Hope all you guys up there are taking your precautions and/or getting the hell outta there.
Good luck to anyone in its path, hope to see you around next week once it's all over.
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Hope all you guys up there are taking your precautions and/or getting the hell outta there.
Good luck to anyone in its path, hope to see you around next week once it's all over.
+1
Hope everyone stays safe.
+2! Only one word for you guys on the coast ....LEAVE! Don't be one of the stubborn ones and try to ride it out! This thing is massive! My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that lives in the path of Sandy!
Stay safe all.
If you can do that and get some pictures, please do.
Was out on an Audubon birding excursion yesterday - we saw a rump banded storm petrel in a Massachusetts North Shore inlet. It's a pelagic bird normally found hundreds of miles off the coasts of the Carolinas, almost never seen from land and even then never north of Connecticut. Poor guy was blown way, way off course by Sandy...
Be safe everyone in the track of the storm.
John; if you are going to claim you saw rare birds blown in by the hurricane and then not show us pictures of it shot with your new 600mm, I am not sure we can continue to believe you. Although I did look the bird up to see what it looked like since I had never heard of it before, kind of an ugly little guy and probably not very photogenic any way.
LOL. I wouldn't know how to ID a storm petrel if it was pecking me in the...well, you get the idea. He was far off, my 600mm + 2x got him in focus, as a tiny speck. It was enough for the Audubon leader to tell it was a 'band rumped' and not a 'Leach's'. I'd never even heard of a petrel before yesterday. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
I did get some shots of crossbills, ducks, plovers, and some of a bittern in flight - handheld at 1200mm :) .
Not processed yet, though. We've already lost power for a few hours (back on now), but I'll post them at some point...
I bet they love your 600mm at the Audubon birding excursions :p
But seriously I thought your next reply might be on the run from the storm on your iphone.
Heh, that reminds me of something that happened a few years ago. Big tropical storm came past us just at the end of a long dry summer, from the tropics and all way across the desert, not much rain but a lot of lightning and huge winds. I saw it was headed for Kangaroo island where a few mates lived in a National Park (working as Rangers). I sent them an sms "hey guys, big storm coming your way, hope the lightning doesn't start a bushfire".Quote:
Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
Got a reply back, "nah, she'll be right mate, no fires here". (yet).
20 minutes later I got a picture sent from them "this is the view out of the back window of our car, driving 150km/h with the bushfire chasing us down the only road outta here, and it's gaining on us..."
Hope that Sandy doesn't lead to the same thing over there. Shots would be cool but don't break your camera (or yourselves) for any.
Not running, but posting from my iPhone. Power back on, but cable (including Internet and landline) are still out. We're up here on the fringe - I can't imagine what it's like in New Jersey, New York, etc.
I am in Garden City on Long Island and so far just a couple of trees and wind.
Looking at Manhattan and Brooklyn I am getting concerned about the subway.
Friend in Monmouth NJ is w/o power.
http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/ind...?topic=10580.0Quote:
Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
Second post down, that just looks weird. "The streets are deserted, except a few nutters with cameras"
ps, there's also a lot of fake pics going around already (including that damned shark again).
Well, I just talked to my son in Newport News, Virgina (Tidewater area) and according to him, "lots of rain, lots of water, and 37 MPH wind, but still have electricty and cell phones. Hopefully it doesn't get much wose than that. For those north of that area, our prayers are with you. If you live in New York, don't walk under tall buildings, I hear cranes are falling from the sky:) Seriously, we wish all those on the east coast our best. Be safe,
Bob
Thanks everyone. Things in New Hampshire are ok. 180,000 without power and growing. Just saw that Massachusetts has 400,000 without power. We lost power at about 6 pm. But, fortunately we have a generator, so all things considered, I am doing just fine watching movies, etc.
Things outside of Philly (NW of city) aren't too bad. Heavy winds and LOTS of rain. Power has cut out 4-5 times but back on in minutes.
Heard from friends in Jersey that things are really ugly. Fortunately, they are all playing it smart and bugged out early.
I am hearing on the news, a couple days of heavy rain once inland, 3' of snow expected in some places.
It sounds like the fun is going to go on for a while. Especially where the storm finally stalls and turns back north east.
I'm watching the updates on the BBC.
"0111: Latest estimates of the number of people without power now range between five and six million."
That's a lot of people with no movies to watch.
And I was watching ABC24 on the lunchroom tv an hour ago. No sound, but I saw reporters with flaming buildings in the background, probably power-lines falling on things (i'd hope that they'd have already turned the gas-mains off).
And I've seen some good photos of manhattan with half of the lights turned off...
Snow and more snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by HDNitehawk
Oh well, snow is easy enough to survive as long as you're inside next to a fire (and the roof doesn't cave in). Should make for some good shots once you can get outdoors again...
edit: and if this link works, this is a cool shot of windsurfing in Chicago...
We are already experiencing the high wind gusts (around 45 mph) in Kenosha, Wisconsin! Nothing like they've seen on the coast but usually we don't see the effects from a storm on the coast for a number of days later. It shows how huge this thing is for us to be feeling it already! Looks like some shots of the waves down by Lake Michigan are in order!
I am from Florida and the idea of being in the water and needing a wet suit is simply a non-starter.
Working a big non-photo project on Long Island just outside of Kennedy Airport for the next several months... The storm has really screwed up NYC. Tunnels are flooded as are several subway stations - with salt water. I was wondering where the gators and rats went. Coastal Connecticut looks to be screwed up as well and New Jersey.... well it is New Jersey after all.
This well take several weeks to get back to 50%
Wow, you poor guys in the way of Sandy, copped a hammering. Thoughts and prayers are with you.
Sandy resulted in the fourth largest power outage in New Hampshire history....and yet, nothing I have seen up here compares to what I am hearing come out of the New Jersey/New York area.
I drove around at lunch Tuesday and took a few pictures. So, these were all taken at high tide about 16 hrs after Sandy hit. Nothing like what New York or New Jersey saw...
This is a marsh behind Hampton Beach with a nuclear plant in the background. Typically, this is 90% land:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8052/8...24f42548_b.jpg
Sandy-0117 by kayaker72, on Flickr
They used snow plows to clear the sand off the roads at Hampton Beach:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8056/8...9348ec71_b.jpg
Sandy-0118 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Hampton Beach seems to have held up pretty well. North Hampton beach didn't have any sand left....
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8470/8...b03903c0_b.jpg
Sandy-0123 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Still pretty good wave action:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8054/8...f0799201_b.jpg
Sandy-0131 by kayaker72, on Flickr
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8...ea4e6afa_b.jpg
Sandy-0154 by kayaker72, on Flickr
Thanks for viewing....Brant