Even when hurricanes pass by they don't cause this much damage. The straight-line winds gusting to 70 MPH (115 KPH) for over 15 minutes is what brought a lot of things down that wouldn't normally have come down in a storm.
As it is, I never lost power (for a change) but I'm working from home due to the office complex where I work is in autistic mode because of Verizon not being able to get some central system online.
I hate to think what would happen if we were ever hit full-on by a Category 5 hurricane...
I was in it, and barely missed getting hit by multiple tree branches of the 6+inch diameter variety as I drove the final half-mile home. I lost power long enough to make my UPS whine, but that was before I got there. Every street around me had branches down, some completely blocking main streets. I live in Alexandria near Potomac Yard, got hit by the weather driving through Shirlington.
I had managed to not be out in a storm of this size before, usually I stay in or get back before one hits (I'm a weather junkie, wunderground,com rules!), so I hadn't ever seen big chunks of tree fall around me, nor had my car hit with 70 MPH winds.
I have to give the SFX guys in "Twister" credit, they were pretty darn accurate, at least about the storms leading up to tornadoes.
Just going by what the GP said: "My opinion, that any legal foreign residents should leave Arizona NOW! Just plain walk. It would get the point to all those tech companies they won't get ANY help. Who do you think runs those big IT businesses?"
So, when the foreign residents who "run the big IT businesses" leave, that opens it for us citizens.
Unless of course the GP was talking through his, um, hat...
That's the final recourse of demagogues everywhere. When any amount of reduction in government is proposed, the demagogues scream "So you don't want any government at all!" This is exceedingly childish, just like small children who throw a tantrum when they can't have everything they want. They are unable to understand limits and refuse to acknowledge "shades of gray" when it comes to government control. For them, like for spoiled children, it's all or nothing.
The problem is the time it takes to design, locate, get permission to build, build, test and bring online any new power plant over the next 20 years. Not every hotspot is stable enough to accomodate multi-megawatt power plants.
Plus, you want to talk about environmental impact, since people are so hung up about fracking causing mini-earthquakes, what do you think pumping huge amounts of water into hot rock on various faults would do?
Not to mention the water picking up large amounts of sulfur, creating sulfuric acid amongst other compounds. Yes, these can all be worked around, but not cheaply, and not quickly.
We've lived for over 30 years under the cloud of NukeFUD, and it's time we started getting over it. We have brains, we can figure out how to make dangerous things safer. It's not like we haven't done it before, and there's nothing special about nuclear technology that makes it uniquely impossible to fix.
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Even when hurricanes pass by they don't cause this much damage. The straight-line winds gusting to 70 MPH (115 KPH) for over 15 minutes is what brought a lot of things down that wouldn't normally have come down in a storm.
As it is, I never lost power (for a change) but I'm working from home due to the office complex where I work is in autistic mode because of Verizon not being able to get some central system online.
I hate to think what would happen if we were ever hit full-on by a Category 5 hurricane...
We do what we must because we can.
Sadly, almost no one does, anymore...
I was in it, and barely missed getting hit by multiple tree branches of the 6+inch diameter variety as I drove the final half-mile home. I lost power long enough to make my UPS whine, but that was before I got there. Every street around me had branches down, some completely blocking main streets. I live in Alexandria near Potomac Yard, got hit by the weather driving through Shirlington.
I had managed to not be out in a storm of this size before, usually I stay in or get back before one hits (I'm a weather junkie, wunderground,com rules!), so I hadn't ever seen big chunks of tree fall around me, nor had my car hit with 70 MPH winds.
I have to give the SFX guys in "Twister" credit, they were pretty darn accurate, at least about the storms leading up to tornadoes.
Well, they did say there was a lot of "cloud to cloud" lightning in that storm...
So, when the foreign residents who "run the big IT businesses" leave, that opens it for us citizens.
Unless of course the GP was talking through his, um, hat...
But you won't have to show ID, that would be racist.
Let me know when they leave, I could use a good-paying job again...
But look at how many bureaucrats you're keeping employed.
Hater! Using your "facts" and "reality" to confuse the issue! You probably want to live in a world that is nothing but "facts" and "reality!"
(sarcasm for the humor impaired)
(disclaimer for the disclaimer-dependent: I hate having to use disclaimers)
In the US, taxes never expire, only tax rate cuts...
This should be insightful, as it applies logic to what's mostly treated as an emotional issue. I wish I had mod points and hadn't already posted.
That's the final recourse of demagogues everywhere. When any amount of reduction in government is proposed, the demagogues scream "So you don't want any government at all!" This is exceedingly childish, just like small children who throw a tantrum when they can't have everything they want. They are unable to understand limits and refuse to acknowledge "shades of gray" when it comes to government control. For them, like for spoiled children, it's all or nothing.
Can you spell out the logical steps you went through to get from the above statement to yours?
Some people think coming down out of the trees was a bad idea.
Right, build them along the coasts so they can all be destroyed by the next tsunami.
The problem is the time it takes to design, locate, get permission to build, build, test and bring online any new power plant over the next 20 years. Not every hotspot is stable enough to accomodate multi-megawatt power plants.
Plus, you want to talk about environmental impact, since people are so hung up about fracking causing mini-earthquakes, what do you think pumping huge amounts of water into hot rock on various faults would do?
Not to mention the water picking up large amounts of sulfur, creating sulfuric acid amongst other compounds. Yes, these can all be worked around, but not cheaply, and not quickly.
We've lived for over 30 years under the cloud of NukeFUD, and it's time we started getting over it. We have brains, we can figure out how to make dangerous things safer. It's not like we haven't done it before, and there's nothing special about nuclear technology that makes it uniquely impossible to fix.
The monks of Glastonbury would like a word...
Gamma rays wouldn't form C14, only neutrons that got caught in the nuclei.
Success!!!
(and tell your grandmother I said "Hi")
Just kidding, she wouldn't speak to me at the high school dance...
Newspeak FTW. LOL.
For my home WiFi I have "Venture Labs", and for my mobile 4G hotspot I have "Central Dogma".
Or the corollary:
"Shut up" they explained.
For a second there, I thought the title was "Depressed People Surf the Web Diffidently," whereupon I thought, "Of course."
Then I read it again....