{"id":14007,"date":"2014-08-07T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14007"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:07:23","slug":"14007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14007","title":{"rendered":"On the Summit Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now at the summit doing a last walk through the facility to insure everything is ready for the storm.  A lot of the gear has been turned off to preserve the battery and generator capacity, keeping the network and the key servers operational so we can monitor remotely once everyone leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The winds are picking up, some 60mph gusts along the summit ridge, a little less where Keck sits on the western side.  Looking to the east we can see some cloud features that might be the front wall of the oncoming storm.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to depart the summit in another hour and head for home.  I expect the drive down to be as clear as the drive up, mostly clear with wild cloud formations over the summits.<\/p>\n<p>So far today we have a hurricane, a <a href=\"http:\/\/hvo.wr.usgs.gov\/seismic\/volcweb\/earthquakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">4.2 magnitude earthquake<\/a>, and the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=13890\">plague of rodents<\/a>.  Just living in paradise&#8230; Anyone for a tsunami?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14008\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=14008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14008\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/EP092014W-600x479.gif\" alt=\"Iselle Forecast Track\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14008\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The forecast track for hurricane Iselle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now at the summit doing a last walk through the facility to insure everything is ready for the storm. A lot of the gear has been turned off to preserve the battery and generator capacity, keeping the network and the key servers operational so we can monitor remotely once everyone leaves. The winds are picking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Summit Before the Storm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[1836,1838,50,88,111],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14011,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14007\/revisions\/14011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}