Something I’ve mentioned in the past is having a secondary monitor or two on my home office computer setup and liking live webcam feeds running on them when I’m not using them. Hummingbirds, jellyfish, volcanoes, Venice, whatever.
Lately I’ve been watching a LOT of feeds from Virtual Railfan cameras, set up in train stations and train museums all over the country and just watching the freight trains and Amtrak passing by. For example, tonight:
(Image from Virtual Railfan)
My favorite site, Fort Madison, Iowa. LOTS of trains, plus the swing bridge over the Mississippi River. Plus the river, and wildlife, and birds.
(Image from Virtual Railfan)
Kearney, Nebraska. Lots of long, fast freight trains passing through every day.
(Image from Virtual Railfan)
Quincy, Illinois. I actually spent a lot of time in Quincy as a kid, my parents had good friends there from college and we would go visit them a couple times a year.
All of these images were captured tonight, either just before or just after midnight local time. Essentially, all on March 31st.
What’s wrong with these pictures?
The end of March. Places in the part of the country where I grew up. And it never, EVER was snowing heavily at the end of March.
Meanwhile, it was 70°F above normal in Antarctica this week.
Meanwhile, there were brush fires this week in Colorado and California, where we now have 12-month fire seasons.
Meanwhile, there were massive tornado outbreaks across the south, Texas and New Orleans, last week, months earlier than normal.
Good thing that climate change is all fake, huh?! Otherwise we might just be in some deep shit!
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