• 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.

Hurricane Ike: Does Anyone Know Who Took These Pictures?

Aaron Dooley

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I can't seem to post them but they were sent to me by email of fish stuck in a fence, a football field underwater, caskets out of the grave, windows blown out downtown in Houston, and a guy in a yellow rain coat submerged in water as water was going down the drain in a vortex. There were others in the email as well and most seemed to be taken from the air.

The Senate Transportation & Homeland Security Committee contacted me to use the pictures but they are not mine.

Can anyone help? They would like to use the pictures for an upcomming hearing.

-Dooley
 
All pictures when clicked will take you to the link....

Eric Gay of the Associated Press took this photograph of fish that were stuck in a fence after flood waters receded in West Orange, Texas.
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13-foot storm surge washed an estimated 200 caskets out of their graves, ripping through most of Cameron Parish's 47 cemeteries and others in southwest Louisiana and coastal Texas. Some coffins floated miles into the marsh.
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Numerous pictures at link below. All are AP I think.

Even the dead can't escape Ike’s wrath
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AP Maybe?

Ya I saw that link and it didn't work for me either. It almost has to be someone at one of the media outlets, especially since most were from a heli or plane. I'm just wondering since there are no copyright marks on the photos should they be considered under Fair Use? It isn't be done for profit just a Gov. hearing presentation. Thanks for your help!

Heidi Farrar said:
Aaron, I checked the Ike discussion thread and I found a reference to the fish photo associated with a link to the Houston Chronicle. The link no longer works, though. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6003412.html Someone at the newspaper may be able to help you out with that. Good luck!
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If you all get the chance, go to Texas and see the damage for yourselves. I was just there and traveled all along the Texas coast to areas well inland. The smell of rotting animals is immense. The scope of the inland inundation of the surge is far bayond anything I have ever seen- even Katrina. It makes sense though, the land in that region of Texas is flat and the water rose several feet for perhaps tens of miles inland. It is truly a sight to behold- all that flattened terrain, trees, animals, buildings. I thought I had seen it all after Katrina, nope. So if you can, get down there to areas between Port Arthur and Winnie along road 73 and then down to the Bolivar. You'll see why that IF there are indeed people missing in the 100s that they may never be found.
 
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