Webcams: East Coast Sunrise and West Coast Sunset

 Since Lake Erie is beginning to freeze over, I will likely be losing my beautiful sunrise and sunset views from its webcams. I have begun to collect webcams from the East Coast and West Coast to watch the sunrise and sunset. These are all YouTube cameras which retain about a 12 hour loop so you can go back and replay the sunrise or sunset if you missed it. Below are a selection for your viewing pleasure. All these YouTube cameras have picture within a picture functions.  If you click on it, it becomes a little picture in the lower right- hand corner which you can monitor while doing other work, or while watching another camera full view as a screen saver.

Gorgeous day in Myrtle Beach!

 Live look from Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark!

Vacation Myrtle Beach

 

Started streaming on Jun 1, 2022

This one is actually turned toward the sunrise at the beginning of the day

but more southward during the day.

Live Myrtle Beach View - Captain's Quarters Resort

Vacation Myrtle Beach

Started streaming on Nov 9, 2022

This one is always pointed at the same direction 

which is slightly northward

it will probably pickup sunrises as the year progresses.

Hamptons.com - LIVE!

 Tiana Beach, Hampton Bays, New York

This is the best Hampton beach camera for picking up the sunrise

All the YouTube cameras have sound 

but the Hamptons have the best sound because they are the closest to the waves.

Hamptons.com LIVE! SAGG MAIN BEACH, Sagaponack, New York

Started streaming on Jan 16, 2024

While this webcam does not get the sunrise

it is very good during the rest of the day and gets the sunset.

Again good wave sound.

805 Webcams Pismo Beach Webcam - Shore Cliff

This camera has about a 180-degree view through preset, 

every 30 seconds it hops to a new preset.

Right now its after 5pm sunsets are after 8pm

So we can view this until about 9pm 

when we turn YouTube to the Saint Meinrad Monks 

who celebrated vespers earlier at 5pm central time 

South Haven Light - 360° Live Lighthouse Cam on Lake Michigan

Historical Association of South Haven

3.36K subscribers

Started streaming on Dec 10, 2024

Is this the webcam of the future?

This is one of those 365 degree vertical and horizontal camera.

which you can change view direction by moving your cursor.

Fairport Harbor has two lighthouses. 

The modern functional one at the end of the break water.

The old historic museum one up on the hill.

They should install these cameras on both.

They are always trying rather unsuccessfully to attract tourists.

Maybe they could become the Myrtle Beach

and Hamptons of the Northcoast?

One-Twentieth of One Percent of Transgender Youths Received Gender-Affirming Care

Here is a link to a TikTok from a doctor I follow regarding statistics on how many of 5.1 million young  transgender individuals over a four-year period (2018-2022) actually received gender-affirming medical care (puberty blockers, hormones). The number was 0.05 percent. (Turn on the sound at the lower right corner.)

The information is from a JAMA Research Letter. You may find Dr Eric to be a trifle partisan, especially toward the end.

New Year's Resolutions and Predictions

 I often make some New Year resolutions (I less often keep them!) To me  New Year's resolutions are different from Lenten practices, which tend to be more spiritually oriented. 

My New Year's resolutions are sometimes things I don't want to do, but know I need to. This year's joint resolution, together with my husband, is to update our wills. Actually it is to make them in the first place, because we don't have one. Irresponsible, I know, but it's going to be pretty much the same as the one the state has for someone who dies intestate. Also to have in writing medical directives (my husband has one, I don't, except verbally). And funeral plans. We have life insurance policies to cover that. So much fun.

Not quite as weighty, but also needs to be done, start giving away or discarding stuff we don't need and don't use. After being in this house almost 30 years, there's a bunch of that.

Now for predictions. Those are more entertaining to make than wills and funeral plans, but hit and miss as far as actually coming true. My first one is that the Trump and Musk bromance is going to have a break-up, relatively soon. It is going to reflect the larger conflict of interest between the Silicon Valley tech bros, and the actual MAGA populists, especially given the contempt those two factions have for each other. 

Another prediction is that at least one, and maybe more, of Trump's cabinet picks isn't going to make the cut. Most likely fail is RFK Jr. Trump is already backpedaling about vaccines, saying that preventing polio is actually a good thing. RFK on the other hand, is hard core anti-vax, and is on record as having exacerbated a measles outbreak in Samoa. He is going to get lots of pushback from Congress.

Another prediction is that Trump will have to deal with a foreign policy crisis before six months have gone by. It might be China, making moves on Taiwan's sovereignty. Or it might be trouble with Mexico. Trump has already antagonized Claudia Sheinbaum. He always has *cute* nicknames for everyone. Hers is Claudia Shiny-bum. But worse than that is not recognizing the help Mexico has already given the US with immigration issues. 

Do any of you want to have a go at resolutions or predictions?

Rest in Peace, Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024.  He was 100 years old, the only US president who has lived to that age.

There is a good article about his presidency, and its challenges and accomplishments, by Heather Cox Richardson:  December 29, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

From the article (and some personal notes at the end):

It's beginnin' to feel a lot like Stressmas

Sometimes, the normal amount of holiday stress just isn't enough.

Cookie season

Photo from cream cheese kolacky recipe at https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10231/cream-cheese-kolacky/

This is baking week in our house.  

Yes!

Biden commutes the death sentences to life in prison for 37 of the 40 federal inmates who were sentenced to death:

https://omaha.com/news/nation-world/government-politics/biden-death-row-federal-inmates-commutes-sentences-life-in-prison/article_c292a15a-3c1f-5645-b124-0a4de1176dec.html?utm_source=omaha.com&utm_campaign=news-alerts&utm_medium=cio&lctg=eef30702dc07bddc03&tn_email_eh1=68b1d0cb60e326acca164e40885f6bd305b2e1afcdf5d66d4317190ba37ea108

I'm sure MAGA world will have a conniption fit over it, but too bad!