Weather Information Network Founded By:
Lawrence R. Hughes, Sr. & Jeff Gammons
Formed during the Hurricane Season of '98, the Weather Information Network has been providing up to the minute weather data and live hurricane coverage
broadcasts for the entire nation.
Our Mission:
To bring Live Audio Broadcasts of Hurricane conditions as they are reported
to all sectors of the nation via the internet. Also to provide the latest
severe weather warnings, winter storms, flash floods, flood advisories,
hurricane advisories, and tornado warnings, in a real-time manner,
directly from the National Weather Service.
The Team:
Our First Live Broadcast:
We started our first broadcast as Hurricane Georges was headed towards
Puerto Rico.
We established telephone contact with a person living on the Island and
brought her voice live around the nation, before and during the hurricane.
We had lost communication with her as the storm passed through
her area, knocking out all power and telephone lines.
The anxious residents of Florida, watched this storm very closely, as it had
all
the characteristics of making it's way to Florida's mainland, and that it
did, only a few days later.
The local TV stations in Miami, Florida went to 24 hour coverage of
Hurricane
Georges. During this nerve-racking time, we, the Weather Information Network
contacted CBS Channel 4 in
Miami, and spoke with the news director there about doing a simulcast over
the internet of their live
coverage, for they did not have the means to broadcast live video over the
internet. This being said, they quickly agreed to allow
us to carry their feed. We started broadcasting their coverage with hourly
updates from our staff. We had over 35,000 hits to our broadcast site in
24 hours.
It was a success and best of all Hurricane Georges spared Florida his
fury as he moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
Our storm chase team, lead by Jeff Gammons,
was dispatched to the west coast of Florida to bring us, and the rest of the
nation, live video feeds.
Jeff Gammons and the rest of the storm chase team later headed for the
Panhandle of Florida and then
onto Mississippi, where Hurricane Georges finally came ashore.
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