I setup an online cam to record our first Snowstorm of the year. The storm became a blizzard and hit the Jersey Shore pretty hard. The camera ran through night taking and uploading photos every 30 seconds as our Mt. Tiki Soki stood guard. All was working well until about 10:00am or so when the snow buried not only Mt. Tiki Soki but the wind created a drift right in front of the camera, blocking the view! Next time I will have to tape the phone higher up on the window.
I had hoped to capture the storm from beginning to end but mother nature chose to cut things short. It continued to snow through most of the afternoon. Oh Well, what you see below is a time lapse video from the night of the storm into mid morning:
Below are some images of the contraption that took the images to create this video. Unfortunately the app I use to capture and upload the images, MobileWebCam, seems to have been abandoned and is no longer available in the Google Play store. It still works on this phone for now. As you can see my camera rig was very impressive. It took a long time to build and setup! It consisted of: An old phone, USB cable with charger and plenty of blue painter’s tape.
I don’t know what the official snow totals for our area are but we did get buried. With the wind blowing the snow around it’s hard to judge but I would say there is at least a foot, and probably more, of snow on the ground. I hope everyone stays warm and well this 1st French Toast day of 2018. You did go out and get bread, milk & eggs before the storm, right? Nothing left to do now except make French Toast!
Snowstorm in NJ? Must… Buy… Bread!
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