HurricaneLiveNet.com

[hurricanetrack]

Hello all:

Just a note to let everyone know about our new site, called HurrricaneLiveNet.com

http://www.hurricanelivenet.com

It is our first totally subscription based site that will change the way you see a hurricane on the Internet forever. I launched the site on August 1 and have been working on it ever since.

I am working with some awesome people to help me on this and together we hope to make history by safely broadcasting 3 live streaming video sources from the teeth of the next hurricane(s). Our so-called HLN units are Storm Cases with a ton of technology inside. We will be able to stream live weather data, live web cam images and even live video from ground zero of the next landfalling hurricane. I was doing this on HurricaneTrack.com with only one source, but realized it was possible now to place as many as three of these self-contained, self-powered units out in the middle of a hurricane. I have been talking with NHC Director, Max Mayfield about this and he has been all about coming up with something that will keep people from having to be out in harm's way. These relatively small units can be mounted, strapped or otherwise fastened to just about anything that will likely still be there after the hurricane. We have done a lot of research in to this and found that the bottoms of light poles, palm trees and park benches tend to survive even the worst surge. How do I know? I saw it on my own video from my experiment last year during Ivan. Even when asphalt was removed, there were still these concrete stubs, if you will, right where they were poured to anchor a street light or power pole. Perfect spot for anchoring the Storm Cases and attaching a mobile weather station.

The Storm Cases are water tight and crush proof- not sure what that means exactly, but they should survive once the water submerges them.

The idea is to place these HLN units (3 of them total) in the path of, and to the right of, the eye of a hurricane. We can place them at a marina, along the immediate coast, inside a business or house that will likely be destroyed by the surge. You name it! The potential for learning exactly what the process is of how a hurricane does its dirty work is enormous. And we can broadcast it as it happens- in real time.

There is an inherent value to this as well- people want to see the forces of a hurricane and we can provide it to them. The money raised by subscribers signing up will go towards even more HLN units in the future and will continue to supplement our work with Lowe's and Sprint on hurricane education programs. It's a win-win situation since the public can have access to extraordinary video, data and images that not even the networks can provide and emergency management can see in real-time how bad the situation is at the three locations. You can bet we will provide the local EOC and media with a free account in the affected area. It is very expensive to produce this so I had to make it a subscription based site. The cost of streaming live video to a hundred thousand people is insane- so if a few thousand convert over to paying customers, we can handle that and have the funding to provide local officials with never before attempted live data and video from the worst of hurricanes.

I have typed nearly a book here but wanted to let fellow S2k members know about it. It may seem like a self-serving ad, but so be it. The more people who sign up, the more successful the project will be on several levels. So I thought I would tell you all about it. Think about this- no one has ever even attempted something like this and we are so close to pulling it off that it is keeping me up at night going over every little detail. Now all we need is a hurricane to prove that remote weather data, video and image broadcasting is not only possible, but safely executed. No one will be in harm's way and I can put the cams right where the 15 foot surge is going to come sweeping in. All of the basic technology was successfully tested during Ivan. Now, it's the real deal and ready to go.

To see a sneak peak of the site and some of our testing, go to:

http://www.hurricanelivenet.com and log in using either of the usernames and passwords below. They will be active for a few days to let people "test drive" if they like. The username and the password are the same. Check it out- and if you like what you see, sign up. If not, no biggy, I just want people to be aware of what we are about to accomplish.

Mark

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[JTD]

Mark this is so totally awesome!!!!!

Quick question...do these links work for dial-up though?

[hurricanetrack]

They should....my dad, who is an AOL user in the mtns of NC can access the live streams with minimal buffering. The trick is that we are ONLY streaming at 20-24 kbps! That's it. So if you're on at least 33kbps and hopefully 56k, you're good to go. It should work just fine for dial-up folks since we are streaming at less than dial-up speeds.

Check it out for free and let me know please....