flood watch

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 19 Sep 2013, 06:05

It's a pity they didn't use this picture which shows the snow in October 2008. Many trees were broken by the weight of snow on the leaves.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 20 Sep 2013, 08:07

Interesting set of news films about the flooded oil and gas wells: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/web/kmg ... n-milliken

Note the map showing well site density!

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 20 Sep 2013, 14:23

Where's the map?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 20 Sep 2013, 16:54

In the films! It shows hundreds of dots - each a well.

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 20 Sep 2013, 17:14

When i did my off-road driver training with Land Rover, we were taught a basic rule of thumb that a gallon of oil contaminates a million gallons of water. This was in the context of water crossings (i.e. avoid at all costs due to contamination risk).

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 10 Oct 2013, 12:46

At least 20 dead in Sudanese flooding, at least 31 in Thailand, Phillipines flooded with 3 dead (flooding there is called the 'new normal') and 83 dead in Cambodia.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 11 Oct 2013, 14:27

Quite a lengthy story but simply one example of how nuclear and climate change - and potentially or actually mixing them - are really bad ideas.

The easiest pathway for plutonium to have left the Rocky Flats site during the flood was simply by way of surface soils being washed away by the incredible amounts of rain that fell over the five-day period. That’s because, according to a recent test, plutonium levels on top of and in some of the soils at the Flats are just as prevalent today as they were decades ago.

What happened at Rocky Flats has been called a 1,000-year event.

There's inflation for you. Once-in-a-hundred years? That's so yesterday.

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 11 Oct 2013, 15:17

If you have a 1000 reactors scattered around the world, one of them will encounter a 1 in a 1000 year event on average once a year....

That's something people overlook when comparing say, moonshots with mass roll-out of energy systems.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 11 Oct 2013, 15:44

RalphW wrote:If you have a 1000 reactors scattered around the world, one of them will encounter a 1 in a 1000 year event on average once a year....

True but people tend to think locally.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 15 Oct 2013, 15:09

Thailand flood deaths rise.

The current floods affect 982,799 people in 5,542 villages of 116 districts. A total of 7,376 flood-hit people have been evacuated to safer grounds.

Phailin leaves at least 21 dead, 200,000 marooned, 11.5 million people affected.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 15 Oct 2013, 19:28

Thailand had their flood last year - they weren't due for another 100 year flood for ...

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 16 Oct 2013, 00:02

biffvernon wrote:Thailand had their flood last year - they weren't due for another 100 year flood for ...

1 to 300 years. They are RANDOM events and are not evenly spaced apart.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 16 Oct 2013, 09:00

No shit Sherlock!

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 16 Oct 2013, 15:13

So if they get one next year as well we, and they, should be just a little worried?

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 16 Oct 2013, 15:21

Of course not. They're random, remember?