LesserEvil: The SL-1 would like a word with you....

Pretty amazing story. One of the guys was impaled and pinned to the ceiling by control rods.

7of7: Are the people on the scanner talking about taking pictures of the dead bodies?

The people that 'won't be transported out by emergency services'... whatever that means. I assumed that it meant the people that didn't need an evac and had injuries treatable on-scene. I suppose it could be the dead to document injuries, location, and/or identity.

Does this have something to do with Lost?

If it's near the border, where will the survivors be buried?

HaywoodJablonski: Bullshiat. Mass can neither be created nor destroyed

MUST... NOT... REPLY... SERIOUSLY..TO JOKE.

Heh, just called the inlaws down in Middleton...they'd heard the windows rattle a bit, thought it was a heavy truck backfiring.

I told them I was glad they were fine, and to turn on the news.

I think the sleep deprivation from new twins is getting to them :)

crab66: orbitalfreak: And that includes Three Mile Island.

It's impossible to say the radiation release didn't kill anyone.

find one. Dare you.

Because they don't exist!

simpsonfan: Gas, oil, or coal fueled plant blows up = casualties at the plant, smoke in the area, damages from shockwave of explosion.

Nuclear plant blows up = Not an atomic bomb type explosion, but still the possibility of radiation killing people all over the place.

And before we clicked the link and read the story, how many of us first thought terrorism?

In Middletown, CT? Pretty much nobody.

"Night of the Living Casualties" just sounds wrong.

AMIRITE!

simpsonfan: Gas, oil, or coal fueled plant blows up = casualties at the plant, smoke in the area, damages from shockwave of explosion.

Nuclear plant blows up = Not an atomic bomb type explosion, but still the possibility of radiation killing people all over the place.

And before we clicked the link and read the story, how many of us first thought terrorism?

I thought about lack of infrastructure investment and aging facilities. Anyone else?

simpsonfan: And before we clicked the link and read the story, how many of us first thought terrorism?

I do just a bit of work with gaseous fuels and the first thing I though of was a mechanical failure allowing for a buildup of natural gas within a portion of the structure. Hydrocarbon detectors should have slammed valves closed at the first hint of buildup, but it it was a catastrophic failure, a rapid leakage would present an explosive atmosphere even with emergency protocols in place and functioning.

why is everyone being so negative? this positively a bad situation.

shadowself: TXEric: shadowself: Ah, right. Injury or death. Casualties. What a stupid word.

No, it's a perfectly cromulent word.

/That most of us learned the definition of in Elementary or Jr. High school.

Do you NEED to be a dick?

Heh... Sorry dude - just looking for an opportunity to whip out "cromulent".

Eyebleach: simpsonfan: And before we clicked the link and read the story, how many of us first thought terrorism?

I do just a bit of work with gaseous fuels and the first thing I though of was a mechanical failure allowing for a buildup of natural gas within a portion of the structure. Hydrocarbon detectors should have slammed valves closed at the first hint of buildup, but it it was a catastrophic failure, a rapid leakage would present an explosive atmosphere even with emergency protocols in place and functioning.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Dancin_In_Anson: Eyebleach

How's your kid?

Drinking too much beer in the bars, imo. Grades are good, tho. She's decided she wants to add on spanish and french simultaneously to get a second major in arts. :/

Thanks for checking up, by the way. :)

Oh I can't wait to see all the rednecks blaming Bin Laden because they say an "ayerab" looking individual the week before.

Some updated information would be nice.

Je5tEr: It's also impossible to say that the CO and CO2 from a gas powered plant hasn't killed anyone either.

False equivalence. Nice try douchebag.

WhoWasI: find one. Dare you.

Because they don't exist!

You can't prove that.

crab66: Je5tEr: It's also impossible to say that the CO and CO2 from a gas powered plant hasn't killed anyone either.

False equivalence. Nice try douchebag.

WhoWasI: find one. Dare you.

Because they don't exist!

You can't prove that.

You aren't helping yourself here

Dancin_In_Anson: Eyebleach: Drinking too much beer in the bars, imo. Grades are good, tho. She's decided she wants to add on spanish and french simultaneously to get a second major in arts. :/

Heh! Fully recovered then! Good to hear. Never did hear from the kid in Vernon.

Brit still keeps in touch with her. She transfered to somewhere near DFW this semester. The whole deal kinda freaked her parents out. My wife wanted to buy my daughter a goddamned Peterbilt for a couple of weeks, too.


Women.

Has anyone mentioned that casualties can mean both dead AND injured.

Sure would hate for someone to be confused.

BravadoGT: micromedic: hollowmoon,
I am hoping and keeping thoughts in my mind for these folk! I am also hoping that 2 fatalities doesn't get exponentially bigger... My best wishes for everyone involved.

Fox is saying there are reports of "bodies everywhere." So I'm guessing it will...


AFAIK "bodies" does not mean "dead". It can refer to both the fatalities and the injured, it's much like a synonym for casualties.

Let's keep the hope alive.

Casual or casualty?

/moderately obscure hotness

Ponzholio: Is God upset with Connecticut for making a pact with the devil???

When did they kick the french out?

Disgruntled Goat: 2 dead isn't "mass casualties."

was thinking the same thing

Disgruntled Goat: 250 injured is STILL not "mass casualties." Hell, in other countries that's a "bus plunge."

For us in Connecticut, it is... we aren't that big of a state.

LesserEvil: orbitalfreak: RHMolBio: BAN GAS POWER NOW!

/oh, it wasn't a nuke plant? No outrage in that case.

Exactly. Number of deaths in America due to catastrophic incidents at nuclear power plants? Zero. And that includes Three Mile Island. But, obviously, nuke plants are unsafe...


The SL-1 would like a word with you....

That said, Nuclear power has been relatively safe, and opposition to it has been disproportional to the threat, compared to other power sources. Today we have even "cleaner" and safer means to produce nuclear power. Emotional ideology has been keeping us from realizing it.

SL-1 was nasty.

And not commercial.

BeerBear: Disgruntled Goat: 2 dead isn't "mass casualties."

was thinking the same thing

"Casualties" can also mean injured.

From_The_Year_2000: You aren't helping yourself here

I'm still waiting for some proof.

bushbot111: Windmills don't explode. Replace all powerplants with windmills NOW before more lives are lost.

lolwut?

Yea. Sounds like something sprung a leak and it just popped itself out.

About 15 years ago, I was in a large shop that had a 40 pound propane cylinder split from being overfilled. It burst, we saw liquid propane boiling and spilling across the floor, it think we yelled something to people, then made tracks. I got about 40 yards outside when the world thumped and rebooted.

I had worse injuries from landing face first on asphalt than a couple of people who were still inside and suffered only minor burns and missing eyebrows. All the windows were gone and the roof was on a little bit crooked. Obviously, that power plant incident involved a larger quantity of fuel, but the majority of the damage in my little boom wasn't at the flashpoint, but at the perimeter of the explosion. There were no fires afterwards except for some smoldering papers and such.

I was told mass was always conserved. Boy was I way off.

Dancin_In_Anson: Eyebleach: The whole deal kinda freaked her parents out. My wife wanted to buy my daughter a goddamned Peterbilt for a couple of weeks, too.

Somewhat understandable. Did I tell you that I met a guy who was a passenger in the Mustang?

I didn't know that. I guess there were some more severe injuries in that car than what I first knew. My bills totaled a little over 30k and I think their insurance allowed us just 5k after it was all spread around. I spent another 5k just for additional CTs and follow-up work in Angelo. She had a pretty severe concussion.

Ponzholio: Is God upset with Connecticut for making a pact with the devil???

Yeah... we re-elected Joe Lieberman

There goes my budget. I'll have to take out a loan and allow the Toxic Waste Disposal company to build a facility just to meet my budget.

jitm045: grunthos: kilgorn: StingerJ: Veteran of the Cola Wars: ajgeek: Demetrius: crab66: Veteran of the Cola Wars: Explosion at a powerplant?

I bet that hertz.

Cut that shiat out. Watt is wrong with you people?

You people are really getting me amp'd up.

Puns like that make my Jules shrivel.

Puns like that will make everybody short with you.

VARy inappropriate, guys.

Ohm, that's just wrong...

Shocking, I tell you

I hope this is just a phase you are all going through! I don't know if I can stay neutral to these lines!

You are grounded for that comment!

Why so negative? you should try to be more positive in this current situation.