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Major Hurricane Irma


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7 minutes ago, jasons said:

Surge has the potential to be much worse than Andrew. Have you read how vulnerable Turkey Creek is to a major hurricane? It's been an elephant in the room for a long time.

We know how vulnerable it is to a major hurricane- since it was already hit by a category five hurricane, right? The question is can the surge at that point be 20 feet or greater, and have they started the safe shutdown yet? Andrew peak surge was what, 17 feet? What is the max surge possible at this point?

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As we await the Euro the thing that scares me the most about Irma is this.  Not the tidal surge.  Not the flooding.  It's long term power outages if the infrastructure takes a major hit.  There are literally thousands of high rises from Miami up to Palm Beach  (and beyond).  Long term power outages strands all those people, many elderly for long periods of time.  Excessive heat in closed up apartments, no way up or down in buildings.  This could be a rolling disaster of unknown and epic proportions.

The key is to keep the eyewall just offshore.  This Euro run will be huge to see if the slight west trend continues....    

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My brother is a reactor operator and I asked him to text his friend at Turkey Point and they have 2 fully equipped shifts rotating every 12 hours. They will remain on site until relief gets there. They are beginning the shut down process (governor said closed, but its called shut down). For emergencies like this, at Diablo Canyon where my brother works, its a process called stranded plant.

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2 minutes ago, katabatic said:

My brother is a reactor operator and I asked him to text his friend at Turkey Point and they have 2 fully equipped shifts rotating every 12 hours. They will remain on site until relief gets there. They are beginning the shut down process (governor said closed, but its called shut down). For emergencies like this, at Diablo Canyon where my brother works, its a process called stranded plant.

That's a lot of juice to take off line, they've got combined cycle generators to stand in and fill the gap I assume?  Probably some excess capacity to perhaps pull off the grid from GA as well.  

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Yeah so clearly this is not a good run (in terms of impacts) on the Euro. At hour 72 the track is right through the keys and places the higher population densities in the RFQ. The pressure drops 12mb while it's in the straight so the Euro thinks it will be intensifying up to LF.

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4 minutes ago, sojitodd said:

Do you mean the 'nuclear hurricane' nonsense or the very real concern about the Turkey Point plant? And if the latter, should that be in banter or the evac thread? Thanks.

Stuff like nuking hurricanes (or nuclear hurricane) definitely goes in the banter thread. As far as TP plant...it can be either the banter or the evac. Just leave it out of this one, thanks. 

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