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.
Items for sale/free
With most of my upstairs possessions boxed up and ready to go, I finally got around to the basement. Not much stuff down there to deal with, but there are a few unusual items of value I want to get rid of. I am putting them up on the blog to give readers first crack at them before they go on eBay in about a week. Some of these things are free for the taking, so take a look, you might see something you can use. These are all non-ship items, since I don't have packing material. However, I can take them to a Mailbox Plus to have them packed/shipped if you don't mind the extra cost. Take a look:
The quiet Thanksgiving week gave me some R&D time on the CGI script that allows updating the blog from the phone. The main accomplishment was getting an easy process working to post photos directly from the phone. I gave this script a good series of real-world tests during the last snow event, and everything worked as intended. I plan to use this on all events now.
The mobile photo posting capability is an improvement from my earlier script, the one I had previously used for mobile text-only updates to an existing post. That is, there had to be a post already set up for this script to be of use. So, I created a second script that can create a completely new post to the blog from the phone. The only feature I could not get working was to insert the post info into the RSS feed - I'll have to tackle that sometime later.
I also installed an FTP client on my phone that gives me full access to my server files, however, typing/editing raw HTML code on the phone is pretty tedious and impractical. Special characters such as the carats and quotes have to be accessed one at a time through a secondary menu. So, while I can fly through HTML updates on a full keyboard, on the phone the CGI scripts will have to do the job.
Upcoming weather
Models are showing a big winter storm system for late week across the Midwest and Northeast US. Keeping in mind the models' tendency to overestimate snow totals, take a look at what the GFS shows for Wednesday-Saturday:
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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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Mobile blog update script developments