Flood

The resident and resilient Moultrie trail cameras handle plenty of weather extremes with nary an interruption.  With a hat-tip to Timex - they take a licking and keep on ticking.  Yesterday I published a couple of photos of the deep February snows.  That afternoon I was finally able to access one remaining camera that had defied reach. Initially as a consequence of the frigid temps, secondarily the deep snows and finally almost two weeks of flood conditions.  The ice jams have finally melted the floods have receded and Silver Creek is now flowing at full force but within the confines of its banks.

As it turns-out this camera was buried by the January snows.  Here's a nice sequence of shots marking the rapid snow accumulation on January 28 and how - over the course of four hours - the camera succumbed to the rising snow pack.

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After the snows receded the camera went back to work taking pictures thru February and into March.  Alas, it could not survive the rising waters of a flood.

This is what I found yesterday - full of rusty water...

Between January 19 and March 15 this Moultrie Model A-25 snapped 882 photos until the rising waters did it in.  Its last gasp came on the evening of March 15th when after taking about a dozen pictures that looked like this it finally died.




Because the SD card survived - the legacy of this cam are the terrific pictures it captured in its last three months of life.  I intend to post selected favorites as time allows. 

In the interim I'm going to let the device dry out in the garage to see if it can be revived.  Yet I'm not holding my breath for a miraculous recovery.  The lesson of this parable is never spend more than about $100 on a trail camera...