The site calls it camera four and the label under the feed says the name of this valley, same name thats on my mail, and the skyline behind the parking lot in that frame is not this valleys skyline. I know what this valley looks like out past the wash, Ive driven it at every hour there is, and there is no cluster of towers like that anywhere east or west of here, nothing that tall, nothing that close together, and yet there it sits, grey on grey, dithered to hell because Im not screenshotting the browser, Im holding the phone up to the laptop screen and shooting that, because the actual screenshot function strips the overlay clock out of the frame and the overlay clock is the whole point, so what you get instead is a photo of a photo basically, pixels of pixels, and under all that noise the skyline is still wrong. six towers monday. I counted again wednesday off a fresh capture, same label, same lot, same angle, seven towers. a tower doesnt grow in two days. either the number is wrong or Im wrong or the feed isnt what it says it is, and Im not the one that counts wrong, Ive been counting things on this site long enough that Id trust my count over the citys website every time, the valve box writeup is still up if you want to see what fresh counting looks like, nobody wrote back on that one either.

My uncle used to say the weather radio gave you the forecast for a town two counties over if you had it propped against the window wrong, something about the antenna catching the far signal instead of the near one. I thought about that a lot this week. anyway the point is a feed can tell you the truth about a place thats not the place its pointed at, thats not a glitch, thats a specific kind of lie, and somebody has to be feeding it. I havent found who runs camera four yet. the contact page on that site 404s, which the other three cameras' pages dont do, just that one, and Im done pretending thats nothing.