Betty LaRue Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Oh, I'll be safe. All the stuff is sneaking in about 3 a.m. these days. Darn it. Tornado season is just about over, and there have been few this year. Maybe I'll get one some day far in the future, while driving my jet-propelled walker and using a Fuji X-Z99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Oh, I'll be safe. All the stuff is sneaking in about 3 a.m. these days. Darn it. Tornado season is just about over, and there have been few this year. Maybe I'll get one some day far in the future, while driving my jet-propelled walker and using a Fuji X-Z99. I'm not sure that the X-Z99 will be suitable for bad weather. The spectacles that it will be embedded in will most likely fly off in the high winds. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Oh, I'll be safe. All the stuff is sneaking in about 3 a.m. these days. Darn it. Tornado season is just about over, and there have been few this year. Maybe I'll get one some day far in the future, while driving my jet-propelled walker and using a Fuji X-Z99. I'm not sure that the X-Z99 will be suitable for bad weather. The spectacles that it will be embedded in will most likely fly off in the high winds. Alan ROFL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 Chasing storms, Betty? Here in the UK we just saunter after light drizzle... And most of the time we don't even need to saunter after it. Alan Hmmm, I know for a fact that you all have gotten some high crashing waves in the past year! Didn't a photographer or just a person with a camera get washed away or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inchiquin Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Hmmm, I know for a fact that you all have gotten some high crashing waves in the past year! Didn't a photographer or just a person with a camera get washed away or something? We've had some pretty severe weather on a number of occasions over the last few years. I don't specifically recall a photographer being washed away but there have certainly been fatalities. However, this week I've been on holiday in Wales and I've had the best holiday weather-wise for many a year. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I grew up in a highrise on the lakefront in Chicago and my I am at now condo is in a highrise across from the park and lake as well. I never remember having as high winds as we have had for the past 7 years. In September of 2007 the winds here reached 80+ mph and the tornado sirens blared for the first time in the city at least to my knowledge.Quite scary when your building is surrounded by wall to wall windows and you can see your closed windows expanding and contracting from the high winds. The next morning huge trees that had been planted decades ago were uprooted and had to be destroyed. The building complex next to me had part of their roof blown off and cars were overturned,huge metal garbage dumpsters,street signs and lights also fell over and ended up a half a block away. From what I remember this came so sudden that the local weather men didn't have a handle on it until minutes before. People were injured,though nothing fatal. Before you'd venture out to capture one of those major storms,do some homework reading the sites of some of the professional storm chasers to know how to navigate and protect yourself.It's not your car I worry about Betty! I know one of the better known chasers was recently killed while chasing a storm. I use to be more adventurous when I was younger and had a car and probably would have been tempted as well. My building keeps the roof top terrace locked electronically so curious residents like me won't be venturing out in storms and high winds for photos. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 I grew up in a highrise on the lakefront in Chicago and my I am at now condo is in a highrise across from the park and lake as well. I never remember having as high winds as we have had for the past 7 years. In September of 2007 the winds here reached 80+ mph and the tornado sirens blared for the first time in the city at least to my knowledge.Quite scary when your building is surrounded by wall to wall windows and you can see your closed windows expanding and contracting from the high winds. The next morning huge trees that had been planted decades ago were uprooted and had to be destroyed. The building complex next to me had part of their roof blown off and cars were overturned,huge metal garbage dumpsters,street signs and lights also fell over and ended up a half a block away. From what I remember this came so sudden that the local weather men didn't have a handle on it until minutes before. People were injured,though nothing fatal. Before you'd venture out to capture one of those major storms,do some homework reading the sites of some of the professional storm chasers to know how to navigate and protect yourself.It's not your car I worry about Betty! I know one of the better known chasers was recently killed while chasing a storm. I use to be more adventurous when I was younger and had a car and probably would have been tempted as well. My building keeps the roof top terrace locked electronically so curious residents like me won't be venturing out in storms and high winds for photos. L Ahh, bummer. I'd find myself a good cat burglar and have him teach me how to pick that rooftop lock. What a wasted opportunity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 My building is very high security.The cameras would know it's you and you'd need the key fob that is tied to your unit to even get up there. Security would come up and you'd probably get fined. The wind on the 30th floor roof is fierce! It's bad that on a high gale force wind day you can't breathe very well once you step outside. I'm on the lakefront and bus drivers have said that the turn in front of my building is the hardest in the city when the winds are high. Also,from the door to the end of the roof,nowhere to hang onto!L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Another sunny weather pic.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin P Wilson Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 It seems everyone is trying to ride the weather picture wave. At the last count there were 25 weather stories on today's Live News (about 1 in 3 at the time). I suppose dawn is more accessible at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 weather photos sell good ones, that is km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWilliam Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Looks like Terry Mathews has got the front page of The Times tomorrow.... and very well deserved too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Murmuration. I love that word. The collective word for zebras is .....Dazzle. A dazzle of zebras. A perfect description of the stripes, stripes, stripes. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TABan Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 A murmuration of starlings currently mobs the Virginia creeper vines on our house going after the berries. And why are there European starlings in the States? Because some geniuses wanted to bring over all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare and did so. Starlings were the only ones that "took." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Mobbing is another great word. When I was in Alaska I got some shots of a crow harassing an eagle. I thought it was unusual but it's not. Crows often "mob" eagles. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 You make me think of Hitchcock's "The Birds". I'm a bird-lover, but those were some evil birds. It took me awhile after seeing that film to get comfortable with seeing a lot of birds perched on the power lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Lewis Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 When the weather turns severe, how many of you rush out to capture it? I can see doing snow, ice, flooding, but here in Oklahoma, our storms are something else. I so want to get shots of some of our menacing wall clouds, the kind tornadoes drop out of, but it seems most of the time when they reach my area, it is dark. Plus you can't get good ones in the city, you need to get into the countryside with a wide angle to capture the immensity against farm fields, and not be blocked by trees and houses. I've thought about driving west to meet storms, but then one can get caught in hail anywhere from ping pong ball to baseball size. Nebraska had a big one the other day. A young businesswoman got caught in her car. She curled in a ball, put her briefcase over her head while all the windows were knocked out. I'll bet she had to shake out her britches after that. I am fascinated by storm cloud images. I want some. I'm just not willing to lose my car to get them. Speaking of storms, tonight and the next few days will be dicey here. Like last night, it'll probably roll in 3 a.m. or after. Betty I agree with you Betty. The storms here in Alabama can be fierce. For me it's not worth the risk when there are tornado watches going up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.