State of Emergency

[Adivina]

Copied from weather report on-line.

FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
255 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS EXTENDED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BRISTOL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF TAUNTON

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AS OF 245 PM EDT...THE POTENTIAL CONTINUED TO EXIST FOR FAILURE OF
THE WHITTENDON POND DAM ON THE MILL RIVER. LOCAL OFFICIALS REPORT
THAT ROAD CLOSURES AND EVACUATION ORDERS IN TAUNTON HAVE NOT
CHANGED.

THE WHITTENTON POND DAM IS 12 FEET HIGH. IF THIS DAM FAILED...AN
APPROXIMATELY 8 FOOT FLOOD WAVE WOULD OCCUR...WITH A 4 TO 6 FOOT
FLOOD WAVE INTO PARTS OF TAUNTON THAT ARE DOWNSTREAM. THIS WOULD
INCLUDE PARTS OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA.

THIS IS A VOLATILE AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN AN
AREA WHERE AN EVACUATION HAS BEEN ORDERED...LEAVE IMMEDIATELY!
PEOPLE BELOW THE DAM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION BY MONITORING
LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION AND FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANY
REQUIRED EVACUATION AS OUTLINED BY LOCAL EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.

LAT...LON 4193 7102 4186 7099 4184 7106 4187 7117
4196 7114

Arg! Oh yeah, if the hurricane path makes it up to New England as they said it may, New England Coast is fucked. (Looks outside at the coastline).

[Tuggan]

hooray for michigan. tornados on occasion and thats it.

[Harrison]

I'd take a hurricane over a finger of God anyday...

If I ever saw a tornado I'd shit myself.

I've seen hurricanes.

[DangerPaul]

Tornados are really not that bad. Typically they tear down a few houses and leave some damage, but they are quick, usually they are on the ground less than a couple of minutes. I would rather face them than an earthquake or hurricane.

[kaharthemad]

But why do Tornadoes always land on trailer homes? is it a sign from god?

[araby]

But why do Tornadoes always land on trailer homes? is it a sign from god?

God don't like trailers.

[DangerPaul]

no, god don't like white trash... the trailers are ok

[Tacks]

Thanks for that insightful comment.

[DangerPaul]

you are welcome pumpkin

[araby]

hi tacks

[Arlos]

I dunno, I prefer earthquakes myself. Those rarely last more than 30-60 seconds, and you get serious ones what, every 50-100 years in a given spot? (lessee, SF earthquake in 1906, next big one to strike the area, 1989, 83 years, hrm, not bad.) Hell, small earthquakes are kinda fun, actually, been through some. Most of the earthquakes we do get with any frequency are so small they're like a semi driving by. That or you just sleep through them.

The places that REALLY needs to be worrying though are Oregon and Seattle. There's a subduction zone trench off their coast, where the fault there hasn't moved in about 500 years. That's another vertical fault like the one that went in Indonesia and made that tsunami last Christmas. When it goes, it's going to be huge, well into the 8s or low 9s. Geologists have found evidence from the last time it went, and the waves drowned forests 20 miles inland.

Oh, and as an added worry for those in Seattle: Mount Rainier is an active Volcano, that hasn't erupted in a very long time, so has lots of pressure built up. Think bigger than St. Helens in '80 when it goes. Tacoma is built on old ash/mud flows from Rainier, the last one of which was oh, about 6-10 feet deep. Over the entire region.

Of course, everyone is going to be fucked when Yellowstone blows. That's a supervolcano. Last time it went, places as far away as Iowa were buried in 5-9 feet of ash. Geologic records show that it goes off very regularly, every 600,000 years. Guess when the last time it erupted was? Yep, just over 600,000 years ago. Geologists have already measured swelling in the center of its caldera of more than a couple feet in the last few decades. So, when it goes, not only will it bury most of the US and Canada in feet of ash, but it'll throw enough crap into the sky to effectively cause a nuclear winter, aka mini-ice age, as it blocks out the sun for oh, hrm, a decade or so, maybe longer.

-Arlos

[Jimmy Durante]

More info on the Yellowstone Caldera:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/su ... lcano.html

[araby]

You guys, this is some serious shit.

[araby]

Mindia can you read this from where you're sitting???

Some researchers suspect that Toba's super eruption and the global cold spell it triggered might explain a mystery in the human genome. Our genes suggest we all come from a few thousand people just tens of thousands of years ago, instead of from a much older, bigger lineage — as the fossil evidence testifies. Both could be true if only a few small groups of humans survived the cold years following the Toba eruption.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/others/others_02.html

[DangerPaul]

I dunno, I prefer earthquakes myself. Those rarely last more than 30-60 seconds, and you get serious ones what, every 50-100 years in a given spot? (lessee, SF earthquake in 1906, next big one to strike the area, 1989, 83 years, hrm, not bad.) Hell, small earthquakes are kinda fun, actually, been through some. Most of the earthquakes we do get with any frequency are so small they're like a semi driving by. That or you just sleep through them.

The places that REALLY needs to be worrying though are Oregon and Seattle. There's a subduction zone trench off their coast, where the fault there hasn't moved in about 500 years. That's another vertical fault like the one that went in Indonesia and made that tsunami last Christmas. When it goes, it's going to be huge, well into the 8s or low 9s. Geologists have found evidence from the last time it went, and the waves drowned forests 20 miles inland.

Oh, and as an added worry for those in Seattle: Mount Rainier is an active Volcano, that hasn't erupted in a very long time, so has lots of pressure built up. Think bigger than St. Helens in '80 when it goes. Tacoma is built on old ash/mud flows from Rainier, the last one of which was oh, about 6-10 feet deep. Over the entire region.

Of course, everyone is going to be fucked when Yellowstone blows. That's a supervolcano. Last time it went, places as far away as Iowa were buried in 5-9 feet of ash. Geologic records show that it goes off very regularly, every 600,000 years. Guess when the last time it erupted was? Yep, just over 600,000 years ago. Geologists have already measured swelling in the center of its caldera of more than a couple feet in the last few decades. So, when it goes, not only will it bury most of the US and Canada in feet of ash, but it'll throw enough crap into the sky to effectively cause a nuclear winter, aka mini-ice age, as it blocks out the sun for oh, hrm, a decade or so, maybe longer.

-Arlos

With Mother Nature's record this year, I am expecting we see these happen within a year from this post.

[The Kizzy]

It's the second coming of Christ.

[Adivina]

I need a raft please. It doesn't have to be large, just a humble floatation device for when the flood waters come.

[DangerPaul]

It's the second coming of Christ.

Mindiajr

[The Kizzy]

float on top of one of the zombie bodies after you smash his head in with a hard round kick.

[Adivina]

Good idea Kizzie.... are zombies buoyant? (spelling too lazy to check)

[DangerPaul]

no, the holes in them make them float

[The Kizzy]

In Rome, they used some dead bodies to help keep there raft afloat, so I think so.

[Metranon]

regarding the yellowstone caldera

But at this hot spot's current position under Yellowstone there have been three massive eruptions: 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago. While those eruptions have been spaced roughly 800,000 and 660,000 years apart, three events are not enough statistically to declare this an eruption pattern, explains Smith.

so even if you take this as an eruption pattern, it could be another 140,000 years before it goes off. Not thats theres much we could do to prepare anyway.

[araby]

that's the thing about natural disasters.

when I was young, my childhood nightmares were about natural disasters. I remember several of them, I least I think I do.

I was standing on the toilet in a public restroom in the mall when a volcano erupted and lava started to flow inside, and I couldn't escape.

others were about terrorists and wars...but that's not the point. Seems like mother earth is really just kicking some ass lately. My mother says "it's the end of the world."

[Adivina]

Yeah shit is out of control weather wise.