This discussion requires more Jack Daniels.

[dolari]

Some webcams I visit when I'm feeling homesick, now with Canadian cameras:

San Antonio, TX - http://www.mysanantonio.com/multimedia/webcams/skycam/images/skycam_md.jpg

State College, PA - http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/ur/cam.php

Austin, TX - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/1814/austin.htm
Austin, TX - http://www.kvue.com/cams/

Seattle, WA - http://www.therainiervalley.com/webcams.html

Peace Arch Park - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/border/I5_PeaceArchPark.htm
Peace Arch Park - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/border/I5_PeaceArchPark.htm

Vancouver, BC - http://www.katkam.ca/

Inner Harbor, Victoria, BC - http://142.36.244.87:8888/ImageViewer?Mode=Motion&Resolution=640x480&Quality=Clarity&Interval=45&Size=STD
Vanier Park, Vancouver

Courtesy of one of the oldest links on the Clickorama, Tommy's List of Live Cams Wroldwide (granted it hasn't been update since 2003...most of the cameras work, though)

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Our tax dollars, hard at work

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

I recommend Pimms as an all-purpose beverage, usually cheaper than Jack Daniels.

Here are two more webcam linkies for your viewing enjoyment:

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam/index.aspx?cam=120 , which will show you the Inland Island Highway at Exit 88, looking northward across Cook Creek Road intersection; this marks the southern boundary of the Valley. Back when I worked in municipal government at Nameless City of Chocolatey Goodness, I occasionally would skid backwards through this intersection when the highway was icy.

http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/bchighwaycam/index.aspx?cam=121 , which will show you the same highway looking northward across the Hamm Road intersection, at the north end of our valley. For some years my daily commute took me through here, too.

Figured you might like seeing what a more rural part of this big lumpy island looks like: we tend to get our weather without sugar-coating.

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[emilydm.livejournal.com]

One May long weekend in either 1998 or 99, I snuck past the construction barriers and rode my bicycle up the length of the second section of the Inland Island Highway between Mud Bay and Courtenay, a couple of months before it officially opened. It was surreal riding down the middle of four lanes of fresh black asphalt in the middle of nowhere, in some places without the lines painted yet, with no vehicles in earshot, let alone sight. That's my most enduring memory of Highway 19. Alas, I haven't been north of Nanaimo since 2000.

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

What's really funny is that I still have all the design drawings for that chunk of the Inland Highway project: need to recycle them some day, if only just to get the shelf space back. Also helped with the design work on the Duke Point and Nanaimo Parkway segments back in the day; feels very odd and fulfilling to drive over a highway I helped plan.

If there's ever the Big One here (the Richter 9 earthquake they threaten us with everytime the earthquake-hazard programme funding comes up for review), well, guess I'm gone. Squashed flat under those books.

Third time's the charm

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I once had all this to myself. :)

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

>What's really funny is that I still have all the design drawings for that
>chunk of the Inland Highway project: need to recycle them some day, if only
>just to get the shelf space back.

I'm sure a certain set of road geeks, one not too far away from you, could prolly take those off your hands. ;)

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[emilydm.livejournal.com]

The next highway you design, please throw one of these in there: http://www.xkcd.com/253/ :D

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

Or one of these - http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm ;)

Re: Third time's the charm

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Looks like an IUD for giant squids. :-)

Re: Our tax dollars, hard at work

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, wish I lived there just to get a picture of the thing. Folks up here just don't grok roundabouts (and in Nova Scotia they just bluntly hate them: ask any Haligonian about the Micmac Rotary). There is one in the nearby [nameless] larger town to me, and so far three times there have been trucks stuck in the central flower-bed. Maybe sharp pointed stakes set in concrete are the answer?

Thanks for linky, though. Must see whether they still sell those shirts.

postscript

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

Don't do highway work any more, but it was fun while it lasted. However, all but one of the engineers on one of those route segments was named "Steve". Made for strange meetings:

"Is your name not Steve, then?"
"Do I look like a Steve?"
"Howsabout we call you Steph -- it sure would make things easier."

Yeah. Monty Python did it better.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

hey, I know who runs katcam.ca ... though I don't know where she is now. she used to work at the place I worked at before it closed.