Author Topic: Garys Site (Read 57799 times)

saratogaWX · « **Reply #25 on:** July 26, 2006, 10:24:47 AM »

'Tis done. I've posted the message on weather-watch, weathermatrix and Ambient.

Best regards,
Ken

CNYWeather · « **Reply #26 on:** July 26, 2006, 12:24:09 PM »

Hey Guys!

Tony T. from CNYWeather is here now.

Great that you guys have got this up and running
again. I missed it.

mhweather · « **Reply #27 on:** July 26, 2006, 01:02:11 PM »

Hello!

Mark from Mullica Hill Weather here. Emailed Gary at his new address just now to let him know about this new board.

weathergirl · « **Reply #28 on:** July 26, 2006, 01:11:44 PM »

Hey I missed everyone! Glad to see the forum is up and running.

Bruiser · « **Reply #29 on:** July 26, 2006, 01:26:55 PM »

Hi all! Thanks to Kenmtrue for pointing us here to this site! Good to see you all again....

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #30 on:** July 26, 2006, 02:21:51 PM »

Lancaster, Ohio checking in...

Thanks for getting this temp spot up and running for us!

Mark

saratogaWX · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2006, 02:48:13 PM »

You're very welcome, Mark! We all missed this forum and are happy we can put up a temporary one while the original weatherforum.net is in limbo.

Ken

ocala · « **Reply #32 on:** July 26, 2006, 06:13:59 PM »

I'm back! Thanks Mark for letting me know.
Hey Drew, about letting other members know we're here. The links on your map you made a while back with all the members web sites should have email contacts. Just an idea if you want to pursue it.
Sorry Drew, just noticed you already put a link up for it.
Dave

Ravenstar · « **Reply #33 on:** July 26, 2006, 07:19:32 PM »

Very cool, good to see you folks again. Can't keep a good thing down!

capeweather · « **Reply #34 on:** July 26, 2006, 08:11:52 PM »

Had to cut the vacation a little short but I'm back. It was a lot of fun and the weather was great.

anvana · « **Reply #35 on:** July 27, 2006, 02:32:49 PM »

Thank you...thank you...thank you!

After suffering through Weather Forum withdrawl for over 2 weeks, I happened to stumble on a posting from another forum explaining what happened. Thanks to the crew who established the temp forum until things get straightened out. I can now resume a somewhat normal life.

Joe
Topsail Weather
www.topsailweather.com
www.topsailislandweather.com

saratogaWX · « **Reply #36 on:** July 27, 2006, 02:45:06 PM »

You're very welcome Joe.. A lot of us were suffering from PWWS (post-weatherforum-withdrawal-syndrome

) and now we can get our weather-and-camaraderie fix again!

It's very rewarding to see folks are rejoining this temporary forum rapidly.. it's only been 24 hours since it was announced on weather-watch, weathermatrix and ambient, and already 20 (from the original 370+) members have rejoined.

Thanks to all of you for helping keep Gary's vision alive!

Best regards,
Ken

edpnjax · « **Reply #37 on:** July 27, 2006, 04:15:37 PM »

Jacksonville / St. Johns, FL has arrived!!

Thanks to all who saved the site...

ncpilot · « **Reply #38 on:** July 27, 2006, 09:30:54 PM »

Wilmington NC checking in...

Also glad we've got something back up and running--thanks to all who made it possible. And I'm sure Gary would appreciate you all keeping this alive, I can't imagine he'd take it any other way...

As an FYI, since I don't frequent the other weather forums except rarely, I managed to get a hit on weathermatrix thread when I Googled "weatherforum.net", that had a recent time stamp, and so I kinda stumbled upon this...

When in doubt, Google!

Can you add key words for indexing that would help point people here?

A suggestion for the future, would it make sense to keep an off-line copy of all the email addresses of members so that in the case of something like this happening, a mass mailing could be sent letting everyone know what's going on?

Matt - AZ · « **Reply #39 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:24:18 PM »

Hi -

Great to see this temporary forum! Thanks to everyone that got it up and running!

Found it through an e-mail from Mark / Ohio, thanks!

Take care.

Matt - AZ

up10ad N9RJH · « **Reply #40 on:** August 01, 2006, 10:04:53 AM »

It was just terrible! I was stumbling around the net during one of the hottest spells in recent times and couldn't find the forum! I knew Gary was moving, and had some problems with the site DNS, but then I read nothing more. I must have missed the message about this place when it was posted. I instinctively knew that you guys were somewhere... Finally my brain kicked in and I drew on one of the special, little known techniques I developed with message boards back in 1982

and did a search on Ambinet for "Weather Forum Gary". Imagine that, using the search feature

Anyway, now that I've found everyone let me thank you all for making it happen.

saratogaWX · « **Reply #41 on:** August 01, 2006, 01:47:39 PM »

Glad to have you back, Rick, to our temporary watering hole

I guess I should bump the threads on Ambient, weather-matrix and Weather-display forums to put it in folks minds again.

In the 7 days the forum has been up, we now have 41 folks as members. Thanks to all for keeping Gary's vision alive!

Best regards,
Ken

EDIT: did the bump on all three forums.. Ken

mhweather · « **Reply #42 on:** August 06, 2006, 07:53:13 PM »

got a brief email from Gary Friday......

Just to keep the folks up to date, Gary is still with us but working 18hr days at his new Texas job and still working on his final move arrangements from RH to Texas, he's just too busy right now to get involved in the forum. As I get more information I'll pass it on

saratogaWX · « **Reply #43 on:** August 09, 2006, 02:16:35 PM »

I talked with Gary by phone today. He's working 18 hour days, sleeping on an air mattress in his (mostly empty) home without internet access, and hoping for a let-up soon in the big to-do list.

He does have a backup of the original forum taken about 12-July (SQL backup) on an external hard-drive in Virginia, and all the rest of his site on another computer (also in Virginia). Both of which won't be accessable until the big move from VA to TX.

He really wanted to thank the folks for all the efforts to keep the forum running during the difficulties with the domain expiration/hoster expiration, and he will get to the forum when time permits.

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A huge *thank you* that I can't adequately express to you and to everybody for keeping weatherforum alive!!! I'll be there as soon as I can.

Best,
Gary

Gary Oldham
Public Safety Projects Director
Williamson County

Best regards,
Ken

anchorageweather · « **Reply #44 on:** August 13, 2006, 03:24:35 PM »

As I stumble in, let me say - better late than never finding this place. Thanks for setting it up. Temp or not, Im glad its here!

-E

saratogaWX · « **Reply #45 on:** August 15, 2006, 12:27:08 PM »

Some late news..

Yesterday, Gary's domain 'weatherforum.net' left it's 30 day stay in 'redemptionperiod' status, and has now entered the 5-day 'pendingdelete' status (customary for the registrar process).

All is NOT lost, and Gary replied to my mail with this:

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Thanks, Ken. After we talked, I used the email address I got from you
for Schlund, which was returned with a response from 1&1. They gave me
info on redeeming, which required I sign up for an account with 1&1
(what strongarm tactics?), which I did. THEN they wanted me to prove I
was a US resident, so I had to fax them a copy of my passport, and it
wasn't until yesterday morning that they gave me both an account and
contract number, which I needed for the redemption form, which I
promptly faxed to them. HOPEFULLY, they'll actually renew it for me,
but we'll see...

Thanks again,
Gary

Gary Oldham
Public Safety Projects Director
Williamson County

I still have a 'safety net' in place for the domain should it fall in the cracks.

Gary does have an offline backup of the forum taken a couple of days before the DNS ceased to work, but it's in Virginia -- he'll address that when he returns to pack up house and family.

Just thought you'd like to know what's up.

Best regards,
Ken

Mark / Ohio · « **Reply #46 on:** August 15, 2006, 08:15:38 PM »

I appreciate the update Ken. I'm sure Gary really did not need that particular headache along with everything else requiring his attention at the moment.

Once again I'd like to thank you and the other's involved in setting us up a temporary home here.

The other forum owners would probably be getting a bit tired of hearing us fuss about the loss of Weatherforum by now in their forums.

talbert1952 · « **Reply #47 on:** August 21, 2006, 10:20:12 PM »

Looks like a squatter has grabbed weatherforum.net. I could be wrong but it doesn't look promising.

Domain Name: WEATHERFORUM.NET
Registrar: SITENAME.COM LLC
Whois Server: whois.communigal.net
Referral URL: http://www.sitename.com
Name Server: DNS8.NAME-SERVICES.COM
Name Server: DNS9.NAME-SERVICES.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 20-aug-2006
Creation Date: 20-aug-2006
Expiration Date: 20-aug-2007

daveh · « **Reply #48 on:** August 22, 2006, 01:01:39 AM »

Hi,

I lost track of Gary and the WeatherForum Board too, but the Texas Press have caught him at work:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/10eoc.html
http://wilco.wss.bcentral.com/PIO/CEOC/default.aspx
http://wilco.wss.bcentral.com/PIO/CEOC/Gary%20Oldham/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=1
http://wilco.wss.bcentral.com/PIO/CEOC/Lists/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=3&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwilco%2Ewss%2Ebcentral%2Ecom%2FPIO%2FCEOC%2Fdefault%2Easpx

Nice picture of Gary with the almost Hill Country in the background on the Williamson County site. Next spring they will update his official pictue with him riding a long horn through the blue bonnets. I'm hoping Gary will get us some great deals from the Dell Factory Outlet and off with good time should we get a speeding ticket in a po-dunk little town like Taylor where they WILL bust you tush for 9 mph over the bogus 35 mph limit through their little town (but I'm not bitter).

Dave
CW0351

saratogaWX · « **Reply #49 on:** August 22, 2006, 01:47:53 AM »

It's sad, but eNom.com is now in possession of weatherforum.net and is holding a private auction for the domain. Auction has 3 bidders, but I can't find a way (yet) to get in on it. Auction closes on 23-Aug. Sent a note, but no response yet from eNom.com.

Ken

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Author Topic: Garys Site (Read 57799 times)