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Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 5:55PM

More Charleston snow photos, big warmup ahead

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 added a few more photos from today to the January 1-3, 2008 snowstorm event log. The upslope snow continued strong through mid-morning Thursday, bringing an exact repeat of covered roads as yesterday. My front yard and steps had a good four to four and a half inches total at sunrise (photo above). By midday, the sun was out, and by afternoon the skies were clear. The 4 to 5 inch low-density snowpack across Charleston sublimated quickly in the sunlight, and now only shaded areas have the bulk of their accumulations remaining. Unfortunatly this meant that the classic 'blue sky/white ground' shots were nowhere to be seen by the time I was able to get out this afternoon. Everything will be gone in a few days as temps rocket into the 60s during the weekend, wrapping up this New Year's cold air and snow episode for West Virginia.