Recent service history:
98/12/26: At the moment I am stuck for a way to get to St. Pete and look at data. The gage may or may not be fine, but our database is showing no data since 24/25 Dec. Can you check and E-Mail CORMS. 98/10/8: ML removed the Paccom and sent it to Paccom. They tested it and said it was fine but was set to transparent mode. Perhaps storm surge setting reset some parameters? Hope to re-install the Paccom late today or tomorrow. 98/10/05: On Thursday and Friday, Phil Librero and I tried unsuccessfully to get the St. Pete gage back on the screen. Apparently, it had been in storm surge mode since Georges' approach and had run down its batteries. It began transmitting via GOES on Thursday about noon, once the sun came out and recharged the batteries, but it still was not answering the PORTS radio calls. The Paccom and radio are on a separate battery so they continued to function even though the Sutron was dead. Now, the Sutron still does not respond to the login attempts from the PORTS base. 98/09/30: St. Petersburg water level stopped transmitting on 9/30. ML will go over there this morning to see what can be done. The base is connecting to the Paccom but the Sutron never responds. 98/08/19: St Pete water level showed a rapid change (6-inch drop) at about 0200GMT, around the same time OPT data was bad, on 08/19.Back