Please Help - Metro Beach Windtalker

MESSAGE TO EVERYONE who uses the METRO BEACH WINDTALKER - Tom has been personally paying for this phone line and maintenance for the PC and software for 10++ yrs. here (THANK YOU TOM!!) with just a handful of us supporters (Paying $25-40+). Costs run $350+ yearly (and he's a young retiree now watching every penny). Literally we have a dozen people paying for everyone the past few years.  Shops and sponsors are not there anymore, its' all RIDER funded at this point.  Some 3000+ calls are being made to it so EVERYONE knows what the winds are doing there REALTIME. If we don't get more support this 2013 season, the line will be simply turned off and everyone will lose... It sucks but 2 years ago Tom had to shut down the Lexington WindTalker because of costs/lacked funding. Nothing is there now and its 60-90 minute drive there for a lot of us on North/NE days....

$15 is nothing to the thousands spent on the gear to ride there. Kiters we know use this line a lot as well having got the phone # (586-783-3112) from windsurfers originally. It's not a free service from the Metro Parks. We need your funding help too especially since there's more of you now! iWindsurf/iKitesurf/WindAlert cost a lot more and have no MB realtime data just the public (1-2 hr. delayed) NOAA readings.

We need 40+ people to step up and help contribute. This is the only email on this I will send as Tom should not have to be hounding and begging people for money. He's already been volunteering his time and personal funds to keep this vital service for us all for many years. 2 easy ways to help:

1. Send him a check this week: