Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale

You are being unfair. They have Ihops and Olive Gardens too. I think. And possibly a few trees somewhere.

Windy is a great site. Looks like Irma is going to hang over Florida forever, the damage will be immense. Then it appears the remnants of Irma break up Jose and push him north and away from the coastline, so that's a plus.

There are 4 nuclear plants in Florida: The Offshore Power Systems concept of a floating nuclear power plant was terminated in 1979.

Map of operational nuclear plants in USA:

Why wait? The two Bay City, Texas nuclear plants may soon become a problem if the Colorado River decides to overflow. You just might have a disaster to keep you happy soon enough:

It only takes one meltdown to ruin your day.

Actually Flagstaff is nice and cool. With neat orange dirt.

Cheers

Flagstaff is a nice place. Orange dirt is pretty common stuff (iron).

Hasn't turned north yet.

Wind speed near the surface indicates low 90's here. The faster stuff is around 1000 m up.

ng to look like it got hit by a bomb. From the NHC, Cat 5 damage assessment .

e destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Fallen trees and po wer poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or mo nths.

t decade and a half, but I doubt it's going to hold up against this. It's t hat nasty dependency of force on the square of the velocity coupled with th e area multiplier of the target- looks real bad.

Looks like we may see a first: two hurricanes colliding. Irma hugging the c oast and traveling northeast just in time to intercept Jose heading northwe st. Then the winds blowing north on Irma's east meet the winds blowing sout h on Jose's west side, everything blows out, and both storms subside.

Do nearby hurricanes cancel one another? Maybe so.

That's optimistic!

going to look like it got hit by a bomb. From the NHC, Cat 5 damage assessm ent.

l be destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last for we eks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

past decade and a half, but I doubt it's going to hold up against this. It' s that nasty dependency of force on the square of the velocity coupled with the area multiplier of the target- looks real bad.

e coast and traveling northeast just in time to intercept Jose heading nort hwest. Then the winds blowing north on Irma's east meet the winds blowing s outh on Jose's west side, everything blows out, and both storms subside.

It takes a hurricane to blow out a hurricane.

astated--nothing left but dirt, rocks, roads, and Taco Bells.

into the stone age: "Hey! Upgrade!"

(I like Arid Zona, but that's funny stuff.)

Cheers, James Arthur

vastated--nothing left but dirt, rocks, roads, and Taco Bells.

into the stone age: "Hey! Upgrade!"

Yes, but you live in a state whose biggest claim to fame is having a giant hole in it. :-)

Cheers, James Arthur

devastated--nothing left but dirt, rocks, roads, and Taco Bells.

em into the stone age: "Hey! Upgrade!"

You mean giant asshole living in it...

There have been hurricanes down there about forever. We set new wind-speed records because we now have hurricane hunter planes, satellites, balloons, radar, and zillions of realtime weather stations that we never had before. And, if you keep watching a noisy signal, you'll now and then get a new record-maximum spike. Try that on a digital scope with a good noise source.

Yep. The most popular tourist attraction in the United States. ...Jim Thompson

The GC gets about 5 million tourists per year. San Francisco gets 19 million. The Golden Gate Bridge alone gets about 10 million tourists. Golden Gate Park gets around 10 million too.

The Las Vegas strip gets something insane, over 40 million. I can't imagine why.

I can't imagine why.

Gambling and prostitution.

But you generally lose.

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with one of them the loss is the purpose, but afaik techincally that isn't legal in Las Vegas