Weather

I got my power and internet back only day after, and i'm on the eastern coast of SC. Gotta give props to all these electric company workers out here, we went from having an est 1,000,000 without power on Day 1, to 700,000 on Day 2, and as of last night it was already down to 400,000 or lower by now i'm sure. They really busted their ass to get the grid back up and running.

Crazy storms about to hit the Northwest. Flooding might be legendary. The atmospheric river is going to dump on the northwest. Could see more mudslides/mountain collapses, and pretty crazy flash floods. The wave predictions have been up to 12-14 meters for the west coast. (45 feet).

Atmospheric river - Wikipedia

This link hosts some pretty good images to flip through showcasing the potential.

Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Warning: Major Storms Threaten the Pacific Northwest

Hard to complain much after the last couple barely winters, though.

Not really "weather" related but 5.3 earthquake in Cushing OK tonight, which isn't good for obvious reasons but Cushing is the epicenter for the oil pipelines coming in and heading south and all the infrastructure that goes with it. See that location on a lot of storage shit we do.

I would be more concerned with the oil storage facilities. They literally are the very terminal end coming down on what would be the pipeline to Canada. They have the ability store months and months of oil. I would think a lot of oil getting moving would not be great. The pipelines wouldn't be a big concern, who knows tho. But in that area everything has the ability to be isolated and quickly shut off.

Basically from what I've read all the oil pumped out of the ground in OK and the west/NW of the US gathers there before being pumped down to the gulf coast for refining.

Lot more faith I have lol. API, who sets the codes for above ground and on ground oil storage (and tons of other petroleum industry stuff) has always played catchup. In 1989 Exxon had a major blowout/explostion at a tank farm when it got to -2F in an area where it wasn't supposed to get to -2F. Blew out of a few blocks of houses and such. It was just in the last 10 years that went from a minmum of 3/16" steel on storage tanks to 1/4" and that was mostly due to availability. You would think the API would have a chart like everything else but apparently not, not in my 450 or 650 standards for API oil storage contruction lol.

Since this many earthquakes is relatively new to OK and the gulf south, hopefully they catch up. But we would have heard about it by now. I would assume every tank is at full or near full with the price of oil taking a recent nosedive.

7.4 in New Zealand apparently. Now upgraded to 7.8

Now with Tsunami warning.

Borzak said:

7.4 in New Zealand apparently. Now upgraded to 7.8

Now with Tsunami warning.

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Earthquake was some next level shit.


I'm guessing cave systems and pretty sure that is a river mixed in with the dirt in the background. Either was underground or displaced to being underground by the time it was done.
Took photo from Fox.

Great

Powerful quake hits Japan, Fukushima residents urged to flee tsunami

Edit - oops sorry didn't see it had it's own thread.

GDI winter, pick either snow or rain not this crap.

Winter is bullshit for everyone. Windy as fuck.