgantown, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Albany and Philadelphia. Unfortunately I expect to see reports of hundreds and even thousands of accidents across the country before this ends on Wednesday morning.

Since Charleston will be included in this event, I will be staying here for the duration. The biggest hazard for us begins after midnight tonight.