dorothyalert.com / about
DorothyAlert is a hobby group for people who watch the sky. It began as a Facebook group, and this website is its new front porch: a place search engines can find, where the group's photos, seasonal notes, and trivia can live outside a social feed.
Storm watching, weather photography, seasonal trend talk, and Oz trivia, shared by enthusiasts in communities all across the United States, with some members in other countries as well. Membership is free, participation is voluntary, and everything here is done for the love of weather.
DorothyAlert sells nothing, offers no services, takes no bookings, and does no storm work for hire. It is not a company, a news outlet, or an official weather authority — for official warnings, the group itself points you to the National Weather Service.
DorothyAlert has no storm chasing team, and no chase team is affiliated with dorothyalert.com at this time. Members are hobby weather watchers who photograph and report the weather from their own communities — nobody chases on the group's behalf, and any chasing a member does is their own, separate activity.
Day-to-day DorothyAlert happens at facebook.com/groups/DOROTHYALERT — that's where notifications are posted and photos are shared first. Until now, dorothyalert.com simply redirected visitors to that group; this site replaces the redirect with a real home, and the group link stays front and center on every page.
A tip of the hat to the most famous fictional storm in America — the Kansas cyclone in L. Frank Baum's Oz stories, published from 1900 and now in the public domain. The group's trivia is written in original words from the stories' facts.
Dorothy Alert is a hobby fan community, not affiliated with or endorsed by Warner Bros.
This draft is built to the same SEO-first standard as a modern static site, so search engines can find the group the way people search for it: weather alerts, tornado photos, and storm chasing anywhere in the United States — and for the international weather our members share.
| Feature | How it's done |
|---|---|
| Unique title & description | Every page has its own keyword-rich title tag and meta description — no duplicates across Home, Alerts, Storms, Damage, Trends, Trivia, and About. |
| Canonical URLs | Each page declares its own canonical address on https://dorothyalert.com (for example /alerts/, /storms/), so search engines index one clean address per page. |
| Heading structure | One H1 per page, with H2 and H3 in clean semantic order underneath — the outline screen readers and search engines both read. |
| Social sharing tags | Open Graph and Twitter card tags with per-site title, description, and URL, so group links shared on Facebook and elsewhere show a proper preview. |
| Structured data | JSON-LD describing the site (WebSite) and the group (Organization / hobby club), noting its nationwide U.S. coverage, international members, and its Facebook group address. |
| Image SEO | Every photo gets a descriptive caption and written alt text naming the event, subject, and place — written for the real member photos that replace the draft placeholders. |
| Clean addresses | Short, readable page addresses — /alerts/, /storms/, /damage/, /trends/, /trivia/, /about/ — plus a footer sitemap linking every page from every page. |
| Speed | Lightweight static HTML and CSS with no heavy frameworks — fast to load on a phone in a storm, which is both good manners and a search ranking factor. |
Here, all seven pages live in one file with switchable views so you can click through the whole draft. At launch they become seven separate pages, each with its own title, description, and canonical tag baked in — that's how the site gets the full search benefit described above.
Free, friendly, and purely a hobby. The group is where it all happens.
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