TSTMThunderstorm
Off The Grid
A personal study of an old rural house, covering its solar potential, climate, soil, water, and river, with an illustrated village history and a garden redesign.
Private station · observations withheld
Storm track
Time runs across. Height is maximum sustained wind, read from each status's METAR. The red ring marks the current position, and the cone ahead of it assumes conditions persist. A dashed stretch spans two weeks or more without a report, and the time axis breaks across it, marked // with how long it lasted.
Advisories /47, newest first/
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Advisory 47 TSTM Thunderstorm
Two more sessions finished, six of thirteen, each in a single sitting. The house book now rebuilds only when its printed content changes, and only during a general rebuild, so routine runs no longer take about 28 minutes. Finished renovation work shows on every 3D view of the house, and the garden earthworks are one figure everywhere, now counting the footings, which raised the estimate. The other seven sessions follow, with the book on the site, contact details, river-bank permits, furniture and tools, a fix for turning the 3D views, and the workshop and attic designs, then a full check with repairs until it passes, likely late on 6 November or on 7 November.
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Advisory 46 TSTM Thunderstorm
A run of thirteen sessions began, and four of them finished that day.
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Advisory 45 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Growth in scope. New work was queued over 3 and 4 November: ideas for a workshop and the attic, models of furniture and tools, research on permits for work on the river bank, and the house book on the site.
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Advisory 44 TSTM Thunderstorm
The house book is complete: ten volumes, about 1,590 pages on screen and 1,650 in print, built automatically from the site's own pages and models, with the plot plan at 3.3.2 and the room study at 2.2.1. The full check passed again on the first try, so the burst finished green, and work is paused until the owner starts six queued sessions. They fix the book's build clock and rebuild speed, add two map fold-outs and a few extras, fix the 3D houses and earthwork figures, and correct one reference in the research text. The book volumes wait on the owner's review, along with a few measurements and letters.
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Advisory 43 TSTM Thunderstorm
The full check passed 185 of 185, four fixes to the models landed, and the first volume of the house book was built.
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Advisory 42 TSTM Thunderstorm
The 3D models now use the scanned window and ceiling heights, the garden became one design across every page, and a house logbook page went live.
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Advisory 41 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Growth in scope. A round of the owner's decisions became eleven queued sessions, and new pieces are planned: a house logbook, a printable house book, an energy-year page, a works timeline, and room sheets for tradespeople. The first session finished at 01:16, and the other ten run through 31 October: mockups of the logbook and the book go to the owner around midday, and all of it should be done and checked by late afternoon. A few measurements and letters wait on the owner without holding anything up.
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Advisory 40 TSTM Thunderstorm
A day of fixes and redesign: the cellar floor was fixed, the shutter boxes drawn flush in the 3D view, an access area set in the middle of the solar array, and the attic walls cut to the roof. The plot planner reached version 2.0.0, redesigned to match the floor plan editor, with new Section and 3D views, and the room study now carries version numbers, at 1.14.0. All 180 check groups passed, four times over the day.
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Advisory 39 TSTM Thunderstorm
The 3D views got new mouse controls, and the balcony and cellar walls are now set from the scans. A solar quote came in and was modelled: 24 panels, 11 kWp, a 7.7 kWh battery, and about 12,000 kWh a year.
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Advisory 38 TSTM Thunderstorm
The owner's decisions of 24 October were applied, and the floor plan editor gained a 3D view of a single room.
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Advisory 37 TSTM Thunderstorm
A round of the owner's decisions came in, and a 3D view of a single room was mocked up and queued. The house model now follows the phone scans and the windows actually bought. Sessions are running now: the decisions are applied next, then the room view is built, within about a day. A few tape measurements and a reply about the heat pump registration are awaited.
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Advisory 36 TSTM Thunderstorm
Version 2.18.0 of the floor plan editor, redesigned with plan, wall, and 3D tabs, a wall planner for pictures and shelves, and a notice line that can be clicked away. The windows and doors are now drawn as purchased, and the heat pump's grid registration papers were filed.
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Advisory 35 TURB Turbulence
The stairs, walls, windows, doors, and chimneys were set from the scans in every model, the 27 windows and doors bought were matched to their openings, and the standalone room study was brought fully in line, furniture included.
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Advisory 34 TSTM Thunderstorm
Four larger room scans were added, all 16 house photos were placed on the floor plans, and a designer range of furniture and rugs joined the library, in 142 sizes and colours.
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Advisory 33 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
Work picked up again. Phone scans of five rooms were read into the floor plan editor as proposals to accept, and the furniture library grew to 293 items.
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Advisory 32 HIPRES High pressure
Done for now and in steady use, with only some minor data still to come. The main page's size limit was raised to 5 MB, against the page's 1.8 MB, and a new section, Design and renovation, now holds the floor plans, the room study, the garden plot editor, and the Renovations page, apart from the cards about the house and the village. The page's navigation links to it, and new checks catch a card filed in the wrong section. A few more layout ideas wait on the owner's list.
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Advisory 31 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
A long day of work, now settled and ready to use. A garden plot editor was finished at version 1.0, and the garden explorer, the fast viewer, and the main page's 3D view now draw the garden on the ground as designed, with a switch back to the ground as it is; the measured ground is untouched. The earthworks are priced as low-to-high ranges at published rates, the grading alone about €1,000 to €3,000 for either terrace scheme. All 171 test suites pass. The next sessions wait on the owner's answers to a list of questions, and the main page, at 99.4% of its size limit, takes nothing more until something is slimmed or the limit raised.
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Advisory 30 TSTM Thunderstorm
A burst of work, now paused between sessions. A new 3D viewer draws the whole village about 30 times faster, and an explorable garden lets each of its 144 features be switched on or off, with cost estimates. All 33 study pages now meet the new standard, and 9 of 12 modelling sessions are done. Two older standalone models are brought up to the new measurements next, within a day or two. Several garden decisions wait on the owner, and the history research waits on letters and record purchases.
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Advisory 29 TURB Turbulence
The terrain model was rebuilt from the survey and laser scans, and the house model re-measured against the scans and its original plans, which cut the estimated heating need by about 15%. The main page was reorganised.
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Advisory 28 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
The last study pages passed the review, among them the instruments, the daylight and climate page, and the reference library, and work began on rebuilding the terrain and house models.
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Advisory 27 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
A room-by-room reconstruction of the house from its original building plans was built as a test page, with a sunlit 3D model, the floor plans, a section that can be cut anywhere, and heat loss and sun hours for every room. It is now filed as reference, and the planned model sessions were updated around it. The last study-page reviews come first, then the terrain, the house, and the garden design are rebuilt in that order, with no date set yet.
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Advisory 26 DZ Drizzle
The automated work loop can now resume from a fresh session, with its scripts and notes kept in a permanent folder.
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Advisory 25 DZ Drizzle
A quiet day spent looking over the data on hand for new study and companion page ideas, with nothing changed.
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Advisory 24 ICG Icing
Six more pages passed the review, among them the sundial, whose correction table had its sign reversed and would have read 32 minutes off in early November; the cutting file now has it right. A dark-mode fault on the plot page is fixed, the house's flood exposure was corrected, seven garden concept images now guide the redesign, and two more sessions joined the plan. The review stands at 25 of 30, paused between sessions until usage allows, with the models rebuilt after it.
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Advisory 23 TSTM Thunderstorm
Eight more pages passed the review: growing, wind, quantities, the directory, the observatory, the record book, the memorial, and the chronicle.
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Advisory 22 ICG Icing
The next phase is planned and queued as three modelling sessions: a terrain model rebuilt from the survey and laser measurements, the house's floor heights and footprint corrected from its original plans, and then the garden redesign brought onto the new model. Everything waits for usage to reset, with the 17 remaining page reviews first, starting with the growing page.
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Advisory 21 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Growth in scope. A garden redesign joined the project, with a master plan of two terrace schemes and about 30 features, from riverbank walls to a greenhouse and lighting.
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Advisory 20 ICG Icing
Three design figures are settled, for the heat pump, the heat loss, and the solar yield, which a longer satellite record puts about 13% higher, and a ground-source collector turns out to need more than twice the garden there is. The sun, rain, river, flood, and ground pages are reviewed, and a new script refreshed 115 data files. The review pauses at 11 of 28 sessions until usage limits allow, with the growing page next.
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Advisory 19 TURB Turbulence
A systematic review of every study page began, to a new standard of stated assumptions, clear charts, and readable text. It proved itself on the climate page, where it caught a miscalibrated temperature record, then moved through the solar app and the heat and daylight pages.
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Advisory 18 TSTM Thunderstorm
The story book is finished at twelve chapters and about 28,500 words, and the research pages, the plan, the chronology, and the maps, were reworked to be readable. All 155 test suites pass, and about 800 research sessions are on record. Replies and records are filed as they arrive, and further history research waits on letters to archives and record purchases.
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Advisory 17 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Growth in scope. An illustrated story-book retelling of the village history began, and its first chapter was approved.
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Advisory 16 DZ Drizzle
The river, rain, and observatory pages now read a gauge just upstream in place of one well downstream, and the house's construction date is corrected throughout the book. All 154 test suites pass. Routine research continues as replies arrive, and the war-years research waits on a purchase from an outside archive.
METAR XOTG 010446Z AUTO /////KT //// ////// ///// Q//// RMK PVT STN= -
Advisory 15 TSTM Thunderstorm
Soil and map studies joined the record, and the history book's scope is settled at seven parts and twenty-three chapters, with three follow-ups for it already run.
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Advisory 14 TSTM Thunderstorm
A burst of rework. The model now runs on six decades of measured records in place of an assumed factor that proved wrong throughout, and one validation check waits on a measurement in the field.
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Advisory 13 HURCN 1 Hurricane, category 1
Growth in scope. An audit of data gathered but never used opened four new studies.
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Advisory 12 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Rapid growth in scope. A research section now tests the long record against its own questions, and a new chapter formed downstream.
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Advisory 11 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
Research sessions continue. Anything found about the village is kept, whether or not a chapter wants it.
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Advisory 10 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
Every request that needs the owner's hand, letters to post and records to buy, was drafted and gathered on one page.
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Advisory 9 TSTM Thunderstorm
A second peak of research sessions ran through 24 September, in the busiest month on record.
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Advisory 8 TSTM Thunderstorm
After archive scans, historical maps, and parish registers were read and cross-checked through late August, unattended research runs began, each an automated session on a single task. About 60 ran in the first rounds, with a peak of work through 11 September.
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Advisory 7 DZ Drizzle
The first letters went out to archives, asking about historical maps.
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Advisory 6 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
The research plan was written and the documents reorganized, the history book took shape as chapters, and new findings now pass a review before they enter it.
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Advisory 5 TRPCL STM Tropical storm
Growth in scope. Research into the village's history began in earnest, earlier research was brought in, and a digital library of old printed sources was harvested.
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Advisory 4 TSTM Thunderstorm
The first studies arrived in a burst: climate, daylight, river, tree canopy, flood, rain-to-river, soil, and the plot, with notes on the river's low flow and on drought.
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Advisory 3 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
The project folder was reorganized, and an overview front page was designed and built the same day.
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Advisory 2 TURB Turbulence
The app's 3D view of the house was rebuilt after three ways of rendering it were compared.
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Advisory 1 PTCLDY Partly cloudy
A new system forms. Work begins on a study of an old rural house and its land.
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