Just when I came up for air after spending about 90 hours editing a wedding video for a client and finished the rough draft this afternoon, looks like the weather is coming back to life.
The National Hurricane Center just named the latest tropical system, Tropical Storm IDA. Looking at the forecast models, this is still way too early to say what will happen in five days. The latest 18Z GFDL run shows the storm will go insane and turn into a monster while the HWRF 18Z run shows the system will move inland over Central America and die. Then the interesting thing is the GFS 18Z run shows the storm moving into the Gulf of Mexico and looping like what happened with Hurricane Jeanne in 2004. The GFS shows the track almost like a horse shoe where it goes up to the gulf coast then heads back down to Cuba. Confused yet? Bottom line, keep your eye on this system, the end of the hurricane season is not over yet and we could have a late season storm to hit the USA.
“In August 2009, we saw the case of Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old model who found herself being called “skank” and “ho,” among other derogatory descriptions, in anonymous blog posts. Cohen decided to sue the blogger for defamation, but before she could do so, she needed to know who to sue. So her attorneys filed a motion to compel Google, operator of the Blogger.com site that housed the blog in question, to reveal the identity of the blog author.
The New York Supreme Court found that Cohen had indeed “established the merits” of a defamation action in that the statements on the blog contained assertions of objective fact, in particular suggesting Cohen was sexually promiscuous, that could form the basis of a defamation claim. “
Wow, that’s great news since there have been some bogus blogs about a few storm chasers and some of which even attacked my girlfriend and me a year ago.
So it look’s like Google and the rest of the blog-o-sphere will be changing the wild west of the internet and those hiding under rocks and behind fake names will soon be forced into the light.
The new rule of the internet is if you would not say it to someone face to face, you better not post it on line or they will still be able to find out what you said and then your going to look pretty stupid getting sued for acting like a 10 year old.
It was only a few years in the making but the new Breaking News Video Network http://www.bnvn.com website is up and running for the most part. I’m just adding the last of the video archive this morning with the Lightning and Scuba diving videos. Then I’ll be going through the 2009 footage and adding the latest catalogs.
When all the 2009 video is on line, we will have about 1,400 stock video catalogs on line including all of the Katrina footage that I shot which has never before seen stuff. You want tornado video, there is a ton of tornado video.
This is a total virtual on-line stock video website with all the videos time coded and watermarked for easy review by clients.
Yes it is really coming out tomorrow night. Since I hate watching myself on TV, I’ll be working on other stuff while Neva watches it. I don’t think I need to watch it because after all I lived it.
ATLANTA–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–The high-voltage drama and dangerous adventure of tornado chasing touches down on The Weather Channel® (TWC) with the world television premiere of Tornado Road premiering Sunday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. ET. This new six-part series comes from Thom Beers and the producers of Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers and America’s Toughest Jobs. Tornado Road follows multiple teams racing against each other into the dangers of Mother Nature to see who can capture the most tornado and severe weather footage.
The series takes place across the Great Plains where a peaceful, serene spring day can resemble a battleground during tornado season. For these teams, made up of meteorologists, other scientists and tornado enthusiasts, chasing tornadoes is a passion, a hobby and a livelihood where a month’s salary can be made in just a few hours.
Each one-hour episode of Tornado Road follows these teams on their journey across state lines equipped with GPS, weather gadgets and forecasting maps to help predict and battle fierce weather conditions such as strong wind, rain, lightning and hail.
Meet the teams:
Simon and Juston, two recent college graduates with meteorology degrees, turn their love for chasing tornado’s into a full time job. Will it be enough to make a living?
“Tornado Tim” and his daughter, Krystallin, gear up for a road trip in the “hailinator” – fully equipped with bullet proof glass. Not afraid to bring his religious fervor into the chase, Tim explains to his daughter why he thinks God created tornadoes.
Doug, known as the “Weather Paparazzi,” makes a living by capturing extreme weather footage. Can Doug show rookie chaser Philip the ropes or will their strong tempers and personalities brew a storm of their own?
Jon, a tornado chasing veteran and known as the legendary forecasting godfather, partners with fiancée Shawna. Can their relationship weather these storms and if they finally make their way to the altar.
Newlyweds Beau and Donya are meteorologists whose love for chasing tornados brought them closer. This season of chasing is their honeymoon, but how long will bliss last?
The first three episodes of Tornado Road premiere Sunday, Oct. 18 beginning at 8 p.m. ET, followed by the fourth episode on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. ET. Final episodes premiere Wednesday, Oct. 21, beginning at 2 p.m. ET.
Just an FYI folks, the new show comes out Sunday 10/18/2009 on The Weather Channel. Here are the air dates that I have as of right now. This is going into heavy rotation from what I was told. Once the last show we filmed is broadcast, I will finally be lifted from the non disclosure agreement 🙂
Yes, that’s right. I have just been given the air dates for Tornado Road which will be on TWC later this month. As I knew all along when I found out it was going to The Weather Channel, it will be heavy rotation like they do with all of the shows. Right now, it will start out on October, 18th and show three episodes that night then repeat during the week with additional shows added to the line up. And just as I’ve been up all night work on some wedding video production stuff. We have a huge wedding to film this weekend over in Wisconsin and I’m kind of freaking out because the forecast has a chance of snow in it. NO SNOW until Sunday.
Before the dive trip I was able to stop by my friend Davids place in Florida. David is one of a kind. You might have seen him on some television shows and movies but he is the real thing, not an actor. Stopped by to help out shooting some photos for his website while they were doing a video shot and did a pretty cool blog video with him.
David “The Cobra Kid Weathers” behind the scenes footage at the Weathers Ranch.
Here are the photos from that day. I would sit next to the Cobras, I would get in the cage with his Lion, his Bears and even his buddy Congo but I drew the line at that damn Gator. That thing looked like it just saw me as lunch.
Ok, it’s been a while since I updated the blog so I wanted to get back on and posted a few quick updates before I crash for the night.
Been super busy with several tv show projects and helping them research footage. Can’t say what for now, but they will be out soon on cable.
Next, been chasing storms when there within a few hours drive from home and working the news video with my video and the crews footage. I will be posting a lot of new blog videos later today after I get some sleep.
I’m still working on the news website but that is taking a lot longer then expected just do to the size of the database and layout. But it’s coming along.
I did take some time off this past weekend from being a workaholic and went fishing with Neva on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday we were up at the cabin up north but did not catch anything. Sunday, we got a lot of fish and I even got a Northern and a Large Mouth Bass. The Bass was… tasty, but the Northern got sent back to the deep. I am learning that I really need to push back the work and creative research and story research stuff along with running the daily stuff for BNVN because I can only do so much. It’s stressing me more and more lately trying to do way too much. I need a vacation…
Today I did get out and into the field to go chasing but the storms sucked. I put on 679 miles on the truck to go from home to the middle of South Dakota, chase some tiny hailers then come right back home. All in all about a 12 hour round trip. As I was setting up for tomorrow, er, today’s storms and looked over the forecast, I ended up bailing on the storm setup and came home. The forecast was looking like an MCS and Bow Echo. I thought, I could bail on this, go home and chase the system when it shows up on Thursday.
Well, it’s almost 3:00 in the morning, yes, work-a-holic and I need to get cleaned up and get some sleep.
6/18/2009 Supercell Thunderstorms hit the central Minnesota and dropped a lot of hail and heavy rain.
Various shots of lightning with a supercell thunderstorm, driving into the storm and footage from inside the hail core where the visibility was less then 20 feet.
Catalog # 06182009A
Total Run Time: 04;09;18
Format: HD
