A Visit

Just as I arrived home, Liz comes running around the corner. Did you see him?  Who?  The bear!!

Well, we have pictures that the patented bear proof bird feeder works!! No seed was lost, he could not get to it.

They also came to visit

 

 

Harricane Wrapup

Hello all,

This will be the final hurricane update because it is blue skys and going to be 80° here in New York today.

In the end, here at the broadcast center all we had was a number of roof leaks and all the sandbags we put out in the end were not necessary. We never lost electricity in the winds were not all that high.

The rest of New Jersey and on the NY shore were not so lucky.  There are more than a million people without power in the tri state area. This morning's commute took an extra 30 minutes as most of the streets I drive along between home and the office have flooding. There is even a section of Interstate 287 that has collapsed because a nearby stream undermined the road. The guard rails, the breakdown, lane and part of one lane is just gone. God knows how long it will take them to repair that damage.

At the house always had was one 40 min. power outage and no tree damage which was our greatest fear.

For those of you on the East Coast hopefully you had no more damage than we did. Tomorrow, I'm off to Los Angeles and hopefully the flooding will be all gone and cleaned up by the time I return.

Bob & Liz

My driveway this morning 

This was the traffic going to work on Saturday

Morning

My one bedroom studio apartment....  Well, it sure looks like my office.

8 pm update

The city is EMPTY - well...  no one is moving around

Broadcast Center door on 57th

Looking South down 11th Ave

Diner on 11th

Looking East up West 57th Street

The deck - now cleared

Saturday Evening Update

Hello everyone and welcome to hurricane prep central.

Sand Bags in the basement

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.

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.

The rear dish is still pointed at a satellite, the front is ready for the wind

One of our uplinks

The deck update

This is what it looks like when you take all the stuff off the deck and move it into the house!!