Kanawha Valley Show: Teays Valley & Charleston, WV - July 2, 2002 - 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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.

Strong thunderstorms developed over most of the state on Tuesday afternoon and lasted until sunset. Bright daylight prevented any still photography, but the frequent, loud, close cloud-to-ground lightning was something to watch.

At right is a compilation of video from along I-64 in Teays Valley and from Fort Hill in Charleston (Click on still thumbnail images for MP3 thunder audio clips).

The NEXRAD doppler radar image at right shows the abundance of storms over much of the state at 5:00PM. Some of the lightning in the video at right was from the two small cells in Putnam County, shown on this radar image (in the 'P'-shaped county just west of Charleston). Severe thunderstorm incidents were numerous, including warnings in Boone, Clay, Raleigh and Kanawha counties as well as many counties in near the Virginia border.

The following severe weather events were reported to the National Weather Service from this day's storms: