It could be worse Patrick. We got even less than that and then it was 36ish and raining or feeling like rain all day. At least you had warmer temps coming into this shit. It’s been shit sandwich over here ever since 2010 got past 11 months old.
As you are inclined to say from time to time…fat city.
Man, K, you Nuevo Mejicanos really got pounded this time around. I hear from my buddies at BTI that last night’s drive home was one for the record books, fear-factor-wise.
Swell, I use a couple different cameras for video. The top end is an inexpensive Canon ZR500 Mini-DV camcorder that records to tape; this used to be the preferred setup for videophiles, but seems like most everything these days is digital. It will also handle live streaming video when FireWired to a laptop.
The mid-range is an 8GB Flip Video Ultra HD, which is a nifty little energy-bar-sized deal that’s pretty much a no-brainer to use and plug-and-play with any USB port on your computer. It comes with some basic editing software, or you can edit in iMovie or whatever you have lying around.
This short little snow video I shot with my iPhone. I’ve never used that feature of the phone before, and I was surprised at how OK it turned out. I emailed the videos to myself, gave ’em a quick-and-dirty edit in iMovie, and uploaded them to Vimeo, then embedded the player code in my blog.
Fun stuff to play with. I’m going to be trying more of this sort of thing over the winter.
Well, we can use every inch of snow we can get. Its been so dry here that the trees have been panhandling for water.
I spun the Subaru around 90 degrees into the oncoming lane making a right turn last night on the way home. Fortunately, no other traffic to hit as I was taking the back way home because the front way was bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see as I was leaving work.
Problem was it got colder as the day went on, so we had a few inches of snow over glare ice at Miller Time last night. So the ice was there as a sly surprise. I suspect that’s what gave everyone, me included, a bad case of MTSS, i.e., Motorist Tight Sphincter Syndrome.
I left the center of Los Alamos yesterday at 4:30 PM. Nearly two hours later I pulled into my driveway down here in the “banana belt” of Pojoaque. A very nervous two hours. Ended up sideways on the steep part of the main hill road, while going a blistering 5 mph. We got a healthy 4 inches of wet snow down here. Like K said, grateful for the moisture.
I’m sorry, but are you guys for real? Try a winter in Southern Alberta, Canada. This year we got about a foot the day after Halloween and it’s just been piling up ever since. Right now I’m watching more of the white crap drifting happily down to bury my hopes even deeper. Just like yesterday. And the day before. And it ISN’T EVEN OFFICIALLY WINTER YET. Please don’t post any more videos from Colorado Springs, it will just make me cry. Post something more uplifting, like a speech from that Senator McConnell about bipartisanship.
Chris, I remember fondly my three winters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. At times the snow was taller than I was. We built snow forts with roofs, parapets, turrets, two-bike garages, the works.
When dad got transferred to Randolph AFB outside San Antonio, we were appalled at the weather. It “snowed” twice — about a gram each time — and the schools were promptly closed and the whole installation basically went into panic mode.
In Bibleburg we basically get the occasional angry inch that sets the Industrial Christians to racing each other toward the hole shot for that face-to-face meetup with Jeebus, but that’s about it. Clear the sidewalk with a push-broom, la de da. I’ve seen more white powder drawn out in lines on a mirror. Or maybe that was some other fella.
Hey, I did my time in snow country. Grew up in upstate New York in direct shot of every lake effect snowstorm coming down from the north country. Dad had to plow the driveway with the John Deere tractor nearly every morning at 5AM.
Don’t miss it a bit. Northern New Mexico is plenty enough winter for me these days.
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It could be worse Patrick. We got even less than that and then it was 36ish and raining or feeling like rain all day. At least you had warmer temps coming into this shit. It’s been shit sandwich over here ever since 2010 got past 11 months old.
As you are inclined to say from time to time…fat city.
We got about six inches at the house. Santa Fe got up to a foot. Top management at the BF live in Santa Fe; they looked outside and closed the place.
No one is going very far today.
Speaking of snowjobs.
http://labikes.blogspot.com/2010/12/no-jail-time-for-martin-erzinger.html
Screw the snow and cold we’re going to Santa Barbara, CA!
Hey Patrick, what are you using to shoot your video?
Man, K, you Nuevo Mejicanos really got pounded this time around. I hear from my buddies at BTI that last night’s drive home was one for the record books, fear-factor-wise.
Swell, I use a couple different cameras for video. The top end is an inexpensive Canon ZR500 Mini-DV camcorder that records to tape; this used to be the preferred setup for videophiles, but seems like most everything these days is digital. It will also handle live streaming video when FireWired to a laptop.
The mid-range is an 8GB Flip Video Ultra HD, which is a nifty little energy-bar-sized deal that’s pretty much a no-brainer to use and plug-and-play with any USB port on your computer. It comes with some basic editing software, or you can edit in iMovie or whatever you have lying around.
This short little snow video I shot with my iPhone. I’ve never used that feature of the phone before, and I was surprised at how OK it turned out. I emailed the videos to myself, gave ’em a quick-and-dirty edit in iMovie, and uploaded them to Vimeo, then embedded the player code in my blog.
Fun stuff to play with. I’m going to be trying more of this sort of thing over the winter.
Well, we can use every inch of snow we can get. Its been so dry here that the trees have been panhandling for water.
I spun the Subaru around 90 degrees into the oncoming lane making a right turn last night on the way home. Fortunately, no other traffic to hit as I was taking the back way home because the front way was bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see as I was leaving work.
Problem was it got colder as the day went on, so we had a few inches of snow over glare ice at Miller Time last night. So the ice was there as a sly surprise. I suspect that’s what gave everyone, me included, a bad case of MTSS, i.e., Motorist Tight Sphincter Syndrome.
That we should always drive that slowly…
I left the center of Los Alamos yesterday at 4:30 PM. Nearly two hours later I pulled into my driveway down here in the “banana belt” of Pojoaque. A very nervous two hours. Ended up sideways on the steep part of the main hill road, while going a blistering 5 mph. We got a healthy 4 inches of wet snow down here. Like K said, grateful for the moisture.
I’m sorry, but are you guys for real? Try a winter in Southern Alberta, Canada. This year we got about a foot the day after Halloween and it’s just been piling up ever since. Right now I’m watching more of the white crap drifting happily down to bury my hopes even deeper. Just like yesterday. And the day before. And it ISN’T EVEN OFFICIALLY WINTER YET. Please don’t post any more videos from Colorado Springs, it will just make me cry. Post something more uplifting, like a speech from that Senator McConnell about bipartisanship.
Chris, I remember fondly my three winters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. At times the snow was taller than I was. We built snow forts with roofs, parapets, turrets, two-bike garages, the works.
When dad got transferred to Randolph AFB outside San Antonio, we were appalled at the weather. It “snowed” twice — about a gram each time — and the schools were promptly closed and the whole installation basically went into panic mode.
In Bibleburg we basically get the occasional angry inch that sets the Industrial Christians to racing each other toward the hole shot for that face-to-face meetup with Jeebus, but that’s about it. Clear the sidewalk with a push-broom, la de da. I’ve seen more white powder drawn out in lines on a mirror. Or maybe that was some other fella.
Hey, I did my time in snow country. Grew up in upstate New York in direct shot of every lake effect snowstorm coming down from the north country. Dad had to plow the driveway with the John Deere tractor nearly every morning at 5AM.
Don’t miss it a bit. Northern New Mexico is plenty enough winter for me these days.