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.
Unfortunately but not surprisingly, Alltel EVDO service in Charleston has similar down/up speeds to Raleigh, but much higher latency (pings exceeding 400ms). This means that my voice-over-IP line will not work at the house/office here in West Virginia. So, it's back to the internet access drawing board. The cable company here has a very basic internet package for around 20 bucks a month - you only get the slowest speeds, around 2 megs down and 150K up - but it is more than enough to support VOIP. So it looks like I'll be keeping the permanent internet at the house. An extra 20 bucks isn't bad considering I'll get to keep my current phone setup, plus not having to constantly shuffle the aircard/mobile router from the house to the car.
Since the house will be maintaining its full-time internet, I figured I might as well put a camera back up. I reactivated the east-facing sky camera which will be a permanent view from the Charleston house. This brings the number of camera feeds up to 3. The second camera will then be running as the portable view, set up wherever I'm working (Charleston, Raleigh, etc). The third camera remains the ChaseCam feed, which is only active during chases and trips of interest.
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To my regular readers, I offer my apologies for this heavy-handed notice. Unfortunately it has become necessary, so please bear with me!
Please don't copy/upload this site's content to social media or other web sites. Those copies have been a critical problem for me, seriously harming this site and my photography/storm chasing operation by diverting traffic, viewers, engagement and income. "Credit" and "exposure" does not benefit this site or my operation, rather they threaten my ability to cover my operating expenses. Please read my full explanation for this notice here.
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