ROCKMAN wrote:Newfie - When things do bad at a plant they can go very bady: about 10 years ago there was a hydrofluoric gas leak. Imagine how that worked on car paint jobs.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ROCKMAN wrote:I live across the highway from the second largest oil refinery in the western hemisphere and I never smell nuthin'. OTOH my farts don't stink either.
...The Texas metropolis has more casualties and property loss from floods than any other locality in the US...
“Where the built environment is a main force exacerbating the impacts of urban flooding, Houston is number one and it’s not even close.”
...Brody, a professor in the department of marine sciences at Texas A&M University’s Galveston campus, said the requests for help in Houston from people moving homes inspired him to create a forthcoming web tool so that people can type in an address and get a risk score.
“If you can see your crime statistics, shouldn’t you be able to see your flood risk also? ..."
...Wesley Newman, likens tall grass prairies to an upside-down rainforest: the grass can grow to 6ft to 8ft above ground and two or three times as much below.
“We’ve come to realise that the grassland, the tall grass prairie, is maybe even more important than the wetlands,” Piacentini said. “The more that we can restore, the more likely it is that we will be able to increase the water-holding capacity of what we do, and that affects directly downstream Houston.”...
dohboi wrote:Houston fears climate change will cause catastrophic flooding: ‘It’s not if, it’s when’
dohboi wrote:Our understanding of how fast and strong slr could hit keep changing, so I'm thinking some of those maps in your libraries may be a tad out of date now??
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