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howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

On my top deck last night in Cedar Park, gazing north watching the storm roll in, glass of Crown in my hand, awesome lightning show....

Wedge apprears, Funnel cloud forms, grab my new Nikon D60,.....

I can't figure out how to get it out of autofocus, will not fire, miss shot......

I suck. Where is my $50 point-n-shoot?

Nooga678 · Posted: May 15, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:

for the quick fix, flip the switch on the lens (if it has one). I just bought a remote to make extended exposures easier. I can't wait to catch some lightening.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

that was a hell of a storm last night huh? nastiest hail storm i've seen in centex in a couple of years.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

clements building downtown austin...

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Holy crap. Thats some serious hail damage. Windows on a high rise?

Commodore · Ladies Man Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 11636

Wow, was that from hail, wind, or both?

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

This sh*t gonna be gone by the time we roll in on Tuesday?

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

haugy - that's hail

chavez - already gone. we get spot storms every now and then. not often, but when they come big, they **** shlt up! we've had 2 others worse than this one in the 17 years i've lived in centex.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

jt09, last time I was in Dallas there was a heck of a cool t-storm late one night. I just kicked it on my balcony and watched the thing, it was sweet.

But I don't want to see one while moving my bro's crap in! Laughing

devon · Posted: May 15, 2008 7:48 am Post subject:

holy crap

how big was the hail

the last bad storm i was in was 2 years ago.
blew every tree down ripped the roots right out of the ground at my cottage
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jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

mostly golf ball size, some baseball/racquetball sized

it was a pretty isolated storm - ripped right through the center of town leaving sw austin and n austin untouched.

howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

We did not get any hail in Forest Oaks (excluding the occasional pea sized pellet)

I just went out for a coffee and there was a lot of tree damage in Avery Ranch from the hail. It was about quarter sized there for a while.

It was the most lightning that I ever saw in my 10 years in TX. It was so constant that it sounded like...... must not say it..... must not say it....... a freight train.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

odd that avery ranch got hit, but a bunch of other places up north didn't. right after i posted my last post, the news had a family in avery ranch showing their broken windows.

oshensurfer · Posted: May 15, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

Dragonlady8 · Black Widow Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 9198

Your camera is based on the point-n-shoot concept. It just uses different lenses.
Really not that hard to figure out. You can use this site as a reference along with your instruction manual.
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond60/page8.asp

savage3221 · Posted: May 17, 2008 12:19 am Post subject:

man, I'm upset I missed the storm, I love big storms here. But I'm glad I didn't get it while I was driving the 14 hours back from school.. would have sucked major.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin