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Monday, May 24, 2010 - 9:05PM CDT

May 24-25 southwestern Illinois storms

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.

Update Tuesday 3:01AM CDT: Storms lasted through the night, mainly well to the north of here. However, one advantage of living in Plains-like terrain is the ability to see and photograph storms at great distances - with considerable fuel savings! This lightning was about 35-40 miles northeast of New Baden, shot from just up the road from my apartment with the 75-300mm lens.

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And to make the night a little more interesting, as I drove back home from shooting a round of lightning, a bright meteor fireball streaked across the southern sky. My dashcam caught the tail end of it.

Original post: Monday 9:05PM CDT: Despite being under a ridge, strong instability allowed for thunderstorms to fire across Illinois on Monday. The lack of upper support meant that the storms could only reach severe levels in short pulses. However, they put on a visual show across the prairies east of St. Louis.

Near Breese: