• 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.

Denver Convention--THANKS!

I was hoping to post this much sooner, but I just found out that my ability to sign on as a new member is working now - Thank you Tim and Roger for putting together such a great convention. This was our first and we were very impressed. We enjoyed getting to meet some of the people who knew Jeff and have also made some wonderful new friends. Jeff had attended every year since they started (2002?) and we can see now why he would look forward to it every year. Unfortunately his visit to the convention last year was very brief due to Holiday Inn losing his confirmation number, but that's a long story I won't go into now. In any case, we are happy that you chose Radisson this year. We were very happy with the amenities and service, despite the brief power outage. I agree though that they should consider putting some kind of emergency lighting in the stairwells, and install emergency power for the elevators. That must have been horrible being stuck in the elevators without knowing when they would start up again - my sympathies to all who experienced it. Thanks for opening "video night" with Jeff's preview of his latest movie. We were happy to see that everyone seemed to enjoy his quirky sense of humor as one thing you may not have known about him is that he loved to make people laugh. It is still hard for us to believe that he is gone - in fact I almost e-mailed him about the record low temperature in Denver (was it -13 or -15?) as he found that kind of info extremely interesting and I was in the habit of letting him know about local weather events from our travels and/or home town that he may not have heard about yet. Probably many of you knew him more from his e-mails and posts to storm track than talking to him in person as he was usually pretty quiet in social situations but came alive with tons of things to write about at his computer keyboard, with his favorite subject of course being weather. Some of you may not know that his website is still online and has been updated to include the June 2005 storm chase season, thanks to the much appreciated help from David Drummond of Dryline Hosting, so check it out when you get a chance:
http://www.theperksofchasing.com
 
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