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<DIV>Hey Big Guy, sorry about your misfortune. Glad you are OK though.</DIV>
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<DIV>if you have somewhere to keep them, my advice would be to wash them off
with clean water and let them dry out. Then you could haul them up to Nearfest
and sell them for parts. You won’t get much but at least they wont go in a
landfill.</DIV>
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<DIV>Again, sorry to see all the damage up there in your neck of the
woods.</DIV>
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<DIV>Let me know if you need a hand.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rich</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=wrip@mhcable.com
href="mailto:wrip@mhcable.com">WRIP-FM Studio</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 17, 2011 3:39 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=450@lists.vhfwiki.com
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [450] BA's</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Folks:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Three weeks ago tomorrow, my area of the
Northern Catskills, a mountain valley about 35 miles west of the New York State
Thruway and 50 miles southwest of Albany, was hit by the heavy rains and winds
of Tropical Storm Irene. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Some 14 inches of rain fell inside of ten hours
during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 28th. The storm surge
overwhelmed spillways, culverts and the single creek that feeds the New York
City Watershed system. The single waterway, known as the Batavia Kill,
runs through five mountaintop towns and hamlets, Including Windham and
Prattsville - two of the hardest hit areas situated along the Batavia.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Through the early morning of August 28th,
incredible amounts of runoff and debris quickly filled the creek bed. The
water kept coming, and by 8am we had a quarter mile-wide four to eight foot
river that engulfed homes and businesses along its path. Two homes
collapsed and washed into the creek. More than 70 trailers were washed
away. One woman was killed when her trailer split in two and she was pinned
against a tree with 70mph waters and debris.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Propane tanks, lumber, cars and even construction
equipment were swept away in a matter of minutes. That's how fast this
water rose.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'll never take flash flood warnings lightly
again..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My apartment is above a three car garage on the
banks of the Batavia Kill in Windham. Had I not left late Saturday night
for the radio station with a suitcase of clothes, my meds and a few
necessities, I would have been stranded inmy apt until Monday morning.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm writing here because I am sorry to report all
of my boatanchor transmitters and receivers were inundated by the floodwaters
and silt for over four to five hours. They were all sitting on a pallet in
my garage. I had no renter's insurance or flood insurance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>FEMA's inspector took pictures and an inventory,
but informed me that the agency has "one price" for radios when it comes to
renumeration for loss, so there might as well have been clock radios on that
pallet.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So - before sending these rigs to the junk pile, I
will offer them to anyone in this group who feels they might find a home with
someone who might even be able to restore them, for themselves or pay it forward
to a ham or JN in need.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Some of the gear includes a National NC-300
receiver, A Johnson Viking Valiant, a TRL Globe Scout TX (cherry before the
flood), two Johnson Rangers (one in need of a TX/wafer switch, the other a parts
rig, a Heathkit Apache Rx, and a Hammaulund SP-600 JX-17 (military) that had
been completely re-capped by the OM up in Pomfret Center CT years back (Antique
Restoration). Most were in boxes and overwrapped but I have not moved
anything or inspected anything since the waters engulfed
everything.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>One caveat is that the silt left behind on and in
theis gear is not something you want to handle with bare hands. I moved a
couple of items with my bare hands for the FEMA inspector and my hands burned
and itched for two days. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So - discuss among yourselves if you want to decide
who gets what or who will be a responsible party to at least give these rigs
some attention before deternining their fate. I go back with Tom
(Pipe), Bob UJS and Rich for some years and despite only having limited 2M
simplex QSO's from my fav spot over in Westerlo with the loop stack, I know we
have a great group of hams here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gotta scoot - that's the latest from the
Mountaintop.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jay</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>N1UJT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jay Fink<BR>Vice President & General
Manager<BR>WRIP-FM 97.9 & 97.5<BR><A
href="http://www.rip979.com">www.rip979.com</A><BR><A
href="mailto:jay@rip979.com">jay@rip979.com</A><BR>518-734-4747
(ph)<BR>518-734-9147 (fx)</FONT></DIV>
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