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Offline SHANEA

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On The Road Again... Colorado
« on: July 30, 2009, 03:36:45 PM »
Very Short little videos I shot going to Colorado Taylor Lake area with my next door neighbor last week.  I've got a slew of pictures to go through before I post them - I'm sure you don't want to see 500-600 pics.  Went to Colorado because the air was cool and crisp - 70's during the day and at/below freezing at night.

We were lucky that we were just pulling into a town when the storm hit and were able to park under a gas station awning to ride it out w/o damage.  I'm always worried about the sunroof getting cracked.  It was a wild frightening looking storm - for a while it looked like we were going to run right smack dab in the middle of it.  Fortunately, the road curved away from it.  See attached pics. Reminds me of the Poseidon Adventure Adventure - the Original Version -
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"That's a frightening target sir and getting closer".
I've got that on DVD - perhaps I'll watch it tonight...

HailStorm-1
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-001

HailStorm-2
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-002

Royal Rush Skycoaster
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-003

River
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-004

Fly fishing
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-005

Stream-1
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-006

Stream-2
http://tinyurl.com/shanea-co-video-007
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Re: On The Road Again... Colorado
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2009, 07:47:03 PM »
I liked the river videos, lots of ice water coming down from the mountains.
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Re: On The Road Again... Colorado
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2009, 07:53:52 PM »
That was just a baby hailstorm!  My car got nailed by tennis ball sized hail back in Feb...  caused $4500 in damage to my Toyota.  Sunroof wasn't damaged, but my back glass got smashed in.  Would've never expected a hailstorm like that in Feb, for sure.
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Offline SHANEA

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Re: On The Road Again... Colorado
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2009, 08:28:22 PM »
Quote from: homerboy2u on July 30, 2009, 07:47:03 PM
I liked the river videos, lots of ice water coming down from the mountains.

Guess what, that water was bone chilling cold too. 
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Re: On The Road Again... Colorado
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2009, 08:30:01 PM »
Quote from: dkerr24 on July 30, 2009, 07:53:52 PM
That was just a baby hailstorm!

Something like this perhaps?  http://tinyurl.com/shanea136 - dad sent me this today - this was up in Pueblo Colorado this last Sunday I believe...
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Re: On The Road Again... Colorado
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2009, 09:28:35 PM »
Quote from: SHANEA on July 30, 2009, 08:30:01 PM
Quote from: dkerr24 on July 30, 2009, 07:53:52 PM
That was just a baby hailstorm!

Something like this perhaps? http://tinyurl.com/shanea136 - dad sent me this today - this was up in Pueblo Colorado this last Sunday I believe...

That still looked pretty small... maybe dime size, definitely not golf ball sized, surely not tennis ball sized.  Biggest I've been through is baseball sized.  That stuff put holes through the decking on the roofs of homes!

Amazing that people just continue driving through the stuff, even though visibility was getting really poor, and making the damage worse on their vehicles.
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