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Snow Potential - Late March

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« Reply #30 on: March 30, 2010, 10:25:24 pm »

Conor and I went up to Glenshane Pass for our last run, this time between dusk and night fall, the road was closed by Police but we found another way up. On top the scene was astounding with +50mph dense blizzards with walls of snow blowing across the road higher than two cars stacked on top, it was a complete white-out with the car shaking like mad, it was impossible to see road markings or even lanes and cars and trucks where abandoned on top. We had to help push stranded cars back on centre. The blowing snow created huge drifts on the roadside over 1 m high which where sculptured into amazing shapes by the powerful winds, it looked like absolute insanity and unlike any snow storm we had witnessed before, it was more like a US major snow storm, we could describe the conditions as extreme. We got video and images, however at night it was dodgy going with slow shutter speeds and high ISOs which blurred due to the shaking of the car. A night I will never forget. Power is going on and off all over the place and the street lights are out with house lights flicking like mad. This is one nasty storm!
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