Had FREEZING & busy shifts yesterday (Saturday)!  

• Magnitude 8.0 EQ during OWL shift (Travis)
• Beckhoff Failure for ~6hrs of DAY shift (Ed & a crew of many others who came in & helped remotely)
• Alignment Restoration Work for end of DAY shift & into EVE shift. (Cheryl)
• ---> And somewhere in here we had a pipe burst in the LSB! (temps have been in the single digits for days)<---

Kudos to the heroic work of the operators, all who came in & to the people who are still here cleaning up the LSB.

A Request for DetChar

The locks for the last 15hrs appear to be ratty/glitchy.  Wondering if the DetChar team could point us to any culprits here.  There's been a thought this could be alignment-related (there was the alignment recovery by Ed & Cheryl after the quake and Beckhoff failure yesterday, and then Travis & I performed another Initial Alignment today.)  We can try another alignment next time we drop out of lock, but wondering if there could be something else amiss causing our glitchy H1 after the flurry of Saturday action. 

I submitted an FRS (6965) for the downtime for this (~14hrs from when Beckhoff issue happened to when we were back to OBSERVING).