🇫🇮 Etelä Haaga, Finland/Suomi (6-Feb-2001)

A short bit of video filmed using my Sony DCR-PC100E on MiniDV that wifey gave me as a wedding present. Just filming my walk to the bus stop to go to work ... I think this is shortly before I moved to the UK (Cambridge) and left Finland for good ... very sad ... would've loved to have stayed in Finland ... but, at the same time, Cambridge was a beautiful place to live as well.
I was living at Haagan Urheilutie 6 (Haaga Sports Road) in Etelä Haaga (South Haaga) at the time, and I was working at the Nokia Research Centre west of Helsinki.

[@MrWaalkman]

Both versions were a bit wonky, the black box around the picture of the stabilized version looked a bit odd, but I think that I prefer it.
Strange to hear that the Finnish buses slip and slide. Chains would fix that.
And the "Thumbs up" button changes its color to black once pressed, but doesn't increment the "Good" vote count. "Thumbs down" works as expected.
Edit: refreshing the page fixed the count.

[@BrfffTravels]

They just have winter tyres with studs I believe - never saw any chains on cars in Finland.
I set the iMovie stabilisation at 33% ... I tried to cut the video to sections where the stabilisation was needed (i.e. cut out when I turned the camera around to myself), but that just resulted in a zoomed-in video. I wish I'd documented more of my life in Finland when I had the camera, but you had to deliberately carry the video camera around with you, rather than just having a phone you could capture things on. Oh well.

[@MrWaalkman]

@@BrfffTravels Colorado has "Chain Laws" where you have to use chains on the passes or go home. In the Springs (Colorado Springs), I never took the bus, but I can't imagine the city risking it with each passenger one accident away from a nice payday. :)
Chains were such a PITA that you had to be pretty desperate before you would use them. You would freeze your tookus off putting them on, and then they would tend to beat the crap out of your car while you drove.
In Black Forest, ~2300 meters, and with much more snow, you usually could do just fine with studded snow tires. Not sure if studded snow tires are still in use in Colorado - there was a lot of complaining about the damage that they did to the road. I never thought that it was all that bad. These days front wheel drive with intentionally low air pressure in your front tires will generally get you anywhere you need to go. But be sure to replace the fuse for the lighter with an automotive circuit breaker.
I have the same regrets of not taking enough pictures.