Auntie Em Auntie Em!
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@unknownuser said:
Terrifying!
Just a question: there is no Nuclear Plants on the path of all theses new tornadoes?
probably but i highly doubt a tornado -- even an f5 -- is going to take out a nuclear plant.
most buildings damaged in tornados are wooden framed (you don't see much crumbled brick houses in wind disaster pics
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Poorly reinforced brick veneer will peel away like paper. Some years ago, straight line winds came through and sucked the brick veneer off a local radio station. Two stories tall, pre-engineered metal building. The brick was on the leeward side of the building. Though I never went any closer than the street, the fact that the brick layer was still mostly intact as one plane on the ground told me that the dumbass who installed it did not use brick ties of any sort. The collapse narrowly missed their main satellite dish mounted on the ground next to the building.
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The Browns Ferry Nuclear plant will most likely be offline for a couple weeks.
@unknownuser said:
"The systems at Browns Ferry did exactly what they were supposed to. This is not comparable to Fukushima because it wasn't the result of damage to the plant, rather the lines leaving the plant were cut," said Scott Brooks, spokesman at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
When Browns Ferry lost offsite power, the reactors automatically shut and emergency backup diesel generators kicked in to cool the nuclear fuel.
Per Yahoo news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110428/us_nm/us_utilities_operations_tva_browns_6 -
@mitcorb said:
the fact that the brick layer was still mostly intact as one plane on the ground told me that the dumbass who installed it did not use brick ties of any sort.
yeah, but, at least he saved a $ coupla_hundred
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