• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Concerns about 2021 first big events (numbers, traffic, idiots and such)

I think we got very lucky with this most recent stretch of events. Each day had at least a couple targets/storms to spread folks out, and most events were relatively low-end (mostly SPC Slights), so that may have helped not draw too much attention. If the 26th had verified in southwest/western Kansas as many chasers had been hoping, we may have had chaser-jam incident. I think a majority of chasers, including myself, were in Scott City, KS or very close to that location to start the day. Of course, a chaser-jam from that setup is pure speculation, but it has been a while since I've seen that many chasers in one spot.

As for my personal experiences, I didn't witness anything out of the ordinary during my recent 11-day stint in the Plains. There were a couple of incidents of chasers unnecessarily pulling out in front of me and reckless passing, but I'd contribute that to typical careless behavior rather than a pent-up chasing desire after the crappy last year. I saw others on Twitter reporting similar incidents. I did have a LEO approach me and several other chasers along a stretch of road on May 24 as we were watching the initial storm north of Leoti to say that they had received a report(s?) of chasers running stop signs in the area. He warned us to not drive recklessly and that if we saw a chaser doing so to report them, but again, I think this is base line/normal, sadly. From a traffic and driving stand point, my experience this spring was very mild compared to other stretches/events.
 
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