"Storm preparation is a major concern for us here at the marina. Keeping employees and local boaters aware of pending storms is a critical concern.

"We use Weather Defender as an additional resource to provide as close as real time weather data to our guests.  I am still learning how to fine tune the data and am confident it will be a big hit with our customers.  We actually have a flat panel display set up in our office where both our employees and customers can observe weather current data."

Tom Raiola
Brewer Bruce & Johnson’s Marina
Branford, Connecticut

"Weather Defender brings advanced warnings, accurate and reliable reporting right to my desk. With its advanced features, it provides the edge we need. And if you can get an edge like this, you need to take it. Winter weather is really hard to call.

"Winter weather is a life and death scenario. People make travel plans based on what they see and hear on radio & TV. We use Weather Defender because we need an absolutely reliable product. There are many alternatives which are not as reliable.

"In the case of winter weather for city government, we need predictive capabilities to be as accurate as possible because they use this information to make vital decisions, such as when and where to deploy snow plows, how many staff to allocate, pretty much everything on the decision side requires as much accuracy as possible. Having the edge on knowing when to plow, or how much snow to expect that can be a significant factor, making tens of thousands of dollars of difference.

"Finally, probably the most significant advantage is Weather Defender's e-mail based alerting. Being able to automatically e-mail people at various levels of the decision chain with specific threat information is crucial. Weather Defender keeps everyone on same page by bringing uniform information to all of us simultaneously."

Patrick Callahan
General Manager of OaheTV and Webmaster for City of Pierre
Pierre, South Dakota

"Our clients depend on us to provide high quality forecasting and advanced notification of severe weather. We use the Alert Perimeters feature in Weather Defender to help keep our forecasters attuned to weather hazards which may affect our clients."

Todd Frostad
President/COO
WeatherNation LLC
Excelsior, Minnesota

Cody writes to tell us how Weather Defender is being used at SLEMCO, an energy utility in Louisiana that serves over 90,000 residents:

"Weather Defender has been of a great assistance to our dispatch staff by making our company aware of pending weather threats to our electrical grid.

Cody Hulin
Southwest Louisiana Electric
Membership Corporation (SLEMCO)"

Weather Defender is shown here running on a large-screen plasma display in SLEMCO's
"Mission Control" room.

"I’m on my 4th weather-related business in the Twin Cities, and over the years I’ve become dependent on smart developers and a handful of creative, innovative hardware and software vendors that keep us on the leading edge of meteorology. One of our clients is a wind farm in North Dakota, where the weather can change in the blink of an eye and the threat of severe weather is ever-present. My latest company, WeatherNation, has come to rely on Weather Defender to keep our clients up-to-the-second, and ahead of the storm. Any tool that increases the safety factor for weather-sensitive companies is going to be well-received in the marketplace. There’s nothing like Weather Defender; we’ve been very pleased with the service. It has some very powerful functionality and can be adapted for any business that puts employee safety first.”

Paul Douglas
Founder & CEO
WeatherNation LLC
Excelsior, Minnesota

"We host quality summer programming that brings in thousands of children each summer. But even the best programming won't bring kids to our camp if their parents are concerned about safety. That's why we use Weather Defender to be alerted to severe weather near our camps, and we promote this fact to parents so they know that while their children are with us, they'll be safe."

Casey Fuerst
Director of Marketing & Communications
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries
Ashland, Nebraska

"At Walter G Anderson, we take employee safety very seriously. We use Weather Defender to monitor weather in our area so that we can be the first to know when severe weather threatens our people."

Nhia Moua
I/T Specialist
Walter G. Anderson, Inc.
Hamel, Minnesota

"As a summer camp that happens to be located in Tornado Alley, we take threatening weather very seriously. We trust Weather Defender to help protect our staff and the 1,500 kids we host each summer from severe weather. Whenever lightning or tornadic storms are nearby, we receive weather alerts directly on our cell phones so we always know what is coming and when it's time to take action."

David C. Coker
Executive Director
Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries
Ashland, Nebraska
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