Chinook!

[REDVAN]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Nevertheless, I will be sheepishly throwing some thousands of dollars at a couple of new lenses this year, on the short, short end and the long, long, long end.

Cowperson

Just got back in from a short jaunt down to Fish Creek Park to take advantage of the weather. It was still nippy with the wind and all.

Got some good shots, but I also wanted to play around with some filters I got at Christmas, so we'll see how that turned out. I am tempted to get another lens, but I am not sure if it would be that great of an idea.

Sorry for small derail of thread:

I want to do some marco photography and am wondering if I should get a lens specifically for macro? I don't know if it would increase what I can view or not, I better look up some of the camera optics before going out with my money.

[Rhetts_the_Best]

Yah i have had a headache all day, chinooks usually do that to me

[Torture]

I was at Castle Mountain today. Jeeeeez it was windy. It was to the point where if a whole bunch of snow was blowing in your face at the top it actually hurt

[Jayems]

Sweet jesus, sounds like a hurricane outside my house right now!

And the news just said winds will reach past 90km/h in the next few hours... wind warning in effect for calgary.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Sweet jesus, sounds like a hurricane outside my house right now!

ya, it's blowing harder than a hooker at a GOP convention here in Chestermere. i live in a concrete condo building and it's still causing things to groan and creak

[Vulcan]

Well get ready for some more. It seems like you guys start getting high winds a day or so after I get them here, and I'm getting storm warnings almost everyday. Right now it's blowing from the NW bringing cold temperatures. I can hear the surf pounding from about 100' below and 100' away, and cones and branches from a fir tree landing on my roof. Hope there's no damage and I don't lose my electricity again.

[SarichFan]

The wind isn't too bad up on the Hill in West Springs.. SW

[MelBridgeman]

Still stuck in Vancouver and the winds here are reaking havoc on the city...there are pretty powerful right now..usually that means chinook in Calgary...the pineapple express they call it..so its coming people and i will be back soon to enjoy it!

[lambeburger]

the wind is so strong its shaking my satellite dish and causing a loss in signal

[Sainters7]

Goddamn do I miss those things. Haven't lived in Calgary for three years, in Edmonton the snow just doesnt go away from October-April...

[Bob]

Originally Posted by lambeburger

the wind is so strong its shaking my satellite dish and causing a loss in signal

You think that's bad? My entire *house* is shaking (albeit only slightly) with the wind right now, but it was enough to wake me up and start checking for damages. Amazingly I slept through what sounds like a really noisy windstorm, but now I have no idea how I'm going to get back to sleep.

[Regulator75]

I got maybe an hour of sleep last night... Crazy ass wind.

[MacDougalbry]

Originally Posted by SarichFan

The wind isn't too bad up on the Hill in West Springs.. SW

You must live in a more protected area, because where I am in West Springs the wind was pretty bad last night...

[Resolute 14]

The wind down south is probably running at 70-steady. Unbelievable.

It would be about 34 degrees out if it shifted back from the west.

[Barnes]

If anyone sees my patio table, PM me. Its square and beige. Last seen at 10,000 ft above Copperfield.

[Cowperson]

We're on the side of a west-facing hill with nothing between us and the mountains so it was quite ferocious last night . . . . yet I slept the sleep of the dead!! I think I got used to it a while ago.

However, it was quite refreshing and hair-raising to do the in-out, in-out of opening and closing my gate for my vehicle this morning.

Truthfully, I've seen it worse. A lot worse.

Cowperson

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Barnes

If anyone sees my patio table, PM me. Its square and beige. Last seen at 10,000 ft above Copperfield.

Found it:

[fredr123]

There are a lot of dumpsters in my neighborhood because of the new homes being built. Any kind of refuse on the job site that isn't at the bottom of the dumpster is now all down the street. Lucky for me, we have a long fence that runs parallel to the street so we'll no doubt have an awesome collection of home construction crap to clean up this afternoon.

[habernac]

got a nice push into work this morning, though I'm hoping for the winds to die down this afternoon as it'll be a hellish bike ride home if the velocity continues to be 30+km/h.

[SarichFan]

Originally Posted by MacDougalbry

You must live in a more protected area, because where I am in West Springs the wind was pretty bad last night...

It got crazy at about 2am. Before that, not much at all.