Auntie Em Auntie Em!
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Welcome back, Eric. It's been pretty windy here the last few days, but those shots of yours puts my complaining about having to wash the car twice last week, because it immediately got covered in dust again, into some kind of perspective. Eight houses is a little too close for comfort.
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Thanks again and yes, too close for comfort.
The one that hit our neighborhood was a small one. Were it any bigger I am positive we would not have fared as well.Here are some photos of the TVA power line damage that has caused all the power outages.
These lines are only a few miles from my home.
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A good friend of mine who is a photographer for the Huntsville times took these in the Carter's Gin community which is between our home and where I work.
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Glad to hear you and your family are safe Eric. We were praying for you.
Scott
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Whoa!
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Terrifying!
Just a question: there is no Nuclear Plants on the path of all theses new tornadoes?
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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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