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Spexxvet 09-26-2011 08:41 AM

Webcams near you
 
This is the closest to me, at least on this site.

http://www.trafficland.com/city/PHL/camera/9637/

Which one is closest to you?

jimhelm 09-26-2011 08:46 AM

http://pub2.camera.trafficland.com/i...82173714925574

this is just across the street, pointed at the liquor store on the other side of the circle.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 08:54 AM

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I guess the webcam in my bedroom wouldn't be considered a traffic cam? Oh, yeah, there would have to be traffic, right? Noooooooooo traffic there. None. Nada. :lol:

Closest to work:

glatt 09-26-2011 08:58 AM

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Here's one 3 blocks from me. It's not the closest, but I could go out there and wave to you. Or hold up signs.

http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/...162/index.html

monster 09-26-2011 09:13 AM

http://www.trafficland.com/city/PHL/camera/9637/

but it's a good 15 miles away

Perry Winkle 09-26-2011 09:16 AM

Right outside of my office.

http://www.deq.mt.gov/WebCam.mcpx

It looks out over the valley at the "Sleeping Giant."

http://161.7.29.11/axis-cgi/jpg/imag...=1317046555294

jimhelm 09-26-2011 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 758519)
Here's one 3 blocks from me. It's not the closest, but I could go out there and wave to you. Or hold up signs.

http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/...162/index.html

I think you should do that on your lunch.

let's open suggestions for what to put on these signs.

I'm thinking: Iron my shirt Bitch! might get you some weird looks

How about GOD HATES TRAFFIC CAMS!!

grynch 09-26-2011 09:32 AM

this is not the nearest.. .it's about 3 miles away , but its the best view..

http://en.swisswebcams.ch/webcam/zoo...8re%29_Weather


http://195.176.237.120/climacity.ch/...ge_800x600.jpg

monster 09-26-2011 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimhelm (Post 758526)
I think you should do that on your lunch.

let's open suggestions for what to put on these signs.

I'm thinking: Iron my shirt Bitch! might get you some weird looks

How about GOD HATES TRAFFIC CAMS!!

CELLAR MORANS

WHALE PENIS

I"M NOT SORRY ABOUT UR FINGER

monster 09-26-2011 10:13 AM

So, Glatt, midday Eastern with a sign that says "Whale Penis". I'll be watching.....

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 10:19 AM

How about:

My traffic cam was killed on 9/11, you insensitive bastards!

Our traffic cam brings all the boys to the yard.

85% of webcams are the fault of top management.

Webcams are God Damn Fools!

glatt 09-26-2011 10:20 AM

I'll swing by that camera. I'm wearing a striped polo shirt. You won't be able to miss me. But if I hold a sign, it will be rather small. All I have are these little yellow post-its.

I'll be there at 12:15 Eastern. That's one hour from now.

Somebody take a screenshot.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 10:23 AM

Synchronize your watches.

glatt 09-26-2011 10:29 AM

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I just went back to the webcam to see exactly where it is, and they changed where it was pointing. I won't get such a close-up.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 10:32 AM

omg...QUICK. Look for three squiggly lines on your phone! They're on to you!

I mean, you mention it, and they move it? That is NOT a coincidence! They're watching you, watching everyone, to prevent tomfoolery and shenanigans.

glatt 09-26-2011 10:42 AM

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Yeah, well at least I know where it is now. Before I was going to have to be walking around to all 12 corners at that intersection looking for the 4 manhole covers on the sidewalk. But now I know exactly where it is.

I'm seriously going to be there at 12:15, which is in just about half an hour.
http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/...162/index.html

Can you take a screen shot?

edit:
People are going to have to walk around me. It's starting to get busy out there with the lunch hour foot traffic.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 10:42 AM

I'll try but don't count on me. I'm not to be counted on.

NEED BACKUP!

I've got it set up. I'm going early to the cafe for lunch so I can be back here.

:)

SamIam 09-26-2011 10:53 AM

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Although we have one here in town about 3 miles from me, its not working. The closest working one is about 100 miles away in Telluride. I should be driving through there in a day or two.

jimhelm 09-26-2011 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 758554)
Yeah, well at least I know where it is now. Before I was going to have to be walking around to all 12 corners at that intersection looking for the 4 manhole covers on the sidewalk. But now I know exactly where it is.

I'm seriously going to be there at 12:15, which is in just about half an hour.
http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/...162/index.html

Can you take a screen shot?

edit:
People are going to have to walk around me. It's starting to get busy out there with the lunch hour foot traffic.

I will try ... i never know when i'm going to catch a deal

SamIam 09-26-2011 11:02 AM

I will try, too. But I'm cyber challenged. Will do my best, tho.

jimhelm 09-26-2011 11:13 AM

3 MINUTES!

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:16 AM

He just keeps looking at his phone and looknig back up! :lol2:

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:17 AM

MOON!!!!!!!!!

jimhelm 09-26-2011 11:17 AM

see you there i think?

step right a bit

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:19 AM

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Crud, missed the wave.

glatt 09-26-2011 11:20 AM

Yeah, I was trying to check in, but was having trouble with the phone. Anyway, I felt a little silly standing there. I waved a few times...

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:20 AM

Tomorrow I'll return the favor. At about 7:45 a.m. watch for a stopped yellow Beetle along I-75, I'll be standing on the retaining wall, waving.

Not really.

That was great, glatt! Thanks! I giggled my face off!

jimhelm 09-26-2011 11:26 AM

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did you see robo cop sneak by? that was cool!

SamIam 09-26-2011 11:46 AM

Drat! I got to dinking around on something else and forgot the time, but nice work Jim and IM!

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:48 AM

I didn't catch Robo-cop!

That picture is headed for the Time-Life Timeless Photographs Collector's Edition!

jimhelm 09-26-2011 11:53 AM

the 'mysteriously has no shadow' section?

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 11:55 AM

Are you tryin' to tell me glatt is a wampire?

SHOPPED. ALL THOSE PICTURES ARE SHOPPED! That isn't even glatt. It's just some random guy.

:lol:

footfootfoot 09-26-2011 12:00 PM

just some random guy should be Glatt's user title.

The nearest webcams to me are an hour away.

glatt 09-26-2011 12:01 PM

And I'm back.

Thanks for grabbing those screen shots!

It's even weirder than you can imagine, just standing there on the sidewalk as people are walking by. If you look up at the camera, they make eye contact with you because they think you are looking at them and are about to ask them for money, but you are dressed nice, so what's your game, mister?. So I fidgeted with my phone a bit, trying to check in that way, but it wasn't cooperating.

Anyway it was fun. There is an auction house just a couple blocks from there and Mondays are exhibition day before the Tuesday auction, so it's always fun to see what stuff they are selling. There were a couple of old wax cylinder phonograph players and a box of recordings mixed in with all the other stuff this week. Neat.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 758588)
just some random guy should be Glatt's user title.

The nearest webcams to me are an hour away.

Call Monster's Taxi and get a move on it! :D

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 758589)
And I'm back.

Thanks for grabbing those screen shots!

It's even weirder than you can imagine, just standing there on the sidewalk as people are walking by. If you look up at the camera, they make eye contact with you because they think you are looking at them and are about to ask them for money, but you are dressed nice, so what's your game, mister?. So I fidgeted with my phone a bit, trying to check in that way, but it wasn't cooperating.

Anyway it was fun. There is an auction house just a couple blocks from there and Mondays are exhibition day before the Tuesday auction, so it's always fun to see what stuff they are selling. There were a couple of old wax cylinder phonograph players and a box of recordings mixed in with all the other stuff this week. Neat.


In HS the big trick was to stand around in a group looking up, and watch everyone else looking up trying to see what we're seeing.

This webcam adventure was so fun. I haven't laughed that much in a while. Thanks!

BigV 09-26-2011 12:33 PM

that was A TRICK????

goddammit.

monster 09-26-2011 01:29 PM

I missed it goddamn it! Do it again!

monster 09-26-2011 01:54 PM

This one http://a2cam.com/ is on my non-freeway route to the boys' school. maybe hebe and I will visit and wave while we're pootling about on Weds -she has a day off.

glatt 09-26-2011 02:01 PM

That looks like it's mounted in somebody's bedroom window.

monster 09-26-2011 02:08 PM

it is. they're pissed about cars hitting the sign on the island on the pedestrin crossing. We have newish crossing laws here in hippyville and people are getting their birkenstocks in a twist...

monster 09-26-2011 02:09 PM

if you see a red windstar with chrome flames on the front wing, wave!

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 02:28 PM

Why are so many people hitting that sign?

Geometry, people, you don't even have to understand it to use it. Let me help: the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. However, if all you have is a corner, you're just going to have to go a longer distance.

monster 09-26-2011 02:29 PM

might go by there in about half an hour.....

glatt 09-26-2011 02:32 PM

It only updates every 30 seconds, so you need to sit there for a while.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 02:33 PM

Oooh ooooh...go by really slow, picking your nose! And hit the sign while you're doing it. DO IT! DO ITTTTTT!

TheMercenary 09-26-2011 02:40 PM

On my laptop but you can't see it.

Lamplighter 09-26-2011 02:42 PM

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This cam will be very, very busy in a just a few days.

The Fall season Coho salmon run is beginning and some very big fish
will be coming by... here's an old video of Chinook salmon.
IIRC, the long vertical lines on the glass are 24 inches apart

This is from yesterday and shows how crazy river banks get at this time of year.
.

monster 09-26-2011 02:44 PM

I know. So I'm thinking -if I can persuade Hector and it's not tipping it down, he and I will be using that crossing around 4:10. Anyone avaialable for screendump duty? :lol: We'll count how many cars don't stop for us. :rolleyes:

ttfn

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 02:51 PM

I'll look for you. Again, I can't be counted on, but I'll try. :)

glatt 09-26-2011 03:04 PM

Will you be in your car? What kind? I'll look for you.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 03:05 PM

Red Windstar.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 03:16 PM

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This one?

glatt 09-26-2011 03:19 PM

That was the only red van that went by. And the window is rolled down, so maybe she was hanging out of it and the camera missed her.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 03:20 PM

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I thought that too. At first I saw this van, but it's more maroonish:

glatt 09-26-2011 03:23 PM

You see that huge pack of people going by? Poor white car had to wait almost a minute for all those pedestrians.

infinite monkey 09-26-2011 03:26 PM

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It was some sort of street gang. Note the yellow gang clothing.

The Ann Arbor 'burbs are notorious for street gangs, yo.

edit: Hey, you can't even see the sign in this picture. It can't be totally obscured by that car. No wonder people hit it when it disappears and reappears like some Cheshire Stop Sign.

monster 09-26-2011 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 758651)
This one?

yup. that was after we crossed with a sign that said "hi cellar" and then stood on the sidewalk for a minute.

monster 09-26-2011 03:51 PM

We parked off to the right of the camera, walked back, crossed, waved and held up a sign, crossed again, went back to the car and that was us headed home.....

jimhelm 09-26-2011 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 758636)
This cam will be very, very busy in a just a few days.

The Fall season Coho salmon run is beginning and some very big fish
will be coming by... here's an old video of Chinook salmon.
IIRC, the long vertical lines on the glass are 24 inches apart

This is from yesterday and shows how crazy river banks get at this time of year.
.

i knew that bend in the river looked familiar:



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