God is cleaning out the creek and I think making a statement about cleanliness
I am a wrecker driver for Martin's wrecker service. We were called to remove the vehicles that got caught in the flooding on interstate I 24 westbound near the Bell Road exit in Nashville Tennessee. Of course this is after the waters had subsided. It was roughly 200, 250 cars and trucks that got caught up in the flood. The debris to left is actually the remnants of a portable classroom that floated alongside the interstate and eventually rolled over and disintegrated.
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So that's why all the skeptics' post on the Climate Change Blog are grey. Heck, mine have been grey almost since my first post. To me, everything I've posted has been downright gentlemanly compared to some of the stuff I've seen (and some of that stuff is not even grey!). I wonder where I got all that negative rep, LOL.
GFS 18z 324 hours (14 Days)
Plaquemines has plan to defend coastline
Activity is ramping up in efforts to protect the outer-lying areas of Plaquemines Parish and keep the oil from destroying the marsh.
So that's why all the skeptics' post on the Climate Change Blog are grey. Heck, mine have been grey almost since my first post. To me, everything I've posted has been downright gentlemanly compared to some of the stuff I've seen (and some of that stuff is not even grey!). I wonder where I got all that negative rep, LOL.
Date/Time: Monday, May 03, 2010 at 23:09:45 UTC
Location: 38.110°S, 73.648°W
Region: OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
Depth: 20.6 km (12.8 miles)
Distances: 55 km (35 miles) S of Lebu, Bio-Bio, Chile
115 km (70 miles) NW of Temuco, Araucania, Chile
135 km (85 miles) WSW of Los Angeles, Bio-Bio, Chile
585 km (360 miles) SSW of SANTIAGO, Region Metropolitana, Chile
*There has been one report of very strong shaking and moderate damage.
..be sure to click the Primary Portrait thingee ma bog
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
805 PM EDT MON MAY 03 2010
...ITCZ...
ITCZ AXIS IS CENTERED ALONG 6N10W 7N22W 6N30W 6N45W 4N51W. AN
EMBEDDED SURFACE TROUGH IS ALONG 22W FROM 2N-10N. SCATTERED
SHOWERS ARE WITHIN 90 NM OF THE TROUGH AXIS. ELSEWHERE...
SCATTERED MODERATE CONVECTION IS FROM 5N-8N BETWEEN 14W-17W.
WIDELY SCATTERED MODERATE CONVECTION IS FROM 5N-8N BETWEEN
38W-41W...AND FROM 1N-7N BETWEEN 48W-50W.
i'm sorry but what these things? it reminds me of a lava lamp or those bubble things that keep the temps?
Link
By SAMANTHA YOUNG (AP) – 1 hour ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday withdrew his support of a plan to expand oil drilling off the California coast, citing the massive oil spill that resulted from a drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
The announcement assures that no new drilling will take place off the state's coastline in the foreseeable future because Schwarzenegger would have to include the drilling proposal in his May revision of the state budget.
Speaking at a news conference near Sacramento, the governor said television images of the oil spill in the Gulf have changed his mind about the safety of ocean-based oil platforms.
"You turn on the television and see this enormous disaster, you say to yourself, 'Why would we want to take on that kind of risk?'" Schwarzenegger said.
The Republican governor had proposed expanding oil drilling off the coast of Santa Barbara County to help close the state's $20 billion budget deficit. Democrats last year blocked a similar proposal, but Schwarzenegger renewed his support this year, saying it was a reliable way to increase revenue as the state grapples with an ongoing fiscal crisis.
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a lot of people think that those rigs down there in santa barbara are not in use. to be honest with you they look really cool at night.
Polo
worth reading
Nope
NOAA graphic showing the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone as it was on July 27, 2009. It covered an area of about 6,000 sq.miles South of Louisiana coast. This is about average size for the summer dead zone during the last 5-years.
The dead zone is an area of low-oxygen water due to overgrowth of algae caused by runoff from agriculture fertilizers and other discharges from the waterways. In this area, most of the water from just above sea floor to just below the surface is oxygen deprived and cannot support most fish life.
This year's 2010 dead zone should be just as large. Fish cannot flee in that direction to escape the oil-filled water. Birds cannot fish in the oxygen starved waters. Basically, this forms a barrier to the West of the oil slick.
Just FYI, but the two effects may combine to do a real number on fish populations this year.
Not loud enough Taz. Put some feeling into it!!! LOL
Plan B: Put a lid on it
Putting a lid on the leaks appears to be the most promising medium-term strategy. Workers from Louisiana-based Wild Well Control are currently slaving over a 125-ton, 40-foot-high chamber that would be set on top of the largest leak source, toward the end of the bent-up pipeline now lying on the sea floor.
Oil flowing into this chamber would be collected and brought up through a new 5,000-foot pipeline to a ship floating on the surface, the Deepwater Enterprise. The oil would be separated from seawater and gas, and then offloaded to an onshore oil terminal. As explained in this fact sheet, the Deepwater Enterprise can process 15,000 barrels of oil a day and store as much as 139,000 barrels. The system could collect as much as 85 percent of the oil rising from the seafloor.
The chamber is actually a converted coffer dam that was used after Hurricane Katrina to facilitate the repair of shallow-water wellheads. This first containment structure could be ready to put down from the Deepwater Enterprise in a week or so, and a second structure would be built for Leak No. 2. As for Leak No. 3, the smallest of the breaks, BP plans to use a robo-sub to install a shutoff valve on the pipe as early as today.
Doing all this may sound simple, but the containment strategy has never been used in a deep-water situation before. Ocean currents and oil-rig wreckage will complicate the coming effort to place the chambers precisely over the leaks, and it remains to be seen whether the structures will collect the leaking oil the way BP hopes they will.
Winds pushing oil spill eastward, towards Florida.
Please break out your crystal ball and see what image appears.
Some key El Nino regions continue to warm: the equator region directly west of 100W, an area north of the Galapagos, and the coastal border between Peru and Chile.
correct, BOM Cat 5 made landfall, TD, went off shore, intensified to Cat 5 and made landfall again, was cat 1 900km's inland. produced enough rain to make water falls stream down the side of Ayres Rock.
Oughta put that one in the Smithsonian if it works, CRS.
And I bet those are some proud welders who want it to work just as much as anyone.
Thanks.
Well, the graph I just posted shows that all nino regions have cooled over the past 2 weeks. By the next ENSO update we'll likely be below .5C (Neutral)
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