A bold experiment is underway in New Hampshire as the Granite State’s judiciary embarks on a journey of self-assessment, reflection, and change to meet the dispute resolution needs of the 21st century.

Recognizing that many of those who utilize the court’s services are not represented by counsel, and understanding the importance of a judicial system that promotes both fairness and efficiency, the New Hampshire judiciary has already implemented a number of changes and initiatives aimed at increasing accessibility and providing meaningful alternatives to all those who pass through the courthouse doors, including increased availability of mediation services.

A 103-member New Hampshire Citizens Commission on the State Courts has been appointed to undertake an assessment of New Hampshire’s judicial system and to provide recommendations for improvements. A series of “listening sessions” for eliciting feedback from members of the public have been scheduled for all ten of New Hampshire’s counties. One such session was held earlier this week in Portsmouth.

The Commission is expected to submit its report and recommendations in the spring of 2006.

In the meantime, the New Hampshire judicial system has made a number of changes to its web site to increase its user-friendliness for self-represented parties. This includes a Self-Help Center where pro se litigants can gain ready access to important information, including pointers on how to prepare for court (with warning of the risks of not having legal counsel); quick links to instructions on filings for certain types of cases; and information on alternatives, including mediation, as well as resources available outside the court.

All of this information is presented in a commendably well organized, readily understandable format which could easily serve as a blueprint for other state courts wishing to increase public understanding of and improve public access to the judicial system.

Regular readers know of my ongoing fascination with depictions of conflict and negotiation in popular culture or what those depictions reveal to us about ourselves.

For those of you who share my interest, I offer you two radically different items: a controversial video game and an article on the rhetorics of negotiation by a University of Iowa law professor.

First, the video game.

Take Two Interactive Software, Inc., has a new video game in the works,“Bully”, which will be released, date uncertain, under its “Rockstar Games” label. Take Two, as you probably know, previously achieved notoriety for its Grand Theft Auto video game series in which players steal cars, participate in drive-by shootings, and even gain access to sexually explicit scenes hidden within the game.

Although its web site lists no imminent release date, Bully has already come under fire for its reputed glamorization of bullies and its depictions of violence on school grounds. (Bully’s opponents have even generated an online petition urging the company to reconsider Bully’s release.)

This is what the Bully web site has to say about the game:

Bully takes the Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking, innovative, original gameplay and humorous tongue-in-cheek storytelling to an entirely new setting: the schoolyard. As a troublesome schoolboy, you’ll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy.

(Bullworth Academy, incidentally, has a coat of arms emblazoned with the motto “Canem canis edit”—“dog eat dog” for those of you who’ve forgotten your high school Latin.)

In all fairness to Rockstar and Take Two, it’s hard to tell from this brief description and the three screenshots the site provides whether the game in fact “glamorizes” bullying, especially when the player in the role of the “troublesome schoolboy” will have to “stand up to bullies” to win. It’s safe to say, however, that there won’t be any peer mediation available to help players score points and advance to higher levels.

While there are organizations (like the Christian Game Developers Foundation, often with a distinctly conservative focus) working to provide parents with video games free of violent and sexually provocative images, currently few games exist designed expressly to teach non-violence and conflict resolution.

Bill Warters’s Campus ADR Tech Blog provides links to several. Enter the phrase “video game” in the blog’s search tool to find links to a number of non-violent games. One of the most ambitious of these, A Force More Powerful, originally scheduled for release this month but now apparently delayed, teaches the use of non-violence to achieve social change and the advancement of civil liberties. (See, however, this blog post by Ian Bogost at Water Cooler Games which raises some challenging questions in a post-Saddam world about a game whose ultimate goal, while rooted in progressive motives, is regime change and revolution.)

There is overall little interest in conflict resolution video games. This is evident in the case of Cool School: Where Peace Rules, a video game resulting from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s (FMCS) Youth Initiative, which was intended to be released some time this year. Cool School was designed to teach conflict resolution skills to children ranging in age from kindergarten to second grade. The concept initially seemed to enjoy the support of educators and parents alike, but evidently funding from private foundations, integral to the success of the project, has not materialized. This project may be dead in the water, if the lack of content on the FMCS Cool School web page is any indication.

Now for the negotiation article.

For those of you in search of something more scholarly than video games, download and read the recently published “The Rhetorics of Negotiation” by Gerald B. Wetlaufer, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Wetlaufer’s article offers a new framework for understanding behaviors in negotiation. He looks beyond the traditional binary categorization of negotiation behaviors—zero sum versus non-zero sum—and instead proposes a new taxonomy of negotiating styles: seven distinct “rhetorics” describing the complexities of negotiating. Wetlaufer analyzes these rhetorics through examples drawn from a mindbending array of sources—film, literature, and history, just to name a few. It’s a fascinating read as Wetlaufer takes you from Shakespeare to Mamet in his exploration of negotiation behavior.

Because of what it reveals about what my fellow lawyers think about issues impacting the practice of law, one of my favorite places to drop by on the American Bar Association web site is the Section of Litigation’s “Question of the Month”. June’s question, for example, uncovered to a surprising (and depressing) extent how deep career dissatisfaction runs among attorneys–or at least among those who responded to the survey.

September’s question concerns ADR and asks to what extent alternative dispute resolution has affected the practice of law for attorneys and how widely it is utilized. You can complete the survey here.

Results typically take about a month to be tallied and posted to the web site—I’ll plan to revisit this as soon as the results of September’s survey become available.

Shortly before I departed for last week’s business trip, I blogged about Negotiating Tip of the Week, an audioblog featuring weekly reflections on challenges and strategies in negotiation.

Negotiating Tip, created and published weekly by Joshua N. Weiss, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at the Harvard Program on Negotiation, offers an especially creative example of the ways in which technology and the Internet can be utilized to serve as innovative teaching and information dissemination tools in the ADR field.

Dr. Weiss was kind enough to share with me and my readers an article he recently completed–”Podcasting: A New Tool to Plant and Sow the Seeds of Negotiation and Mediation“. This article explains podcasting basics (and provides one of the clearest explanations of RSS I’ve read so far), offers some podcasting how-to’s (including links to useful web sites to help podcasting novices get started), and describes the benefits podcasting offers mediation and negotiation practitioners and educators alike. The potential this medium holds for the ADR field is virtually limitless.

Click here to download the article in Word format. (Dr. Weiss, my deepest appreciation.)

Earlier this summer I encouraged my fellow ADR professionals to start blogging.

Those who aren’t doing it (and most ADR folks are not) are most definitely missing out on a good thing. Blogging brings two chief rewards: it increases your knowledge and you get to meet lots of terrific people.

In order to post regularly, you need ideas and you need information. My own inspiration comes from many sources—the Internet, printed material, and the people I know or meet. Blogging has made me reflect, both internally and externally—about my own practice as mediator and teacher of mediators, but also, too, about the influences and impact of ADR on law, society and culture, and the ways in which those things in turn influence ADR. Blogging can make you smarter—the more you read, the more you reflect on what you read, the more you know and understand about yourself and your work. That’s a huge benefit. In other words, blogging is a great way to catch up on all that reading you’ve been meaning to do.

Secondly, blogging connects you to people. Through blogging, I have met remarkable individuals (like Perry Itkin and George Lenard) I probably never would have met otherwise. And it allowed me reconnect or stay connected with other remarkable individuals—people like Robert Ambrogi and Ashok Panikkar. I have exchanged emails with people from all around the world who have found me through my blog or who I have contacted because I discovered their web site while researching material for Online Guide. Blogging brings the whole world right to your doorstep.

You just can’t beat it.

Unfortunately, however, blogging doesn’t pay the bills. (Blogging is something most of us do for love, not money.) As much as I enjoy blogging, I do have a day job (which fortunately I also enjoy). And that day job is sending me off on a week-long business trip. Since I can’t be sure what kind of Internet access I’ll have while I’m on the road, I probably won’t be blogging again until I report back for blog-duty on Monday, September 26.

So you don’t feel that this has been a wasted trip, I’d like to steer you in the direction of some articles here you may be interested in, and also invite you to check out some other blogs if you’re looking for an ADR information fix.

Seek and ye shall find.

First of all, if you’re new to this blog, Online Guide to Mediation has a search tool. There are actually two of them—one at the top of the screen and one on the right in my sidebar. Just enter your search word or phrase and click “enter”.

From the vaults.

I’ve been blogging since January and have posted over 160 articles. I rummaged around through my archives and found some articles you may be interested in reading:

THE VANISHING TRIAL AND OTHER MYSTERIES

READY FOR PRIME TIME: Mediation comes to reality television

WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG: There’s a place for both attorneys and mediators in dealing with divorce

ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION EXAMINES CONFLICTS IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

INTERNET AS MEDIATOR: Web sites provide online resources for building community and conversation

COOPERATION OR COMPETITION: The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Game Theory

Making a move.

My blog is currently published through Blogger, a free, easy-to-use web-based blog publishing platform. While it’s great for anyone just starting out, it does have limitations. I’ve also experienced problems, too, as have my readers—everything from occasional outages to difficulty in viewing the blog in certain browsers. Although I have a certain nostalgic attachment to Blogger, it may be time to move on. I’ve begun experimenting with Typepad, which, alas, isn’t free but does offer some significant advantages over Blogger, including the ability to create categories to organize posts for easy reference and reader convenience. Please drop by and check it out—it may some day soon be Online Guide to Mediation’s new home. And of course I’d welcome your feedback.

Exploring new territory.

While I’m away, please be sure to check out the following excellent blogs:

Florida Mediator, published by Perry Itkin (mentioned earlier in this post), a blog focusing on Florida’s certified mediators but with news and information of interest to mediators everywhere.

National Arbitration Forum Blog, with news and information not just on arbitration but on other areas relating to ADR. (They were kind enough, by the way, to include a link to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Web Ring in their sidebar–thanks to my friends over at the National Arbitration Forum blog for their support!)

The ADR-friendly and well-written and researched Legal Sanity by Arnie Herz. (Arnie was kind enough to include a link to this blog in his September 16 post on Mediation Settlement Day 2005—thanks, Arnie.) Arnie, who is an attorney and mediator, posts often on ADR, as well as such topics as nontraditional approaches to law practice and achieving work/life balance.

Thoughts from a Management Lawyer, published by Michael Fitzgibbon, an attorney based in Toronto, offers intelligent discussion and commentary on labor and employment law issues of interest to any ADR professional whose practice encompasses workplace issues.

Global Voices Online, a global citizens’ media project sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, brings together bloggers from all over the world. One of the best places on the web to listen in on conversations and gain a more global perspective on important issues.

Well, that’s all for now. I’ve got a suitcase to pack and a plane to catch. Thanks for stopping by—I’ll look forward to resuming my duties here at Online Guide to Mediation when I return next week. See you then!

Fall is almost here, which means that the 2005 Annual Regional Conference of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s New England Chapter (NE-ACR) is just around the corner. Registration is now open for this three-day event, to be held on November 2, 3, and 4, 2005.

The Conference, “Pushing the Limits: Conversations for the ADR Community”, is NE-ACR’s most ambitious to date. It features four major events:

1. An “Interview with the Masters Series”, on Wednesday, November 2, 9:00 a.m. to noon, will feature interviews with two well-known and highly influential leaders in the ADR field, Lawrence Susskind, president of the Consensus Building Institute, and Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and co-author of one of the seminal works in the ADR field, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In.

2. “Difficult Conversations”, a Master Class led by Douglas Stone, co-author of conflict resolution classic Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, and David Seibel, president of Insight Partners, LP, on November 2, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

3. The Annual Conference, a full day event on Thursday, November 3, with Robert Benjamin as this year’s keynote speaker, which includes twelve different workshops on a wide range of topics.

4. “The Eclectic Mediator: Doing What Works to Get the Job Done”, a full-day Advanced Training led by Robert Benjamin, scheduled for Friday, November 4, from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Robert is a mediator, past-president of the Academy of Family Mediators, and prolific and controversial author of such articles as “Swindlers, Dealmakers and Mediators: A Brief History of Ethics in Negotiation,” “Mediation as a Subversive Activity,” and “Style Wars And Other Little Hypocrisies,” all available at Mediate.com.

The Conference and Advanced Training will be held at the Boston University Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, and the Master Class at Suffolk University Law School in the heart of downtown Boston.

For more information about the Conference, to download the Conference brochure, and to register, please visit NE-ACR’s web site.

According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, bullying is a tragically widespread phenomenon, with 30% of U.S. teens—some 5.7 million—estimated to have either been a target of bullying, been a bully themselves, or both. And Women’s Educational Media reports that almost one out of six of children in grades six through ten are bullied each year—roughly 3.2 million children.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is taking this issue seriously. Channel 5 News in Boston today reported that three high school students from Everett, Massachusetts, appeared before the Massachusetts Legislature to recount their own personal experiences with the impact of bullying.

State Senator Jarrett Barrios is currently sponsoring a bill, Senate Bill No. 301, which would require every public school in the Commonwealth to institute a “safe school plan” as part of an overall coordinated effort to combat bullying, which would include the implementation of procedures for protecting students from bullying, a bullying reporting mechanism, and the development and publication of a formal statement prohibiting bullying. The full text of the bill can be viewed here.

A number of web sites offer information, resources, advice, and support on bullying and bullying prevention. These include:

Facilitated by technology, e-learning has opened up a whole world of possibilities for trainers and students alike. Web-based learning platforms, which can utilize both synchronous and asynchronous methods for communication, enable teachers and learners, regardless of their geographical locations, to come together to share information and ideas.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to tour ResolutionWorks Online, a revolutionary new conflict resolution training system created by attorney, mediator, consultant, author, and ADR visionary Stewart Levine. Stewart, who possesses over a quarter century of experience in dispute resolution, is the founder of the Oakland-based Resolution Works, whose mission is to fundamentally transform “the way our culture currently resolves conflicts”.

ResolutionWorks Online is a web-based, facilitated learning platform which is designed to teach participants tools, concepts, and skills for effective conflict resolution and collaboration. It provides organizations with a “common language and common practices” to create a new climate for addressing internal conflict.

As Stewart points out, the goal of ResolutionWorks Online, which promotes collaborative problem-solving, is not just about “getting to resolution” but instead underscores the importance of “getting to relationship”.

The program is grounded in Stewart’s written work, which includes two books, The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want and Getting to Resolution: Turning Conflict Into Collaboration.

Utilizing an asynchronous discussion format, the program accommodates different learning styles and rates, which promotes dialogue and maximizes participation. The advantages a program like this offers an organization is the ability to provide training without incurring travel expenses and to offer a program which participants can access at their own time and pace.

ResolutionWorks Online is user-friendly with an intuitive interface. It contains six “learning cycles” or modules for participants to complete, which provide instruction through text, streaming audio narrated by Stewart, quizzes for participants to privately measure their own ability to understand and retain concepts, and queries participants are invited to respond to and share with the group.

The program’s features, all of which are clearly labeled and easy to access, include a “Query Space” where participants post their answers to queries posed to them in each of the learning cycles and where they are able to view each other’s responses; a “Discussion Center” for discussion threads and posts for participants’ comments and questions; a useful “Help & FAQ’s” section; and even for fun a conflict resolution version of the old game show “Concentration”. The program also has a nifty “Resume” tab which allows participants to return to the last learning module they had worked on and a “My Progress” feature which enables a participant to monitor their own progress.

Throughout the program a moderator provides structure and guidance to the participants and is available as a resource for questions and concerns that may arise.

For more information about ResolutionWorks Online, please visit the web site. You can also view a demo by clicking here.

A terrific online teaching tool is available at Negotiating Tip of the Week, an audioblog featuring weekly podcasts on negotiation strategies and issues in negotiation including fairness, differences in negotiating styles, and the art of question-asking.

Negotiating Tip is the creation of Josh Weiss, Associate Director of the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Global Negotiation Project. Dr. Weiss possesses an engaging, conversational style which makes these podcasts immediately appealing. His reflections on negotiation tactics and challenges provide instructive insights for students of negotiation, and there is plenty to inspire educators and trainers as well. The August 29 and the September 2 podcasts offer an interactive element, encouraging listeners to submit their ideas by either email to Dr. Weiss or by comment on the Negotiating Tip site.

(Bonus: you can download these podcasts to your iPod to enjoy on your morning jog or evening commute. And you can subscribe to Negotiating Tip or add it to your blogroll, as I’ve done with mine.)

Incidentally, drop by the PON web site for web casts available for downloading, including a promising-sounding one on “Emerging Careers in Conflict Resolution”, with David Matz, founder and director of the Graduate Programs in Dispute Resolution at UMass Boston, moderating a panel discussion on careers in ADR.

Thanks to my friend Colin Rule, who posted about Negotiating Tip of the Week at the ODR.info weblog on September 2.

Be sure to tune in.

In the City of Brotherly Love, community activists seeking an alternative to the local school district’s two military academies successfully pushed for the creation of a high school devoted to educating students about nonviolent solutions to conflict. Yesterday marked the official opening of the Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice, a magnet school with an enrollment of over 250 students from grades nine through twelve.

What distinguishes this school from other schools in Philadephia is its “rigorous academic program including the study of peace, violence prevention and social justice issues” and its commitment to teach students “conflict resolution and problem solving skills to effect positive change, locally and globally”.

For more information about Parkway Northwest High, click here.

Online Guide to Mediation is pleased to announce that a new interview is now available at ADR All-Stars, our special companion blog featuring interviews with extraordinary individuals who have influenced or contributed in significant ways to the alternative dispute resolution field.

Our latest interview spotlights Tammy Lenski, Ed.D. Tammy, a highly respected educator and leader in the alternative dispute resolution field here in the U.S., is the founder of Lenski Strategic, LLC, a company based in Dublin, New Hampshire, which provides ADR services nationally, with a special and unique focus on the needs of women in leadership roles in business and the workplace.

Tammy is also the publisher of Strategic Conversations, a blog devoted to ADR and negotiation strategies for women.

For the full text of the interview, which includes Tammy’s reflections and insights on mediation education and training, the needs of women in the workplace, and new directions for the dispute resolution field, please click here.

Anyone who still bears psychic scars from childhood games of dodgeball (a game–with distinct Hobbesian overtones in which only the fittest survive–once popular on playgrounds throughout the U.S.) will rejoice to learn that many schools are working actively to introduce children to nonviolent games of cooperation, as articles here and here indicate.

Support and inspiration for these kinds of efforts often comes from organizations like Peaceful Playgrounds, whose goals include reducing injuries (over 200,000 children injured annually on playgrounds here in the U.S.), decreasing violence and bullying, and encouraging educational and purposeful play. A conflict resolution component forms part of the overall Peaceful Playgrounds program.

For more information, you can visit the Peaceful Playgrounds web site. (Dodgeball fans, on the other hand, can visit the official web site for the International Dodge Ball Federation.)

Regular readers know how much I emphasize the importance of quality training and education in preparation for a career in mediation.

Woodbury College in Montpelier, Vermont, has gained a reputation for its highly regarded preparatory programs for mediators and conflict resolution professionals. In fact, Woodbury recently launched what its web site describes as a “first of its kind” graduate program in mediation and applied conflict studies. This program combines face-to-face with online learning, together with supervised practical experience for students. To support the acquisition of knowledge and skills, Woodbury utilizes a “cohort model” which allows students to “come together as a community of learners to engage in continuous, collaborative learning”.

For further information, please visit the Woodbury College web site.

Coming up this week, Online Guide to Mediation will publish a brand-new ADR All-Stars interview—this one featuring Tammy Lenski, an esteemed member of the Woodbury College faculty, and an exceptional and successful ADR practitioner based in New Hampshire.

Andy Carvin has proposed that today be International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day.

Here’s what he has to say:

If you have a blog, here’s what you can do…take a break from whatever it is you usually blog about, and post something constructive related to disaster relief. You can keep it topical to your blog; or, you can just dedicate blog space to listing websites where people can donate money (maybe even challenge people to match your donation). Or, share a story of a hurricane survivor. This goes for photo bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers as well - there’s no reason why this should be text-only.

Though this is inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the goal is to deal with disaster relief efforts worldwide, posting about a disaster relevant to your community. Post lists of supplies needed for victims of yesterday’s stampede in Baghdad. Post an update on how your family is recovering from the tsunami. Post multi-lingual resources for African families in Paris displaced by the recent apartment fires. Blog about whatever you choose, as long as it supports some kind of disaster assistance in a constructive way.

When you’ve posted to your blog, be sure to include a link to this Technorati tag: International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. That way, when people follow that link, they’ll be able to find a collection of all relevant postings published throughout the blogosphere. There will also be an RSS feed on that page, which can be used to aggregate all of the postings and display them on a single webpage. I plan to aggregate them on my Katrina Aftermath blog; you can do the same. (Later, I’ll post a javascript on my Katrina blog to make it easy for anyone to do this - more soon.) One collection of disaster relief resources, countless bloggers. That’s the power of the blogosphere.

So please join me…and participate in International Blogging for Disaster Relief Day. Take a break from whatever it is you normally blog about - even if it’s just for one post - and give back to the Net.

I posted information here yesterday about what you can do to support the relief effort. Cash donations are urgently needed.

If you’re an American citizen and believe that there’s a great deal more that our federal government and elected officials could be doing, let them know. Here are links for e-mail contact information for:

House of Representatives
U.S. Senate

And if you’d like to add a Red Cross button to your blog or web site, you can get obtain the HTML code by visiting the Katrina Aftermath blog. (Psst. Pass it on.)

Legal Talk Network has launched “Coast to Coast”, co-hosted by über-blawgers Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams.

Ambrogi, just up the road from me in Rockport, Massachusetts, and Williams, in Newport Beach, California, team up to tackle the latest and hottest issues in legal news today with a bicoastal perspective. Tune in on September 6 to hear them go head-to-head on the controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.

You can also click here to download or play the inaugural show, which featured American Bar Association President Michael Greco and Duke University Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky.

Here in the Greater Boston area, the start of school for elementary and secondary school students is just around the corner (a day of national mourning for most kids, but a time of rejoicing for some parents—memorably conveyed by this 2001 TV commercial for Staples office products).

In honor of the beginning of the new school year, the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences has released an electronic press kit to help parents prepare their children for the challenges that a new school year can present, aimed at “encourage[ing] the teaching of the ‘whole’ child”. This kit offers strategies on fighting childhood obesity, handling emergencies, and even tips on dealing with conflict.

A great resource for parents, educators, and kids is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s award-winning web site, Tolerance.org, which offers resources for promoting diversity and combatting bullying and violence in schools and communities.

For ADR professionals and attorneys on the lookout for a great resource on developments and news in education law, visit the web site for the National School Boards Association, as well as BoardBuzz, the NSBA’s highly informative weblog.

News sources around the U.S. report endlessly on the devastation left in the path of Hurricane Katrina. I’ve been to New Orleans twice within the past twelve months to conduct corporate training, and I am deeply saddened to think of the unimaginable loss that the people I worked with in Louisiana are facing in the aftermath of the storm. I hope, therefore, that you will understand this off-topic post.

To make donations to aid hurricane disaster relief, visit the web site for the American Red Cross. (Their web site has received countless visitors, so the page may take some time to load.) Cash contributions are urgently needed. Click here for a list of other organizations which support the relief effort.

With the enormity of human suffering involved, it is easy to forget that animals–wildlife, pets and livestock–have also been impacted by the storm. Rescue operations and efforts to find shelter for abandoned or lost animals are now underway, thanks to the Humane Society of the United States, which seeks donations as well.

To gain some sense of the power and ferocity of the storm that pounded the Gulf Coast states, you can view this video clip of Katrina shot in Gulfport, Mississippi, by storm chaser Scott McPartland, or see the clip shot in the same location by storm photographer Dave Lewison of facethewind.com. (Thanks to Ericka Gray for the links to the hurricane video clips.)