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Friday, January 17, 2014 10:41AM CST

Icy roads, a sundog and gusty rain showers - January 16

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.

HD VIDEO: Icy road spinouts in Collinsville, IL

Thursday morning brought a light dusting of snow - less than an inch - to the St. Louis metro area. As I've seen many times before, these type of events have higher car accident rates than the big storms - and this one was no different. I shot video along I-255 near Collinsville and captured two spinouts on camera. There were at least 7 other cars in the ditch and median along the highway.

One the way home, a sundog appeared on the edge of the retreating cloud deck:

Later that day, rain showers with thunderstorm-like cloud features moved through the metro area. Strong gusty winds accompanied the onset of precipitation, and a gust front-like shelf cloud was present. The appearance of the precipitation shafts suggested much of it was actually snow for much of its descent, melting into rain as it passed through the warmer air close to the ground.

In other matters, another design tweak is in the works for the site to keep up with the ever-changing demands of search engine, mobile and social media. I've rolled out some of these changes on the sub-pages of the site, the main page will follow as I get the time to work on it.