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Allan Forbes....and anyone else on the West Coast
Mark Eatherton
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You'd best head for higher ground...
8.9 Earth Quake in Japan is sending a 30' tall wave of water your way.
Hopefully some energy will be dsisipated by the time it hits the west coast, but you never know. They said the wave can move at speeds of 600 MPH.
Wow... 5th largest recorded Earth Quake in the history of recording quakes.
ME
8.9 Earth Quake in Japan is sending a 30' tall wave of water your way.
Hopefully some energy will be dsisipated by the time it hits the west coast, but you never know. They said the wave can move at speeds of 600 MPH.
Wow... 5th largest recorded Earth Quake in the history of recording quakes.
ME
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The plot thickens...
Can you say nuclear melt down?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html
Watch the video of the steam explosion. I don't know how ANYONE could survive that.
Frank, I hope TLN's family is safe.
Thoughts and prayers to the people of Japan.
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My sons best friend
lives in Japan, he married a Japanese girl and settled in Osaka ( not affected much by the quake), he works in Tokyo however and says that the devastation is unbelievable, with entire towns missing north of the city. He is a computer engineer and six people from his company are missing. We definitely must keep them (all of Japan) in prayer.0 -
They're fine, ME
thanks for the thought. The epicenter was actually well north of Tokyo so they didn't get the full effect. But it was strong enough to cause considerable damage in that city.
The explosion was probably hydrogen, rather than steam. Same thing happened at Three Mile Island, but it was rather small and inside the reactor containment so you couldn't see it from the outside.
And the reactor itself was a GE, not the Babcock & Wilcox of TMI fame.All Steamed Up, Inc.
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Thanks for your thoughts, Mark.
There was major damage at some of the boat harbors up and down the coast and only one fatality. Where I live, it would take a pretty big tsunami to snag me. I'm on the east side of the bay, up a few hundred feet.
Seems like most of the people that got hurt were the sightseers, photographers and thrill seekers who couldn't stay away.8.33 lbs./gal. x 60 min./hr. x 20°ΔT = 10,000 BTU's/hour
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Glad to hear it Allan...
I remember the last time I was out in your town (Berkeley) for the hydronic conference, and while watching TV in the evening, there was a crawl going across the bottom telling people to evacuate to higher ground because of a Tsunami warning, and I called the front desk, and the girl who answered didn't know what I was talking about and told me not to worry about it.
Yeah, right...
I grabbed some stuff, and the wife, and jumped in the rental car and headed for higher ground. Shortly, we heard the warning was canceled, but being right on the coast, I didn't want to take any chances. This was right after the Tsunami in Viet Nam, so we were quite aware of the damage they can do.
The power of Nature is awesome....
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