civilized ku # 2052-54 ~ extremes - driving thru the snow, in a one hand kind of way
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 01:08PM ;)
Sunny day / Whiteface Mt. ~ flats / Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Scrapping snow and ice ~ Whiteface Mt. / Wilmington, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Poor one-handed driving conditions ~Jay, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenWithin a span of just 48 hours, we went from little or no snow at lower elevations, to a gentle 6 inch snowfall, to rain, and then to raging blizzard conditions. In between the snowfall and the blizzard conditions, the rain turned the top layer of snow to soggy mush. The blizzard conditions hit immediately after the rain and the additional snow covered the frozen surfaces on the road, all of which made driving somewhat challenging / hazardous.
Just to make all of this interesting, low temperatures for the next2 nights are forecast to drop to a low of -16˚F.
During the height of the blizzard conditions, I had to make a prisoner exchange at Whiteface Mt. The driving conditions were made much more perilous by driving with one hand on the wheel, the other on a camera and one eye on the road, the other on the camera LCD. Thank the picture fairies for IS (Image Stabilization) and the driving fairies for ESC (Electronic Stability Control). Without them I might not gotten a picture.
gravitas et nugalis
Featured Comment: Jimmi Nuffin (no link provided) wrote: "I'm tired of coming here and not finding anything new.
my response: What, a guy can't have couples of days of flu / violent projectile vomiting, which brings on a return of AFib, which requires an emergency heart procedure (Cardioversion), in peace?
Reader Comments (14)
Prisoner exchange? Another hobby?
testing.
Ah yes the exchange ours is the Catskill exit on the T-way
Prisoner exchange?
Well, breeding dragons myself, I was not the least astonished.
I'm tired of coming here and not finding anything new.
Mark,
Sorry to hear about your health problems.
I had the same procedure exactly one year ago. A Pacemaker was installed a few days later and after a few months on Coumadin (Warfarin in the US) I'm now taking Pradaxa.
Hope to see more of your photography when your health allows.
Also very sorry to hear about your illness. For me, an interesting story, though. My Afib has never been triggered by any kind of sickness - it just "happens" every once in a while and then goes away by itself. It's an intermittent thing, so I've never needed cardioversion. At least not yet. Sounds to me like when an occurrence starts for you, it doesn't stop on its own.
Hope you are recovering well Mark and that you didn't take pictures of your projectile vomit for your decay/disgust series. Get better okay?
No. Not when people come to your blog to enjoy your pictures. So, stay healthy.
Take care and get well Mark
You're a hard man, Jimmi Nuffin ;)
Get well, Mark!
Be well.
Hope you are feeling better Mark. Best wishes.
Best wishes for a quick and complete recovery, Mark!