{"id":5741,"date":"2012-10-30T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T00:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2023-04-09T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T16:14:52","slug":"a-day-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-day-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"A day in Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The aftermath:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Long<\/a>
Long Beach, used to be an isthmus, now it is a sand bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"A<\/a>
A set of old stairs on the beach where the cottages used to be located.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Surf\"<\/a>
Surf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"100<\/a>
Found the reason why the generator is not running<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Propane<\/a>
Propane tanks adrift from storm surge. There was a strong propane smell around these tanks, I secured all the valves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"WICC<\/a>
Where the propane tanks should be<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"debris<\/a>
Debris washed ashore during storm surge around the north tower, including a section of dock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Second<\/a>
Second high tide after Hurricane Sandy, noon on Tuesday, flooding the ground system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"three<\/a>
Three phase power line down due to wind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Three<\/a>
More wind-damaged power lines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Telco<\/a>
Telco wires were taken down by trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Generator<\/a>
Generator room water level, as seen on the side of the battery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More work here tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: <\/strong>Took longer than anticipated, but the station is back on the air with generator power as of 8:15 am, Thursday (11\/1).  Commercial power restoration is not expected until Monday or Tuesday at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: <\/strong>Commercial power restored on Thursday, 11\/8 for a total outage of 10 days.  One good thing about incidents like this, I now have a fresh set of contacts for all the important people connected to servicing this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The aftermath: More work here tomorrow. Update: Took longer than anticipated, but the station is back on the air with generator power as of 8:15 am, Thursday (11\/1).  Commercial power restoration is not expected until Monday or Tuesday at the earliest. Update: Commercial power restored on Thursday, 11\/8 for a total outage of 10 days.  … Continue reading A day in Pictures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245,220,164],"class_list":["post-5741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-am-transmitter","tag-disaster-recovery","tag-wicc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11489,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5741\/revisions\/11489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}