Topic: Maw!!! I'm gettin'static on this here new-fangled AM radio!!!!!!!

[Intheswamp]

Not good technically, but neat on impact.   Comes from last night's second round of the deadly storm system that has wreaked destruction across several states.

Right click and hit "View" if the image extends off the screen.  A couple of more shots here http://www.beeweather.com/wxcamdtcaps.php , hit the reverse arrow on the slideshow control and go back a couple of images to get to last night's shots.  Ed

[SlowModem]

That's a dandy picture!   

[cospringswx]

Great catch Ed!

[Intheswamp]

Thanks ya'll.  I've gotta admit something....it wasn't just a scheduled webcam capture...I was fishing for shots.

There was some lightning going on early this morning (I slept through the first part of the storm  ) and I decided to try and catch some lightning shots with the webcam.  I was watching the live cam on beeweather.com.  Having already "right-clicked" on the image I had the pointer resting on the "View" button.  When I'd see a flash of lightning out a window I would click "View".  This would lock in whatever image the camera had acquired at that time.  If the image was a keeper I'd save it, otherwise I'd go back "fishing"....it was something to do in the early morning hours.<grin>  I'm sitting about six miles from the camera and timing was definitely an imprecise science.  

I've got to admit when I saw this image it made me grin. 

Ed

[Cutty Sark Sailor]

Catch my PM...
Mike

[Intheswamp]

When I get to the shop later today I'll check the computer that the weathercam feeds through. I had been saving 30-second interval shots for timelapse movies but the other day I decided to shorten the interval to 20-seconds.  There was a lot of lightning last night and I'm hoping there might be a surprise saved on the computer.  Stay tuned....(if you can get that AM radio tuned in, that is!!!<grin>).

Ed

[CNYWeather]

Great picture Ed!!

[morfeas2002]

WOW !!!

[Intheswamp]

Thanks again, guys.  Now I'm itching for another thunderstorm...but a safe one!!!    

Ed

[Cutty Sark Sailor]

Buncha 'likes' and shares up on https://www.facebook.com/Blitzortung?ref=hl
You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

[Intheswamp]

<chuckle>  Thanks Mike.  Looks like I had few extra visitors to the site yesterday and more so far today than I usually do. 

I uploaded the image to one of our local television stations and they aired it last night in their evening broadcast.  I missed it, but others saw it.  Other than seeing where they approved it for the "gallery" I haven't had any feedback from the station.  Hopefully the exposure will beef up user numbers.   My user number is very humble, usually just a handful of regular users.  I think I'll pick up a few users from that picture getting spread around...I've had some people tell me about seeing it posted by locals on facebook.  Here's a shot of what Statcounter is reporting...



It definitely rekindled my interest in lightning shots...and naturally we're moving into some nice weather now.   But, the good weather will be great for my honey bees!!! 

It's all good.
Ed

[SlowModem]

You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

I always knew he had potential!   

[Cutty Sark Sailor]

You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

I always knew he had potential!   

You can tend to go viral InTheSwamp... bees may or may not keep the skeeters away...

[Randall Kayfes]

Ed, that is really 100% fantastic!

Randall

[Aquatic]

Great photo of anvil crawler.

[Intheswamp]

You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

I always knew he had potential!   

Greg, coming from you that has to be a pun.   The principal at my old highschool always said I was potentially dangerous.

[Intheswamp]

You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

I always knew he had potential!   

You can tend to go viral InTheSwamp... bees may or may not keep the skeeters away...

It ain't the skeeters that worry me...it's those @)@#*!! copperheads and cottonmouths...they'll make ya lose all sense of manliness in the right situation and have been known to make some really big men squeal like little girls!!!! 

My celebrity life is like one of those one-hit wonders, that make a song, make a million and never do it again.  The difference between them and me is that I didn't write a song and definitely ain't no million dollars in the picture.<chuckle>

[Intheswamp]

kaymann and Aquatic, thanks for the acknowledgements.  As I've mentioned to others, the shot wasn't technically very good, but the impact is there.  I've seen both of ya'lls photography and this little webcam image pales beside ya'lls stuff.  Aquatic, I've seen some of your lightning shots...incredible!!!!  And kaymann, those desert shots are beautiful!!!

This capture has definitely got me wanting to get out with my digital camera and change some storms maybe.  I need to study up some more on techniques for capturing the lightening.  I've used CHDK on a Canon point-n-shoot so I may look at Magic Lantern for a few more features to give to my T2i. 

[SlowModem]

You're about to go 'viral', Ed. 

I always knew he had potential!   

Actually, that was meant as a compliment.  I'm very impressed with
Greg, coming from you that has to be a pun.   The principal at my old highschool always said I was potentially dangerous.

Actually, that was meant as a sincere compliment.  I'm very impressed with what you've been able to achieve in such a short time here.   

[SlowModem]

It ain't the skeeters that worry me...it's those @)@#*!! copperheads and cottonmouths...they'll make ya lose all sense of manliness in the right situation and have been known to make some really big men squeal like little girls!!!! 

We have some pretty big snakes around here, but they're pretty shy if you make enough noise.  What gets me is ticks.  I hate them, but they're everywhere.  I'm really considering getting some guineas just for tick control.

[Intheswamp]

Thanks, Greg, for the compliment.  I just don't do compliments well, I guess... 

As for what I've done with the website, I couldn't be where I'm at with it without folks like you helping me along...no way could I have this up and running without ya'll helping me...and putting up with me and my questions!!!  Thanks!!!!

Your snakes and my snakes definitely have different cold blooded critter DNA.  You stomp your snake at a cottonmouth and they'll come running for you around here!!!  Ornery, mean suckers!!!  Copperheads are a bit more laid back...as far as pit vipers go!!!    If I'm in the swamp or in the back forty and see one that's not around our small populated space then I just swing wide of them and we both go on our merry way...if I find them in the populated zone or back at the house (sight impaired MIL and grandchidren there) then they're history.  Rattlers fall into the same categories...folks say "well, you can hear them so they give you a warning"...not for me, I'm about deaf and have to be 4-5 feet from one and have my head tilted "just right" before I hear some faint buzzing!!!  I've been in the woods/swamp a LOT in my life and really wonder just how many rattlers I've walked by/over.   I don't like to kill things needlessly, but family trumps snakes..

I was all set to build a chicken coop and get some yard chickens and *maybe* some guineas when I inherited two dogs from my mother.  One of them recently died (actually poisoned    which *really* bothers me).  Probably when the other one passes on (may be years yet) I'll warm the chicken idea up some.  Guineas are supposed to be very good for thinning out the tick population.  We have them down here, too...I seriously think a high population of deer causes a higher population of ticks...maybe coyotes contribute, too.  I can't ticks, either, nasty bloodsuckers just give me the creeps!!!!  I got some "skeeter Ban" and wallyworld a few years ago...basically a citronella concoction.  I first used it for mosquitoes and then started noticing the ticks weren't bothering me.  I simply spray some on the cuff of my pants, on my shirt sleeves and some on my baseball cap.  Surprised me how well it worked...and basically harmless.

Ed