On March 13, the home of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., which includes the studios and set of Vidgle and WRAJ Internet Radio, was damaged by a flood. Nothing costly was damaged, however hundreds of studio cables were damaged and will need to be replaced. “We don’t know the total cost of the damage of the wiring we use, however the floor had to go,” said Anthony Zaragoza, president of Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. “Several set props for Vidgle were damaged, those props cost about a hundreds of dollars in total.”

The studio and offices flooded late Saturday night due to a power outage. With heavy rainfall, it caused the water table beneath the basement to overflow the pumping stations and it then leaked through the stations and the cement floor beneath the rug. The water raised above the rug to about 3 inches. We had no power for at least 20 hours.

“We had a generator to start pumping the water once it began to rise, that generator failed. After a replacement generator was purchased 12 hours later, we received power shortly after.”

Now a planning process is about to start Monday. This includes new furniture, lighting, set props, and new wiring configurations. “We are planning to upgrade our network to high bandwidth with CAT6 network cables,” Zaragoza added. A new studio patch bay will be installed for WRAJ Internet Radio which will allow interactions with Vidgle’s video productions.

The last flood logged that hit the studio was on March 13, 2007 when a storm drain failed.

This flood comes a week after Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. is planning to move to a new location by 2013. This is the first major flood which had to move the company out for longer than a week. It is also the third flood since WRAJ Internet Radio started in 2003 in that location. WRAJ Internet Radio is currently broadcasting at a temporary location and the company is renting space at another location. There is no date when the company will be able to operate out of its home location. “The only date we can come up with is the date of April 12 or the 19th, maybe even later than that.”

Some photos have been released here.

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