TS Fay and Tornado Rampage

After playing with my StormLab and getting help from "The Guru" I have finally learned how to capture and post radar stills and grabs from level 2 and level 3 data.

Here is a radar grab of level 2 data with the tornado watch that I pulled off my StormLab of TS Fay. She is causing quite a bit of flooding and has spawned a few tornadoes in Florida today with possible damage reported. All in all, the people in Florida have been pretty lucky as Fay could have gone to hurricane strength just before it made landfall and to be honest I thought she would but fortunatly she remained below hurricane strength with winds around 60mph. If you look closely you can make out the "eye" about 18 miles south of Yeehaw junction Florida. I really like the output and display of the level 2 data as it has so much more contrast than level 3

Although it takes quite a bit longer as far as download times go with level 2, the quality is so much better.

Today I was informed that the show "Tornado Rampage" that was set to air on the 9th did not air. After speaking with the production company I am assuming that they did not make slot although they did not say this outright. They did tell me that the show is set to air on September 22 and I am curious to see how it will be.

"Tornadoes Rampage"

Another tornado show is planned to air on Aug. 11th on The Discovery Channel called "Tornadoes Rampage". This show features some of my video from the Mulvane event in 2004 as well as a host of other tornado video from other chasers. As usual I am not real excited to see it as you never know exactly what the production company is going do to with it or how they will play it. Speaking of production companies, it seems that quite a few have been searching for video for the next go around of tornado shows and have been hell bent on getting it at the lowest dollar possible. I have delt with MANY production companies over the years and for the most part I have not had any real bad dealings excluding some copyright issues. However, as of late it appears that many other chasers have been bascially screwed by some of these production companies. For those who are interested, I encourage you to read DM blog on the matter. And as usual Dick tells it like it is and I could not agree more. It seems to me that everyone (chasers) keeps bitching about selling video or the lack thereof and the currect price or going rate. All the while selling there own video for pennies on the dollar or even giving it away: i-reporter, CNN and shit like that and then bitching because they can not make any real money.
I do not understand any of this....if you want to make money doing what you love....STOP GIVING IT AWAY!!!!!
The other option would be for the majority of chasers to set a real going rate and to stick to it. Of course this would never happen due to human nature as the need to "undercut" someone just for self promotion will always prevail over any possible good for the fellow chaser/man.
This is what makes me so sick about the entire chase community, we have those who represent the above mentioned "good natured chasers" and those who do not, both of which we see posting on other pages, bloges and websites and in reading those postings we can see that basically those "chasers" are nothing more than a bunch of dicks. And some people wonder why I was ever involved with The Outlaw Chasers and why Randy and I ever chased together or why I did not/do not post much on ST.
It is the pot calling the kettle black! And I for one do not care to be a part of it at all.