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re: day 4 with no power
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:49 am to Wellborn
Posted on 5/21/24 at 11:49 am to Wellborn
I moved to Tulsa after Harvey and they get these storms all the time in Okie land no problem.
Got sick of the rolling blackouts and the inability of Texas doing anything about it. Granted more people in greater Houston than the entire state of Oklahoma, but damn. Hopefully a hurricane doesn’t have 80mph+ winds or it will be a long day.
Got sick of the rolling blackouts and the inability of Texas doing anything about it. Granted more people in greater Houston than the entire state of Oklahoma, but damn. Hopefully a hurricane doesn’t have 80mph+ winds or it will be a long day.
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Posted on 5/21/24 at 12:09 pm to Uatu
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Well now. Let me educate you. 09/22/89. Hurricane Hugo, Charleston, SC. I lost power at 7:19 pm. I didn’t have power again until the afternoon of 10/28/89.
We were living on the Isle of Palms at the time. On Waterway .... the intercostal side on Wild Dunes golf course.
We lost our home on the 22nd and didn't get back in until the Feb 90.
We have since moved to the Lake Murray area. But we lost power for three weeks here some 20 years ago due to a rare once in a lifetime ice storm.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:25 pm to Dallaswho
quote:Prayers for all you guys. Mother Nature always wins.
quote: No way those transmission towers should have come down in 100 or 110 mph winds. We are in a hurricane area and towers should withstand 150mph sustained. Someone cut some corners. Investigation already underway.
Cypress had confirmed tornado. The Houston stuff was wind gusts. I’m not going to design and run a simulation, but I would imagine twisting/gusting winds could do more damage at lower speeds than sustained winds under the right circumstances. Myself and two of my immediate neighbors all lost mature trees 6 weeks ago during a supposedly non-severe storm. Storms do weird things.
This. A sustained straight line wind from one direction is one thing.
A swirling vortex that has 100+ MPH winds means the wind switches from north to west to south to east very quickly, so you have a dynamic loading from the moving steel in different directions, swaying power lines, the wind load, and the vacuum effect that creates a negative gravity of sorts.
We had a tornado hit a compressor building in Oklahoma in the 80’s. I would have guessed it would just rip the sheet metal off and leave the steel framework. Nope, the 10-14” steel I-beams got twisted around like hot spaghetti.
Blew my 3 Little Pigs theory all to hell. Pardon the pun.
Difficult to tell if an ‘old pic-up or other debris went airborne and took out a tower.
Re: the Galveston Hurricane in 1900; People had never seen the winds coming from the east, and noticed that the wind and the waves were coming from the mainland and not the gulf. Wiped the Island clean. 100+ years later, same thing happens, regardless of the ”preparation.”
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:33 pm to TFH
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If you work for Slalom I hate you
Probably Infosys, the bane of my existence right now.
Posted on 5/21/24 at 10:40 pm to Ptins944
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We had a tornado hit a compressor building in Oklahoma in the 80’s. I would have guessed it would just rip the sheet metal off and leave the steel framework.
Why do people think like this?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:31 am to CharlotteSooner
Sympathy for the devils
Posted on 5/22/24 at 7:54 pm to ColoradoAg
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I work with Slalom on a weekly basis. They are one of our consultant partners.
They did a new system for one of our state agencies. I’m prepping them for audit and they gave me maybe half the docs
Posted on 5/23/24 at 4:56 am to TFH
Christ, it is hot down here. Sympathies for those without air conditioning this week …
Posted on 5/23/24 at 10:22 am to CharlotteSooner
quote:Before the internet and digital photography and drones, there was not a lot of detailed information on tornados and tornado damages.
I would have guessed it would just rip the sheet metal off and leave the steel framework.
Why do people think like this?
Dorothy's house got picked up by a tornado, not turned into tooth picks. That was the only tornado damage I had "seen" until I moved to Oklahoma.
It does not take much wind to rip aluminum and sheet metal held together with screws and rivets.
A person with a sledge hammer could knock off all the sheet metal on a small building in a short amount of time.
A person could also pound on a structural steel beam all day with a sledge hammer, and would knock off the paint and expose the base metal, without any significant deformation to the beam itself.
The destructive power of a tornado must be seen to be believed.
When I was young, people used to say to open the windows to equalize the pressure in the house during a tornado. Kinda like hiding under your desk during a nuclear emergency.
Today, never mind, a major tornado will scrub the earth clean of whatever is on it.
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