WeirsCAM Ice
 

Can some one please scrape the ice off the lens of the Weirs Cam?

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Yeah -- call Don and wake him up. He must've dozed off in his lounge chair up there on the roof.

Unfortuanately Don lives nowhere near the Weirs Cam.

No -- everyone knows that Don sits within arm's reach of the Weirscam, where he can readily wipe away water droplets, shoo away dock spiders, scrape away ice, etc. Next time you float by, look up and give him a wave. It's thankless work.

Along came a spider
 

Mebbe we should give the dock spider a small stipend (and some fur leggings) and have it stick around for the winter and scrape off the ice ? Mebbe we could train a pack of them to pull sleds and give the doggies a break ?

As usual, Mother Nature has cleaned off the glass window on the WeirsCAM enclosure. Even in the coldest temperatures a little sunshine usually does the job.

Every year I get a few messages asking me to clean the ice off the camera. For those who aren't familiar with where it is mounted, the camera is located on the 3rd floor roof of the Winnipesaukee Pier at Weirs Beach. During the winter I can't access it at all. The pier is locked up tight and even if I could get in reaching the camera would be very treacherous. In good weather I have to take a ladder up to a fire escape on the second floor, carefully position it on a narrow walkway and climb to the roof. Right now it would be suicidal to attempt that.

This is the 10th year I've operated a camera in that location. Every winter I cross my fingers that it will make it through the winter and so far it always has. I can restart and manage the camera remotely so I can fix most problems short of a total camera or cable failure. Usually the cable Internet service will fail at some point during the winter and Bob Andrews of Anchor Marine has always gone over to take care of it.

When you do see the camera covered by ice just wait for some sunshine to take care of the problem.

ps I'll be swapping out the current camera in the spring with a newer model that should give us a better picture and take care of the annoying herring bone problem that pops up intermittantly. After repair the old camera may replace the existing Anchor Marine CAM which is ancient by today's standards.

Thanks...
 

to the Webmaster not only for this bit of information, but for the Weirs Cam itself! It is so nice to get on and have a look...and a weather check...from this far away. Snow, ice, a spider...whatever is on it...we just wait for that to go away and have another nice look at home!! It's much appreciated!