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Andy Arthur

October and already the leaves are fading away in the Adirondacks. 🍂 Most shocking to me is that we are less then a month away from November, which in many ways should be a sigh of relief with the craziness of work and with the deep blue skies and crisp days of that month.

Old River Road in Little Falls

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Heading down what remains of Old River Road in Little Falls. You can put a kayak in under the Theodore Wind Bridge, however there is no formal kayak launch, just a good place to put in near the sewage treatment plant.

Cayuta Valley

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Heading through the Cayuta Valley on NY 13, nice farm country.

How Do Substations Work?

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Untangling the various equipment you might see in an electrical substation.

This is a very interesting video. Substations do a lot more then just stepping down the voltage from high-voltage transmission lines. They carefully control the output voltage and frequency, bring together often multiple power lines feeding into the system, they can disconnect and connect lines for servicing and repair. In many ways, substations really are the brains of the local power grid.

Bridgewater

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Fog and sun driving through Bridgewater in mid-September.