625 Broadway is located in the 100-year flood plain

It should be noted that NYS Department of Environmental Conservation headquarters at 625 Broadway is built in the 100 year flood plain (shown in orange; red is the 500 year flood plain).

That means it has a more then 1 in 4 chance of flooding in any 30 year period. If the building had been privately financed it would require the purchaser to buy flood insurance to get a FHA-backed mortgage under federal regulations.

Saint Armands Beach

Looking off Short Point. You can just barely make out the wind turbines up on Rand Hill/Pine Ridge to the west.

Taken on Sunday August 15, 2010 at Point Au Roche.

ChatGPT and the Blog πŸ€–

You might have picked up on it, but I’ve been integrating ChatGPT into my blogging routine lately. Think of it as having a trusty sidekick helping me with categories, summaries, and even putting together entire blog posts. Now, I’m not short on ideas, but wrangling them into the right words can feel as elusive as catching a firefly on a summer night. And that’s where ChatGPT steps in, like a skilled assistant lending a hand.

Do I give a standing ovation for every result that comes out of ChatGPT? Well, not exactly for every single one. However, it often provides a solid starting point that I can work with. By offering a few cues and prompts, I guide ChatGPT to craft text that sounds smoother than anything I could write. Sometimes it’s a matter of injecting a few concepts, tweaking the language, and presto!β€”out comes a piece of writing that adds an extra layer of depth to the blog, something I might not have conjured all by my lonesome.

Let me be clear, I don’t anticipate being swapped out for a robot, unless the bot start craving sleeping in the back of a pickup truck in the woods. But, hey, if I can enlist a sophisticated language tool to help brainstorm, why not make the most of it? It’s like collaborating with a wordsmith who always knows just the right phrase, albeit in digital form instead of across a table.