The camera on the salt flats

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Is the camera system acting up for you?  For the last day or two sometimes it doesn't refresh for me, sometimes it does.

Whassup?

[desotoman]

Jon,

Here is the current view, and it works fine for me. Date and time at bottom of picture.

Tom G.

https://meso1.chpc.utah.edu/station_cameras/bflat_cam/bflat_cam_current.jpg

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Now it works, but when I first posted it didn't refresh.  I always look at the time stamp and it was stuck at 6.30 last night, for instance, and when I look at it and see the shadow on the wrong side of the cone for the time of day - - I know something ain't kosher.  It's happened a couple of different times on a couple of different days, on two computers - - that's what led to my query.  Thanks.

Take this as notice that it might try to fool you, girls and boys.

[AJR192]

Drove up to the camera on Sunday. The salt is really looking good right now. The short Course could be run on with almost no grooming. The long course will need some work. But is is drying out nicely. There are still a lot of tables and EZ up frames scattered all over. The tables are junk now as 3 months in salt brine has already rusted the legs off of most of them. Didn't find anyones race tires though. Hopefully next year we will have an even better track to race on.

[aircap]

Someone should pick up that debris before it becomes next years' FOD.

[jacksoni]

Don't worry, the great stewards of the salt, BLM, will take care of it.........

[gowing]

Did the BLM leave the crap out there on the salt or was it the racers?

[AJR192]

gowing it was left behind by the racers. The tables floated away before the racers were allowed on the salt to load up and go home. The easy up frames are more of a question for me as to why they didn't collapse them and throw them in the dumpster before they left. Then again, The SCTA left a large coil of timing wire by one of the cones on the short course. It's junk now too.

[Stainless1]

Maybe the ez-up stuff was left by spectators reluctant to drive through a foot of salt water...  Folks around us were pretty diligent about getting their stuff found and hauled from the pits... but I understand the SCTA had a large lost and found pile....
It was and sounds like it may still be a mess   

[Seldom Seen Slim]

It's about 7.30 Wendover time on Thursday the  3rd.  The time stamp on the camera is showing that it's 6.30 last night, even after a few refreshes.

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Must be a stuck jazzer? 
Or the thing-a-ma-bob fell out of the what-ya-call-it? 
Probably missed a grant payment! 

[Queeziryder]

Jon,
Perhaps it runs out of power in the evening/night, and starts again in the morning?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I suppose that might be the case  - but it hasn't shown this behavior in the past.

[desotoman]

Questions? Contact the MesoWest group at atmos-mesowest@lists.utah.edu

They would have the answer or could try and trouble shoot the problem.

Tom G.

[Stainless1]

Hey, maybe the battery is weak or dead... only works for a while after the sun goes down...
Oh, and it doesn't matter, with any luck it will be flooded for the  next several months.