Preserving storm chasing history

[Shane Adams]

It would take someone who is completely unafraid of retribution with an open mind to do a proper job of presenting our history. I'm certainly not that person and I seriously doubt anyone here is.

W.

Have you seen DEAD CHASERS SOCIETY ever? How wrong you are, about a great many things.

 

[Bill Hark]

Well, it looks like Dryline Hosting will soon end as of May 31, 2016. There are a number of chasing websites on that server. Some will migrate to other servers, others will be lost or will exist in a very streamlined form.

 

[Mark Blue]

I'm sad to hear this news @Bill Hark. That drop dead date is during the height of the chase season (I don't need to tell you), so I don't envy the website admins faced with that challenge. I can testify to how much time it takes to accomplish this type of move, as we switched from shared hosting to Amazon Web Services (AWS) during May and June last year. I'm hoping the boss will spare me this year - haha!

 

[Dan Robinson]

For those using Wordpress, you can install a backup plugin (the Dropbox one works well). You can then make a full backup of the site that can be imported into a new wp install on another host.

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[JF Massicotte]

I always wondered if people actually read accounts from chasers? I gave up on even writing them since I am under the impression nobody ever reads them. This is bad because I know I learnt a lot in the past from reading chaser accounts, this included busts reports.

 

[Dan Robinson]

I still get a lot of traffic to my old reports, especially on the anniversaries of big tornado days. Most of my chase log pages come up either on the first or second page in Google if someone is searching for a specific event. There is especially interest from people who live near where an event happened. I get links from small town/county social media pages all the time when they post about the anniversary of a big storm that affected them.

 

[Jason Gassner]

Almost a year since the last post to this thread. I just found it on Google. In today's connected, social media engrossed society, I think maybe an online museum would be a good option. A repository of sorts. Those who truly have a passion for chasing storms, not just tornadic storms I might add, those who really put in the effort to get out there and understand the science and document their experiences are the ones I believe could contribute. I think it's a situation where, if you build it they will come, hopefully. Even if you can't get a lot of people contributing, at least the "legends" of chasing could be given bios and with permission their content reproduced. And yet others could contribute some of their most successful chases. That is all a big IF, however. But I'm sure it's possible.

 

[Seth Price]

If there is a museum, we should start by burying retired storm chase vehicles in the ground like Cadillac Ranch.