JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what is going on here

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what is going on here

Crazycryodude posted:

Cracking and pinging

Crazycryodude posted:

Cracking and pinging

FistEnergy posted:

yep. love to see a real world example of the metaphor

Hubbert posted:

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what is going on here

Microplastics posted:

A cave is just a naturally-occurring dome: prove me wrong

Xaris posted:

tieback wall failure. you install a soldier-beam-and-lagging or concrete face with anchor tiebacks to retain lateral earth pressures.


usually you want to install horizontal walers and have big anchor plates at the ends so there isn't much tributary area that isn't being confined by the anchor. the anchors should also usually be post-tensioned so it keeps a force acting against the earth and doesn't require movement to engage. in this case, it was not an anchor failure but failure to use anchor plates so they just stripped out: looks like very thin shotcrete, no plates at the end of the tiebacks, not post-tensioned, and no walers, so the shotcrete failed

(i design these and other foundations for a living)

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/ClimateDefiance/status/1733244938660282572

hell yeah

Stereotype posted:

actually there’s no way to know what happened. sometimes bad things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do.

Mola Yam posted:

who are these guys

are they an op too

www.seattletimes.com posted:

A pipeline leaked Sunday south of Mount Vernon, spilling gasoline into a nearby ditch and creek and closing an elementary school.

The Olympic Pipeline leaked on the north side of Highway 534 in Skagit County, and the highway is closed from the Interstate 5 offramp to Bulson Road, according to the Washington State Department of Ecology. A vault connected to the pipeline spilled gas into Hill Ditch and Bulson Creek, and responders are recovering gas from the water.

Gasoline spilled out of a vault along the pipeline, so there is no rupture out of the pipeline itself, said Department of Ecology spokesperson Ty Keltner.

Crews have placed containment booms in Fisher Creek and other waterways connected to Hill Ditch to prevent the gas from spreading, Keltner said.

Conway School, a nearby K-8 school in Mount Vernon, will be closed Monday due to the spill. The Skagit County Emergency Operations Center has set up a temporary command center at the elementary school, according to a letter to parents from the Conway School District.

Air monitoring has been performed at nearby homes and gasoline vapor concentrations are within safe limits, according to the Department of Ecology. An inspector from the Northwest Clean Air Agency is on site.

The pipeline, owned by BP, runs along a 299-mile corridor from Blaine to Portland delivering fuel to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Harbor Island. The pipeline exploded in 1999 in Bellingham, killing three people.

BP did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Keltner said the Department of Ecology does not yet have an estimate on how long cleanup will take.

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On June 10, 1999, the Olympic pipeline operated by Olympic Pipe Line Company, carrying gasoline at the time, exploded in Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, Washington. The disaster started at 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC) when a mostly underground gasoline pipeline that crossed Whatcom and Hanna Creeks ruptured due to various errors and malfunctions on the part of Olympic Pipeline and others.[1] The gasoline vapors exploded at 5:02 PM PDT, sending a fireball down Whatcom Creek. Three people died in the incident.[2]

The disaster began as Olympic Pipeline was transporting gasoline from Cherry Point Refinery to terminals in Seattle and Portland, Oregon. A pressure relief valve that was improperly configured failed to open in the 16-inch (410 mm) pipeline, which resulted in a surge of pressure after an automatic valve shut for unknown reasons. This resulted in the line rupturing at 3:25 that afternoon, and gasoline began spilling into Hanna Creek just above its confluence with Whatcom Creek. As the gasoline continued to spill, many people in the area called 911 to report the gasoline smell, and an Olympic Pipeline employee who was in the area called the company to inquire whether they had an anomaly.[2][4]

When the Bellingham Fire Department arrived, massive amounts of gasoline had turned the creek pink, and the fumes were overwhelming. The fire department notified Olympic Pipe Line of the leak and evacuated the area around the creek.[2]

The gasoline exploded at 5:02 PM.[5][6] The black smoke plume extended to an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) and the smoke from the explosion was visible from Vancouver to Anacortes

Three people died in the incident. The first was Liam Wood, 18, who was fly fishing in the creek. He was rendered unconscious by the fumes and fell into the creek, drowning before the explosion.[7] Two children, …

Property damage was estimated at $58,455,927, most of it caused by the explosion. Many nearby buildings had broken windows. One house was completely destroyed. The city's water treatment plant was near the explosion site, and while the building itself survived, everything inside was destroyed. The rupture allowed 277,000 US gallons (1,050,000 L) of gasoline to escape into the creek bed

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_pipeline_explosion

quote:

Three people died in the incident. The first was Liam Wood, 18, who was fly fishing in the creek. He was rendered unconscious by the fumes and fell into the creek, drowning before the explosion.[7] Two children, …

Mola Yam posted:

who are these guys

are they an op too

quote:

Fury at COP28 climate summit after promise to "phase out" fossil fuels is removed from draft deal

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_pipeline_explosion

just a lil oopsie

Hit Man posted:

https://vxtwitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1734250941451300907?s=20

This breaking news is unfolding. Stay tuned

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The suave Sultan al-Jaber, who’s presiding over the conference, seemed to take the anger in his stride.

He made some soothing noises at a gathering of delegates and then disappeared into the night.

Car Hater posted:

Come to the Great Lakes region, it's a Climate Haven^(tm)

Stereotype posted:

lol 95F in Wisconsin in December

Stereotype posted:

lol 95F in Wisconsin in December

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

temperature anomalies are not raw temperatures

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what is going on here

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

what is going on here

Mola Yam posted:

2100°C by 2100

smoobles posted:

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the AC is so delightful
So as long as there's climate hope
Let us cope, let us cope, let us cope

Mola Yam posted:

2100°C by 2100