CannonFodder posted:

In the bad Joplin MO tornado, the one that shifted the hospital from it's foundation, there was a group of people that sheltered in a conveience store walk in beer cooler. They survived but had some cuts and bruises because the tornado still ripped holes in the roof and wall.

Here's a long form article about it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32967/joplin-tornado-stories-1011/

MRC48B posted:

This is osha. Did they really make the walk-in cooler their shelter area.

Most walk-ins are styrofoam walls lined with tinfoil, filled with heavily overloaded shelving that can easily tip over.

Cojawfee posted:

Why wasn't that road closed?

CannonFodder posted:

In the bad Joplin MO tornado, the one that shifted the hospital from it's foundation, there was a group of people that sheltered in a conveience store walk in beer cooler. They survived but had some cuts and bruises because the tornado still ripped holes in the roof and wall.

Here's a long form article about it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32967/joplin-tornado-stories-1011/

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

edit: I am still trying to upload all my Yuma Proving Ground pictures to imgur but it will only do a few at a time and there are dozens. Here's a teaser though, featuring my grandfather in the white shirt.

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

I wish I had a job where I could look that casually cool and wrench on sciencey weapons poo poo. Your grandpa in his cool glasses and engineer regalia owns more than enough to bypass the obligatory 'your mom's dildo' joke

KoRMaK posted:

yea I wish I worked for the military industrial complex too and got to science the hell out of American imperialism

VectorSigma posted:

A fully stocked chest freezer will go several days before even starting to thaw, provided you open it sparingly and briefly, and it isn't in a space that requires A/C to not be 90°F in August in Iowa. Ice can be used to fill air space in freezers and add to thermal mass, moving to a cooler will only hasten loss. While the freezer portion of a typical fridge ain't got poo poo on a good chest freezer, it still beats a cooler.

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

shame on an IGA posted:

Walk-in freezers are a great place to be in a weather event and a terrible place to be in a fire

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire

When you're being weighed against triangle shirtwaist and texas city in the 1990s it... ain't great.

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Recommendations Edit
The final report made ten recommendations. A summary:[2]

Life safety codes must be enforced. Proper enforcement of existing regulations must occur in future.

KoRMaK posted:

yea I wish I worked for the military industrial complex too and got to science the hell out of American imperialism

CannonFodder posted:

In the bad Joplin MO tornado, the one that shifted the hospital from it's foundation, there was a group of people that sheltered in a conveience store walk in beer cooler. They survived but had some cuts and bruises because the tornado still ripped holes in the roof and wall.

Here's a long form article about it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32967/joplin-tornado-stories-1011/

LifeSunDeath posted:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GregariousTerribleEthiopianwolf-mobile.mp4

Bad Munki posted:

https://i.imgur.com/hikxAhq.gifv

Cojawfee posted:

Is it just the poor quality of the video or did she just will that drill bit into existence?

Cojawfee posted:

Is it just the poor quality of the video or did she just will that drill bit into existence?

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/lhPnD5Q.mp4

Cojawfee posted:

Is it just the poor quality of the video or did she just will that drill bit into existence?

Bacon Taco posted:

A few years before I went to high school in rural Wisconsin, a light plane did this to our school bus. Just a little one-runway airstrip, just off the highway, with no tower; the plane came in a little low. Sadly I wasn't on the bus, and even if I had been, it was the 80s so no cell phone camera. They put up signs on the highway afterwards to warn of low-flying aircraft, though! The signs are still there 35 years later.

https://goo.gl/maps/vSwcnFzBE6k7v6486

The Lone Badger posted:

So... what are the drivers supposed to do about the low-flying planes?

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/5iMPW9I.gifv

LifeSunDeath posted:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/GregariousTerribleEthiopianwolf-mobile.mp4

Bacon Taco posted:

A few years before I went to high school in rural Wisconsin, a light plane did this to our school bus. Just a little one-runway airstrip, just off the highway, with no tower; the plane came in a little low. Sadly I wasn't on the bus, and even if I had been, it was the 80s so no cell phone camera. They put up signs on the highway afterwards to warn of low-flying aircraft, though! The signs are still there 35 years later.

https://goo.gl/maps/vSwcnFzBE6k7v6486

The Lone Badger posted:

So... what are the drivers supposed to do about the low-flying planes?

Sagebrush posted:

Ok so I looked up this incident because I was curious about what I thought I saw on the runway, and turns out my suspicions were correct. This is the north end of 52F, Northwest Regional Airport in Roanoke, Texas:



In the satellite photo we can see the road perpendicular to the runway and the white fence, confirming that the airplane was landing on runway 17 (flying south). The relevant markings here are the yellow bar and white arrows. The yellow centerline denotes that the beginning of the paved surface is a taxiway, and may not be used for any takeoff or landing operations. That is, you need to taxi up to the solid yellow demarcation bar before starting your takeoff roll. The yellow bar followed by the white arrows is what's called a "displaced threshold" -- this is a segment of the runway that cannot be landed on. You can start your takeoff roll in the displaced threshold, or you can use it in the opposite direction for your landing rollout, but you need to touch down after the heavy white line that represents the beginning of the runway landing area. Displaced thresholds are common when there are obstacles at the approach end of the runway that would make it unsafe to land right at the start of the pavement, such as trees, berms, fences, or roads. By moving the touchdown point down the runway, you raise the approach enough to keep clear of things on the ground.

In order to clip the car, the plane's wheels had to be about 6 feet off the ground as he came over the road. That's already in ground effect, already in the landing flare, way too soon to touch down beyond the threshold. You can see from his shadow that he barely clears the fence, too. He probably would have landed on the taxiway segment. Some basic math shows that if he'd been on a standard 3-degree glide slope aimed directly for the numbers, he would have been 35 feet in the air when crossing the road, not 6.

It was a student pilot, but he still should have known better. Students get trained and tested on runway markings before they're allowed to fly solo. This one is total pilot error, unfortunately.


You will notice on the satellite view that both ends of your runway also have the displaced threshold markings.


Well, the pilots are supposed to be able to fly their plane to avoid clipping things on the ground. On a checkride you have to demonstrate the techniques required to land on a shortened runway and steepen your approach to avoid obstacles. I think the sign is more to prevent drivers from being startled when a plane suddenly roars over their car. But coming to a stop so that you don't pass directly underneath the airplane, just in case something goes wrong, is probably a good idea.

Cartoon Man posted:

Cartoon Man posted:

Go home bridge builder, you’re drunk.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Yb0y26r.mp4

Jet Jaguar posted:

He can't weigh nearly enough for that to be worth doing. Unless his bones are neutronium or something.