Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[Marvinlungwitz]

:-(

[open roader]

Bugger...........

Animal impact?

[j44ke]

Bugger...........

Animal impact?

Yep. 8pt buck and his girlfriend. Leaped out of a field of corn stubble and ran alongside the car, then tried cut across the front of the car as I slowed down. So I didn’t really hit them as much as they kind of body checked the front fender panel. Barely an impact and yet the sheet metal crumpled. Could have been worse. No mechanical issues. And the deer just ran off.

[rwsaunders]

It’s that time of year, Jorn and glad that you’re ok. Make sure that your agent agrees that it was a deer-related incident, as most underwriters lower your deductible for such an event. I have visitors from the PNW in town every six weeks or so, and they are always amazed to see the animal carnage (primarily deer) on the sides of the roads around here.

[bigbill]

If you know where to look, there is a small dent on the passenger side of my pickup near the back wheel. Two summers ago, I was driving in Wyoming at dusk after a day of fly fishing at Medicine Lodge, when a deer ran out in the road in front of me. I was able to stop about ten feet short of the deer, but another deer piled into the side of my truck. I got out to check and didn't find the deer, but since I was stopped when it hit the side of my truck, it may have been stunned but still able to run off.

[vertical_doug]

It’s that time of year, Jorn and glad that you’re ok. Make sure that your agent agrees that it was a deer-related incident, as most underwriters lower your deductible for such an event. I have visitors from the PNW in town every six weeks or so, and they are always amazed to see the animal carnage (primarily deer) on the sides of the roads around here.

Whenever my wife and I drove to Michigan to see our daughter, she'd count the dead deer on the side of the I-80 thru Pennsylvania. It was carnage.

[j44ke]

Yeah. I hate this part of fall/winter. The deer are just nuts and all over the place. We get them staggering into our yard or on the game cameras in all sorts of disrepair, usually terminal. I’m pretty sure this started as a buck chasing a doe and then I came along. I drive looking for eye shine as soon as it is dark enough, and I know this technique they have of running parallel to the threat and then making a quick turn across the front to outflank predators. 40 degree night with light rain too, so I knew we’d have them in droves out in the fields. But this had the look of inevitability as soon as they jumped off the shoulder onto the road edge at full speed.

My wife says according to NYS DOT a car hits a deer every 16 minutes in New York. Explains all the body shops.

Insurance doesn’t differentiate on the deductible unfortunately but the estimate was $1500 and any unseen damage is handled directly with the repair shop. Neighbors all recommend the local guy who is (country) walking distance from our house.

[echappist]

Yikes, sorry to hear of the episode, and glad to hear that you are doing well.

Deers are a real nuisance with the traffic related issues and being a disease vector. Then there are the stories of a deer running alongside a cyclist and then proceeding to wipe out the cyclist...

[claritycycler]

My last post in "rides" I talked about the big waves locally, this is another level entirely, world renowned big wave break Mavericks near Half Moon Bay in CA 12/28/23. Few surfers in the world attempt to ride there, 40-60' swell, pictured is 50+- if the surfer is 6', water weighs 8lbs gal, lots of weight coming at you. Obviously not my pic, thought some of you might like to see what big wave/swell really means.

[htwoopup]

…… Then there are the stories of a deer running alongside a cyclist and then proceeding to wipe out the cyclist...

The one that took me out on the bike did a leap from a standing start but misjudged. I think she was trying to jump past me in front but sorta sideswiped my back and rear wheel. I was riding while my Volvo was being repaired (not from a deer hit) in Ste Agathe des Monts. The look on the face of the service manager when I walked in was kind of in horror. She had a mechanic drive me to the hospital up the road where they cleaned up the cuts.

I had a deer commit suicide by totaling a BMW ute I was a passenger in on the Taconic just south of Millbrook.

Jorn is just north of there so he is lucky to get away with a small body shop bill and no damage to his own body as the deer (as he said) are quite abundant up there.

[robin3mj]

Whenever my wife and I drove to Michigan to see our daughter, she'd count the dead deer on the side of the I-80 thru Pennsylvania. It was carnage.

Ah, yup. When we lived in Chicago, my flying-averse wife would make any excuse to drive back and forth to DC rather than go by air. And one fall, she was doing the trip east solo. Just outside South Bend, a semi ahead of her hit a deer which then ricocheted off our Jetta wagon at 75mph. (The car, not the deer, but who knows…)

Miraculously she was fine but the car spent about a month at a VW dealer near Elkhart before I could go and get it.

And then I had a further data point about how flying is safer than driving.

[j44ke]

Beastie Boys. No Sleep till Brooklyn.

[Tom]

Bears are still out walking around... it's warm out.

One of the ADK 540s, I talked to a guy that hit a deer in the middle of the night as he was descending off Hurricane Mountain toward 73. In the daytime that's a 50mph hill, easy. I don't know how fast he was going but he kind of giggled recounting how the deer went "Oof!" He and his bike were fine but he had to take the race directors spare helmet because his was broken. He wasn't planning on quitting for a little thing like that, I guess.

[claritycycler]

SB Harbor, Saturday brunch at restaurant patio

[robin3mj]

12/24/2023

[echappist]

I was reading up on the cubist artist Jean Metzinger the other day and came across this painting titled Au Vélodrome.

For whatever reason, this almost feel more reminiscent of a 2D-rendering of a Bauhaus design.

[j44ke]

Jan 9-10 we got 2+ inches of rain and that melted most of the 8-12" of snow we got Jan 6. This is the Tenmile River just south of Wassaic NY, taken from the Metro-North train window. Actual banks of the river are along the line of trees and bushes in the distance. Usually the telephone pole on the left is not getting wet.

[j44ke]

Some rough weather the last two weeks. The woodpeckers will be happy.

[Tom]

My niece's husband was posting pictures of their sugarbush (Moose Mountain Maple) up in Underhill after the two windstorms these last weeks. He says it's tough to be logging out trees you tapped two days earlier. Lines and tubing torn out all over by branches coming down where trees didn't.

[htwoopup]

A good storm. This morning.