keeping an eye on things

[15_the_circle]

until the trees come off and their many tons of additional load on the cottage is shed, things will remain dicey.  have been over there a few times already this night and so far things don't seem to have gotten any worse. 

it is surprising how comforting it can be to check the status of network accessible devices in the cottage: a simple telnet response is the equivalent of a canary's chirp down in a dark coal mine. 

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[edit] the porch cam doesn't point in the direction of the fallen trees, nor does it work in the dark.  but if any motion is detected within its field of view a fresh image is uploaded and for once I can be grateful to squirrels for scurrying across the porch. 

Comments

[gracegiver]

It sounds like there's structural damage to your place. Oh my. I sure hope not.
Please keep us posted. I'm checking the cam and will again in the AM once it's light out again.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

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> It sounds like there's structural damage to your place.
>

yes, it's clear that some has occurred, but the extent and severity are not yet known. 

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> I'm checking the cam and will again in the AM once it's
> light out again.
>

the webcam image refresh is triggered by motion so the date/time stamp gives a last known good state for the cottage's network connectivity.  a quick realtime status check can be performed by connecting to the atcs server (the radios and computer are right under the trees' point of impact; if anything were to happen they'd go off the air right away).  the antennas did not survive the trees' impact but the radios and computer are still online and operational though I doubt they are receiving any signals.