Re: [APML] OT: Wind?

["Jim Vineyard" <sky4me@msn.com>]

Southern California Wind?
  I can't help adding I was out last night traveling around 45 mph while
being hit by a 100 mph literally 8 foot by 12 foot tumbleweed coming in the
opposite direction.  Put a nice long visually dented crease in my otherwise
cherry-bodied Honda Accord's hood.  $500 deductible on my auto insurance, no
replacement ST-4 for me this month.  Grrrr.... X*&%$.....!  Damned
tumbleweed must have had a big trunk attached.

  I know, I know, off topic but I just had to vent!  I did at least look up
at the sky through all the dust last night though, and honestly my usual
astro-camera actually did happen to be in the car, and it's not a CCD.  I
hope that qualifies. <g>  I will be quiet now, knowing next to nothing about
astrophotography as usual.

Jim Vineyard

Visit my Astro-photography website at:
http://www.homestead.com/sky4me/astrophotography.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] OT: Wind?


> Hi Mike -
> Are you kidding.........? Heck no!  I was going to head to Tierra del Sol
> last night but after getting wind reports of 75mph on Mt. Laguna and 50+
mph
> near Campo(about 10 miles from TDS) I decided to stay home.  Even if the
> wind did totally die down, there is so must dust and crap in the air the
> transparency would've been absolutely terrible.
> Even here at the coast where we normally do not get the really high winds
> like the Cajon Pass and Santa Ana canyon region, I estimated them to be
> around 50+ mph around 1:30am last night.  Small tree branches and misc.
> garbage(paper and  plastic bags etc) we flying through the air.  It was
> truly the strongest Santa Ana condition I've experienced at the coast
since
> I moved here 11 years ago.  And to make things worse, there is a very
large
> fire south of me in what looks to be the Elsinore Mountains near Camp
> Pendleton.  The smoke is drifting over my home right now.
>
> Chris
>
>
> ==================
> Chris Cook
> Astronomical Photography
> www.abmedia.com/astro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Halderman <astro@mrh.org>
> To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:02 PM
> Subject: [APML] OT: Wind?
>
>
> >
> >Was anyone out shooting in Southern California last night?  Strongest
winds
> >I have ever had here.  I had to pack up when the gusts got up to about
> >60mph.  It is still blowing like crazy.
> >
> >-mike
> >
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