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1. Government Computer News (GCN) daily news -- federal, state and local government technology; Online app gauges Colorado rainfall
www.gcnstateandlocal.com/23_12 - [Cached]Published on: 6/4/2004 Last Visited: 6/4/2004
Jon Cornick
"After supper I would go down to the basement and spend two hours drawing up the map and putting it online."
-Jon Cornick
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The number of Rain Check volunteers doubled, said Jon Cornick, a retired Air Force weather officer and current vice president of the Pikes Peak Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. By 1968, the program had 130 volunteers to produce the annual rainfall report.
But then "ranching lost its flavor," Cornick said. The county's demographics shifted from rural to urban. People built homes instead of cattle ranches and held city jobs. Rain Check participation slacked off.
By 1996, when Cornick took over the Pikes Peak Chapter, Rain Check had about a dozen faithful volunteers left. Cornick gave them postcards with his address and a stamp on one side and a calendar on the other. Volunteers would record the rainfall on the calendar side and drop it in the mail each month.
Almost as damaging as flooding is hail. A 10-minute hailstorm can put a farmer out of business, Cornick said.
So the Rain Check project also gave the volunteers hail pads to measure hail.
Cornick built a Web page with basic graphics and loaded it on his Internet service provider's Web site.
"It became part of my life," Cornick said.
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Although Cornick was still operating Rain Check out of his basement, he now had about 80 volunteers. He turned away many people because he didn't have enough rain gauges.
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"He said they would help get me out of the basement," Cornick said.
Cornick worked with the company's Colorado Springs office and the county to set up a site at www.rain-check.org. Now Cornick e-mails a password to each volunteer. The data is refreshed every 24 hours-an enormous improvement over annual reporting, Cornick said.
The vendor and Cornick built the site using ArcIMS geographic information system software from ESRI of Redlands, Calif., and a Microsoft SQL Server database. -
2. Government Computer News (GCN) daily news -- federal, state and local government technology; Online app gauges Colorado rainfall
www.gcn.com/23_12/news/26015-1 - [Cached]Published on: 5/24/2004 Last Visited: 5/24/2004
Jon Cornick
"After supper I would go down to the basement and spend two hours drawing up the map and putting it online."
-Jon Cornick
...
The number of Rain Check volunteers doubled, said Jon Cornick, a retired Air Force weather officer and current vice president of the Pikes Peak Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. By 1968, the program had 130 volunteers to produce the annual rainfall report.
But then "ranching lost its flavor," Cornick said. The county's demographics shifted from rural to urban. People built homes instead of cattle ranches and held city jobs. Rain Check participation slacked off.
By 1996, when Cornick took over the Pikes Peak Chapter, Rain Check had about a dozen faithful volunteers left. Cornick gave them postcards with his address and a stamp on one side and a calendar on the other. Volunteers would record the rainfall on the calendar side and drop it in the mail each month.
Almost as damaging as flooding is hail. A 10-minute hailstorm can put a farmer out of business, Cornick said.
So the Rain Check project also gave the volunteers hail pads to measure hail.
Cornick built a Web page with basic graphics and loaded it on his Internet service provider's Web site.
"It became part of my life," Cornick said.
...
Although Cornick was still operating Rain Check out of his basement, he now had about 80 volunteers. He turned away many people because he didn't have enough rain gauges.
...
"He said they would help get me out of the basement," Cornick said.
Cornick worked with the company's Colorado Springs office and the county to set up a site at www.rain-check.org. Now Cornick e-mails a password to each volunteer. The data is refreshed every 24 hours-an enormous improvement over annual reporting, Cornick said.
The vendor and Cornick built the site using ArcIMS geographic information system software from ESRI of Redlands, Calif., and a Microsoft SQL Server database. -
3. Government Computer News (GCN) daily news -- federal, state and local government technology; Online app gauges Colorado rainfall
www.subscribefree.com/23_12/ne - [Cached]Published on: 10/23/2003 Last Visited: 5/28/2004
Jon Cornick
"After supper I would go down to the basement and spend two hours drawing up the map and putting it online."
-Jon Cornick
...
The number of Rain Check volunteers doubled, said Jon Cornick, a retired Air Force weather officer and current vice president of the Pikes Peak Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. By 1968, the program had 130 volunteers to produce the annual rainfall report.
But then "ranching lost its flavor," Cornick said. The county's demographics shifted from rural to urban. People built homes instead of cattle ranches and held city jobs. Rain Check participation slacked off.
By 1996, when Cornick took over the Pikes Peak Chapter, Rain Check had about a dozen faithful volunteers left. Cornick gave them postcards with his address and a stamp on one side and a calendar on the other. Volunteers would record the rainfall on the calendar side and drop it in the mail each month.
Almost as damaging as flooding is hail. A 10-minute hailstorm can put a farmer out of business, Cornick said.
So the Rain Check project also gave the volunteers hail pads to measure hail.
Cornick built a Web page with basic graphics and loaded it on his Internet service provider's Web site.
"It became part of my life," Cornick said.
...
Although Cornick was still operating Rain Check out of his basement, he now had about 80 volunteers. He turned away many people because he didn't have enough rain gauges.
...
"He said they would help get me out of the basement," Cornick said.
Cornick worked with the company's Colorado Springs office and the county to set up a site at www.rain-check.org. Now Cornick e-mails a password to each volunteer. The data is refreshed every 24 hours-an enormous improvement over annual reporting, Cornick said.
The vendor and Cornick built the site using ArcIMS geographic information system software from ESRI of Redlands, Calif., and a Microsoft SQL Server database.
