{"id":136574,"date":"2026-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=136574"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:43:39","slug":"friday-night-freaky-forest-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/07\/24\/friday-night-freaky-forest-frequency\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – freaky forest frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The day started\u00a0 out really nice. quit and slow …. Our brother and sister in loaw, Joe an Pat showed up. Tey usually live in Endicott NY.. but this week they are staying in Longmeadow Ma. takign care of our nephew vince and families cats .. .. so .. its only a 3 hour drive to see us.. THey showed up 9 ish.. and we got to hang out and catch up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabe’s in town (!!!). he’s here from Germany for his freind Justin’s weddibng.. when he woke up , diane laid out a feast of breakfast.. yum !!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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about that time, the day switched gears. we got a call from our buddy Duane.. Fluffy has a gig this weekend\u00a0 at a festival called ‘Forest Frequency’\u00a0 up in jeffersonvile .\u00a0
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early this morning duane and aaron began the long slow trek from charlotte to jeffersoncille.. it’s a slow tri as fliuffy really cant go faster than 20mph with her clouds mounted..\u00a0

duane was driving.. while aaron followed bbehind in duanes truck

then…..

about 45.75 mile into the 46 mile trek, fluffy clipped a power line that was hanging too low actoss stebens rad in cambridge..\u00a0

fluffy weighs 36000 lbs.. so she kept moving .. and that pulled down a 1 0,000V ower line. the pole it was on. the transformer on the pole.\u00a0 lknocking out power to 20 houses..

. all without hurting anyone..

sure.. three of fluffy’s 52 clouds were badly damaged. and part of the pole managed to embed itself in fluffys dancefloor

and.. now one was shocked..

and nine of the 200 lbs of propane onboard fluffy even noticed..

lets say theat even in a f***ed up circumstance people were exceedingly . extremely .. magically .. and wonderfully ..\u00a0

“fine”\u00a0 \u00a0 !!<\/p>\n

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Duane and aaron described what had happened.. . and we were\u00a0 so (!!!) relieved to hear everyone was ok !

Diane and I quickly pcked up the tools, documents and software we needed and headed up to jeffersone vilee.. Here’s what we found.\u00a0

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the utility crew was there and workign to restore services.. fastbook and reddit were lighting up with the details..\u00a0

we drove around.. n showed up at the csiite and got to work\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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our job was to restore fluffy to its operational beauty ..

oen of the clouds.. D2 on driver side had taken a direct hit.. but miraculously\u00a0 its led strips were intacke.. Itw fron brother ( or sister ?) D7 was not so lucky. it was shereded and floderd in half.. it’s led strips were visibly shredded.. ..\u00a0<\/p>\n

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and he front cloud F!.. had been pulverized.. we didnt even have all of its peices..\u00a0
diane and I got to work on D7.. first I tried to repair the split led strip.. but at this poitn folks were sncing on fluffy and I couldn’t get everything still enough to attempt a solder repair..\u00a0

probably just as well.. as there were probably several other things that could be broken..\u00a0\u00a0

we needed a plan B !

the issue is that a missing cloud is a problem.. but it\u00a0 also disables all the other down stream clouds in its channel ..\u00a0 (there are 16 channels that manage fluffy’s\u00a0 almost `15,000 leds )
Here’s the map of D7’s channel (Channel 2 on the driver side)\u00a0



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it would have been ‘easy-ish to take the wires from the previous cloud (D6) and patch them directly to the next cloud (D)\u00a0 ..\u00a0 \u00a0.. but then its downstream cloud D8 would not match the LED map used to map the patterns..\u00a0 \u00a0that might not sound like a big deal.. but it would stad out and really ruin the beauty of fluffy


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Diane and I thought\u00a0 for a bit.. and came up with a\u00a0 work around. we put in a ‘dummy’ strip between D6 and D8 and hid it in the map pocket inside the bus.. .. the shredded D7 was dark.. but the rest of the channel looked great.\u00a0

Similar story with the destroyed front cloud F1.. it was absoeltutly gone.. F<\/code>1 .. shares a channel with the pasenger side dance floor.. while important.. is never viewed with other leds at the same tim e .. its inside the bus.. while all other strips are outside and visible. so there, we just patched beteen the channel 15 octo line directly to the pssdenger dancefloor.. . we also had to add an extera power sullply and power tap that would have been supplied by the front cloud F1.\u00a0

at that poitn.. Fluffy looked just abotu normal.. and the freaky party got under way..

It was a bunch of beautiful\u00a0 people .. all dressed in white.\u00a0 there was a shabbot service going to happen.. and I think it was why the white..\u00a0

anyway.. now that fluffy was ok.. diane and I could relax.. and mingle.. .lots of nice peopke.. great food, .. and an brathtakign setting\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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our freinds skunk. clair and alwencia were there .. and kim and company were there spinnign fire..\u00a0

it was a really nice party.. a little strange not knowing the guests.. but sweet\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We headed home around midnight..\u00a0

disaster avoided !
nite all, nite sam
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