Hello everyone and welcome to hurricane prep central.
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| Sand Bags in the basement |
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| 56th Street |
The rain is of and on as bands of it swing in off the coast. I arrived around 1 PM and we had our 1st meeting of the day. As I said in a previous post we are not that far above sea level so in the basement areas we have laid in a whole bunch of sand bags and plastic.
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| 57th Street |
Outside on both 57th St. and 56th St. we also place sandbags because when the rain is very very heavy the water runs down 57th St. and jumps the curb and tends to flow into the building. This is the 1st time we tried this technique for heavy rain will see if it works.
Everyone has seen large satellite dishes and we have our share of the them on the roof. The pointing angle for most of the satellites are about 45° above the horizon but in heavy winds you take the satellite dishes and you try to point them straight up in the air looking like a very large soup bowl. The wind survivability of the dish pointed like that is in excess of 120 mph which thank God we are not expecting here in New York.
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| The rear dish is still pointed at a satellite, the front is ready for the wind |
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| One of our uplinks |
It looks like it was a good day for Duct Tape sales.
ReplyDeleteHurricane Carol in 1954 was the first WCBS-TV live remote hurricane coverage - I believe it was a pool feed.
I watched it live until until 10 AM when we lost AC mains power.
--bOb--