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.
Maintaining a web site and associated social media feeds is the proverbial catch-22 of trying to please as many as possible, while annoying as few as possible. This is an ever-changing excercise in trying to give information only to those who would like to receive it. I value my readers and social media followers, and I'm always open to any suggestions that will make this whole effort a better experience for you.
That said, I've made a few minor changes in organization and protocol for the 2011 storm season to hopefully improve toward that goal. The biggest is giving this site a main 'front door' page again, and moving the blog URL back to the /blog/ subdirectory. The new front page is designed to emphasize the most popular sections on the site for easier access. The feed URLs are all the same.
Social media: For updates, the Facebook and Twitter pages will be the most frequently updated of all of my feeds. On storm chase days, these will include notifications of when the live video stream is on the air, along with a few updates about how the chase is progressing. These feeds will also update with new blog postings. I respect the privilege of having social media followers by not over-posting, so at most you'll see an update on these feeds no more than once every few days. The exception will be on an storm chase day, when I may post as many as 5 or 6 times throughout the day, depending on how significant the event is.
For the 100 or so storm chaser friends who are on my personal Facebook: to avoid cross-posting, I am limiting weather/chases content on that feed to postings about only the major events/intercepts after the fact. In other words, if you choose not to follow the Facebook page or Twitter feed, you won't see the real-time content or notifications. If you'd like to receive updates on the live streaming and so forth, you might consider following the Twitter or Facebook page, most of which will not be cross-posted to my private FB feed for netiquette reasons. Again, I promise to not abuse the courtesy of a 'like' or 'follow' by not posting excessively on those feeds.
Traditional RSS/XML: For those that prefer XML/RSS, those feeds are unchanged: the blog feed for this blog, the chase feed for final 'polished' chase reports, and the new photo feed for new digital imagery in the gallery.
Again, I appreciate your readership and look forward to a productive and fun storm season!
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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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