Wednesday, January 25, 2007 - 11:56PM

Unrealized snow potential

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.

I was out for much of the day on Thursday, closely watching the numerous snow squalls move over the Charleston area. From the looks of radar and surface temperatures, I expected at least a couple of inches by later afternoon - but this potential was never realized. For the most part, problems were minimal. Our temperatures never rose above the freezing mark, in fact, my onboard thermometer only registered 30F for a brief moment downtown. Despite the subfreezing temps and bursts of moderate snow, the accumulations remained nearly immeasurable all day thanks to a few periods of sunlight. The only snow-covered roads I encountered were in the Alum Creek area around noon, but even that quickly melted in the post-squall sun. It's midnight now and the snow cover (if you can call it that) has actually receded since early morning, when a dusting covered the roads and grass.

We will remain in the cold pattern for at least another week, with most of our precip falling in frozen form. From what the models are showing, any snow events in Charleston during the next 7 days should be repeats of this week - some minor dustings each time, and not much more. As always, bridges and overpasses should be the main problem spots with these events, but only briefly, as road crews should be out spreading the salt in response.