Below is the link to our five active camera feeds. We have about that many more on deck to be installed, but there's been a slight delay due to us changing the software to embed the video feeds to our website. It's been very quiet weather since we installed them, but I'll see if I can talk our tech guy into making a gallery on the website of some of the images they've captured. As a reminder, all money raised is going to expand our camera network and to allow us to build an inventory of disaster relief supplies to give out the next time a MS town is hit by a tornado. So win or lose the NIL part of the deal, your donations are going to help keep your fellow Mississippians safe and to assist them when they need it the most.
To break it down, it costs us, on average, between $1,200-$2,000 to buy and install one camera plus $600/yr in software subscriptions to have it on our website. I can tell you the NWS service offices and area media is thrilled we are doing this. They know the lifesaving potential they have. So if you're able, I humbly request you help us build this bigger. This was all born out of the tragedy that was the Rolling Fork, Winona, Amory tornado last March. The things I saw that night assuring in search and rescue haunt me to this day. I drove back home that in tears thinking there had to be more we could do than just chase and report back. A few weeks later a few of us on the team were kicking around ideas and one of them mentioned a camera network. From that moment on this became my obsession to make reality. Over a year of hard work, having doors slammed in my face, and being told you'll never make it happen we finally turned the dream into reality.
https://nmscas.org/nmsc-skycam-network/
