Monthly Archive: September 2011

Sep 21

Bay Area’s Largest house? – Carolands Mansion. . . .

Carolands Mansion – One of the bay areas largest homes. . . If  you’ve never heard of the this house, you’re in for quite a surprise. How could a home of this size go unnoticed in the bay area? Easy, just be located in a community that is strictly for rich residents where most people tend not to …

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Sep 12

Lake Elizabeth Swamped with Walkers. . .

On Saturday morning I encountered the largest group of people ever. I didn’t realize that there was a walk-a-thon happening. The walk was titled: Donate LIFE Walk for the California Transplant Donor Network (http://ctdn.org/). I couldn’t resist filming this large crowd. I like videoing unusual events that I come across, this was very unusual indeed. I’ve never run across such …

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Sep 09

Freak Lightning and Thunderstorm in SF Bay Area

Strange weather rolled through the San Francisco bar area Friday, September 9th, 2011.  Dry lightning caused a cool light show for the lightning deprived bay area residents but created a real workload for bay area fire fighters. Armed with my trusty flip camera, I  recored about 7 claps of thunder. The best flash of lightning are at …

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