Wind damage
Without a tone of panic in my voice, I take high winds seriously. All that rattling and rocking is just cause for alarm. A few shingles, gone astray, can lead to larger problems. Today, the winds were as strong as two days ago, but nothing came loose. Just across the way (OK, 80 km over open water, but visible on a clear day), the winds reached peaks of more than 160 km, about double what we received. And this happened…
I live close by a similar installation. A landmark. Although the site has had some vane damage over the years, nothing of this import. Yes, that was a windmill. Used to look like this:
I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions about high winds.
We finally discovered the source of that infernal periodic beeping: a special battery pack that appears to have more than a simple charging port. Plugging the thing in for a day or two seems to have put the noisy part back into hibernation (or satiation). Hopefully, I’ll remember the source, should things go off again in, say, a year or two.
Last evening, in a highly productive moment, I found an extra SD card and “burned” a replacement image file for the AIS receiver. Here we are, a full day later and I’m solidly online. Going to tag this one a success, as I wonder what will break next. I’d forgotten the adrenaline rush that comes from solving technical problems. You know, the kind that used to generate my pay cheque on a bi-weekly basis.
