• 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.

Winter weather awareness 2014

Dan Robinson

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Since we are in the midst of a series of winter weather awareness weeks for various states and NWS CWAs this month, I wanted to announce a redesign and restructuring of the icyroadsafty.com web site into an online course format. Most of the content is the same, with some revisions - but it's now structured as an online course sequence. There are a few new articles and blog posts added over the past year or so as well, including some observations of two significant southern US icing events I made trips for in January. Video clips from the 2013-2014 season have also been added.

The site is a non-revenue effort. I receive ad revenue from my Youtube channel, other than that, the entire icyroadsafety.com effort is not sponsored, funded or supported by anyone. All of my coverage trips are financed by me personally out-of-pocket (Youtube ads offset this cost).

If you are doing any type of winter weather awareness in your community, I'd appreciate including the site and some of the safety concepts in your materials. I can provide images and videos to any NWS office, EMS/Fire groups or law enforcement for use in offline presentations free of charge.

I would also like to encourage spotters to monitor for icing in your area and make reports to the NWS if icing hazards are observed when no advisories or warnings are in effect. If you capture video, let me know and I will post a link to it on the social media feeds.

Thanks!
Dan
 
Here is an update from this recent event. There have been at least 15 icy road deaths since Saturday, November 16. This brings the total to at least 28 dead in 12 states since beginning of this Arctic air intrusion. Here is the state-by-state toll from Nov 16-17:

MN: 6, TX: 4, MO: 3, OK: 1, AR: 1

Totals since the beginning of this winter event last week (28):

Minnesota: 10
Texas: 4
Missouri: 3
Mississippi: 2
Arkansas: 2
Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota and Michigan: 1 each

Remember, these are *minimum* numbers reported in news articles. There are likely many more.
 
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