CQ: Day 11: "No Rush Hour" in NYC: Times Square Empty

Cities are empty, and the webcams stand watch.

(From my AccuWeather.com blog today):

Outdoor webcams (such as those at Earthcam) are robotically, with no knowledge of the virus and no political bias, recording the lack of humans worldwide, something heretofore unseen, as the Earth quarantines from the coronavirus. Here are a few examples I've captured over the last week. This footage was recorded in Times Square last Friday at rush hour and again this Monday rush hour (see also widescreen higher-res version):

This next one was recorded around 9 a.m. ET on Friday, March 20, and shows the lack of people and vehicles in Prague, London, Dublin, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida: [video not available] 

The same day, I also recorded a slideshow of traffic cameras across North America. These were mostly captured around 9-10 a.m. ET, and most are stills. Shown: Altoona, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Detroit, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and, from Canada, Montreal and Toronto.

You don't need a webcam to see the effects of coronavirus quarantine... there are plenty of other ways to measure our isolation. These are scenes not unlike those in apocalyptic movies... and the webcams will continue to watch us as we work through this maze of confusion.

(read more on my blog, including satellite & drone footage...)