Remember, you heard it first here! A giant spider is menacing Cleveland. No, it isn't red and blue, only out of focus.
So, what is it? The Cleveland Water Crib Web Cam has a spider whose web has been in front of it for some months now. Every once in a while he/she/it gets into a position and menaces our fair city's skyline.
I just thought I'd share.
So check the live images every once in a while (this image was from around 8pm today) and see what the spider is doing! Here's the spider in September.
Now for the real news. Why is there a web cam on one of Cleveland's water intake cribs? I'm not sure, but it is part of Green Energy Ohio's feasibility study of wind power generation off Ohio's north shore. Looking at the streaming data from the anemometers, etc. placed at various levels, we ought to be able to work something out.
Like Sarah Taylor (disclosure, she's my neighbor), I feel strongly that we ought to have wind power generation on the Cleveland waterfront. Check out her website, Windustrious.com, see the opening Flash presentation and get a feel for why this makes sense. Please approach it with an open mind; she has answers for all your objections, from bird body counts to lake-bed vibrations.
