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Woofer posted:https://twitter.com/rblx_and/status/1249459000501891072?s=21 I'm guessing it's bad when all of weather Twitter jumps into a photo and says in a minute has its radar signature and appearance pegged for the second worst tornado in US history.
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oh hows the rescue effort gonna work with a pandemic going on
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Its rural Mississippi, I don't think they are at the tip of the spear in terms of case load at the moment.
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That same system is probably responsible for thrashing part of an airport in Monroe, LA (northern part of the state). https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5NiA8Fv8D/?igshid=6j6y27pc59tz
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The messaging from weather people has been building all up and down the East Coast about this for at least two days. It seems like they are expecting a large outbreak of severe weather all up and down the front range of the Appalachians tonight into midday tomorrow. I've heard murmurings about it just from scrolling Twitter, but people are seemingly flipping the "no really, pay attention to this poo poo" switch in the last 6 hours.
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yeah they're saying 70 mph winds crazy ct forecast: Monday Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 58. Windy, with a south wind 21 to 26 mph increasing to 32 to 37 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
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They’re calling for a gale warning ( > ~40mph) offshore of NC, with attendant 15-18ft seas 
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Winds have been 50mph around here for three damned days, bad enough I'm trapped in my house. Trees are down all over the place.
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Apr 12, 2020 23:54
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I've never seen the weather service give up on warn boxes and just draw a blob over six counties before that can't be good https://mobile.twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1249449026950291456
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SPC usually does that for the Convective 3-5 Day Outlook to highlight areas of interest. e: I will admit I've never seen it used in a realtime scenario on their website. NWS does not typically like to mix messaging types for obvious reasons. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Soooooo... when does it change from a tornado to land hurricane? 2 miles wide sounds like a great candidate for that.
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Oh hello there hook echo and vortex. You're looking big today. https://twitter.com/imbusyatwork44/status/1249449486155501575
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Same system is going to hit DC tomorrow. https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1249448897245777923 This’ll be fun.
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It's already getting ugly af in NWFL
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I forgot to add, Happy Easter!
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I had a dream where dick cheney died
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Yeah, if you live in the Carolinas or the mid-Atlantic, please pay attention to the National Weather Service and your local meteorologists for the next 18 hours. Thanks! /soapbox
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Same system is going to hit DC tomorrow. what what 
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No wonder why Captain Crozier basically went "public" with this whole thing. https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1249504880403918853 Kinda hosed!
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Insanely good and normal
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Least shocking thing about the entire scenario. Good on the other O's on the TR for wanting to cosign, good on Crozier for not letting them do it. e: And when anyone references "specialized" in relation to Reactor, they should say "specialized and casually worked to death". SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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So, errr, what happens when you have to turn the reactor off? I assume there's not a lot of back up power, does everyone have to bail before they die of carbon dioxide poisoning or what?
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not caring here posted:So, errr, what happens when you have to turn the reactor off? I assume there's not a lot of back up power, does everyone have to bail before they die of carbon dioxide poisoning or what? I think the biggest problem is likely the fact that turning the reactor off isn't as simple as flipping a switch
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I thought most nuclear power reactors do have a one-switch off button. The problem is using it makes it very difficult to turn them back on.
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RFC2324 posted:I think the biggest problem is likely the fact that turning the reactor off isn't as simple as flipping a switch ho ho ho, but it is: 
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Legally speaking a nuclear reactor is never “off” I think.
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pmchem posted:ho ho ho, but it is: Dude where's my reactor core?
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:yeah they're saying 70 mph winds The best thing about CT weather forecasting is how a random dude on Facebook/Twitter (@eweather13) Is a better source of short term forecasting and analysis of expectations than local broadcast tv
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not caring here posted:So, errr, what happens when you have to turn the reactor off? I assume there's not a lot of back up power, does everyone have to bail before they die of carbon dioxide poisoning or what? I'm not going to elaborate outside of saying there is a big loving checklist. e: Or Scram...yes. I was not in Reactor, but I got to see a Scram at Penn State's Research Reactor when I was a Freshman. FrozenVent posted:Legally speaking a nuclear reactor is never “off” I think. The rods never stop giving off radiation, but the chamber is a very carefully controlled chain reaction that stops when you yank the rods out of the chamber. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I'm not going to elaborate outside of saying there is a big loving checklist. Do tell
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https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1248966531679047680 Okay this one seems probably not good for real this time. Another article on the same thing indicates that coronavirus travels on shoes very easily and the pharmacy of the hospital which had no patients in it tested 100% for coronavirus on the floor.
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They basically just have it sitting in a tank of (deep) water. I forget what the cadence of it was but its a pulse of blue light thats pretty breathtaking, quite honestly. I have to imagine its on Youtube. Will look. e: Yeah, this is the poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTolYJnx5E SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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if a tornado goes through downtown DC i might reconsider a deity
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EBB posted:if a tornado goes through downtown DC i might reconsider a deity I would probably quit drinking immediately.
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EBB posted:if a tornado goes through downtown DC i might reconsider a deity It probably wouldn’t considering how this storm system has to get through the Blue Ridge mountains, which will probably bleed off some of its strength. Places in northern Montgomery County could see some tornadic action, though. Also downtown DC is largely devoid of activity thanks to COVID so all the lobbyists and other members of the parasite class are safe at home in Loudon County or Bethesda. What you’re looking for is a Derecho-type event that hits the Beltway at rush hour.
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not caring here posted:So, errr, what happens when you have to turn the reactor off? I assume there's not a lot of back up power, does everyone have to bail before they die of carbon dioxide poisoning or what? As a nuke I am also not going to elaborate but I can casually not elaborate in more detail: Ships and subs only run their reactors next to the pier for rare occasions when they're not about to leave or just pulled in. But shutting down a reactor is surprisingly simple. A reactor Scram shuts down the reactor, period. It goes from 100% to <1%. Normally you either SCRAM in an emergency (even a mild one, or often just for practice), or Scram once you're already shutdown through a long proceedure. 0% nuclear reaction however isn't the thing you're worried about, at the moment of a Scram you still have 7% of operating power still occurring as thermal power, thanks to nuclear decay. If you scram at 100% power you still have 38 MEGAwatts of thermal power to deal with. If you Scram at the end of a shutdown checklist after pulling into port you have monumentally less since it decays exponentially. Decay heat is a bitch however, and even weeks later you can still have dozens of kilowatts of thermal power being produced. Not a lot of heat at all for thousands of tons of metal and water. BUT if that water is stationary things can hot spot, hot spots cause problems with hydrogen and uneven expansion of metals. Leave a hot spot for long enough and you have permanent damage and a small pain in the rear end leak of used nuclear fuel into your primary coolant. This doesn't happen as long as water is circulating though, and the ship piers have electricity to power the pumps, and there are multiple backup generators everywhere. Over longer periods of time this fun field of study called radio-chemistry comes into play. Radiation causes the breakdown of ammonia and other molecules in the coolant which has long term effects, but is a simple task to deal with on a weekly basis. But the relevant answer is that from a physics standpoint, you can leave a water pump running and lock the door and things will be absolutely fine for a few weeks until plant chemistry gets too far out of spec, but from a legal and understandably cautious standpoint you need 24h shift work to have someone sit in a box and watch the meter.
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mmm reactor porn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNP1wMmPK4
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M_Gargantua posted:The best thing about CT weather forecasting is how a random dude on Facebook/Twitter (@eweather13) Is a better source of short term forecasting and analysis of expectations than local broadcast tv yeah poo poo went downhill after dr mel died https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkZjOMTAMM
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