I'm trying to believe that a lot of the hysteria is because CNN and the Weather Channel have a lot of airtime to fill.
Well, it IS August. OTOH, when the National Weather Service issues a statement like this that starts with the line "MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS"... then maybe it is time to panic.
I just hope the roof on the superdome thingie stays put. For some reason, this really worries me.
The dome was built to withstand 200 MPH winds and is made of reinforced concrete. It should hold.
On NPR, they had Senator Landrieu (I'm likely massacring the spelling) and she specifically brought up the loss of marshland as part of what makes NO and LA so vulnerable.
In first world issues... I have a LOT of fresh sage this year. Someone please give me suggestions about what to do with it all.
dw, thanks. I wasn't sure what kind of construction it was. Dad was at his first professional baseball game last week, in Seattle, and brought up concerns about the type of roof architecture used in various stadiums (heck all the nearby stadiums where I grew up are open air.)
I have a LOT of fresh sage this year. Someone please give me suggestions about what to do with it all.
Make a lot of turkey stuffing?
I weirdly like sage in scrambled eggs. Subtle flavor. But poultry, potatos, white fish, in tomato sauces....
Or you could just smudge everything.
Mmm, sage mixed into hamburgers with swiss cheese.
then maybe it is time to panic.
Yes, but I already have the panicking part covered.
Dad was at his first professional baseball game last week, in Seattle, and brought up concerns about the type of roof architecture used in various stadiums (heck all the nearby stadiums where I grew up are open air.)
Safeco Field is built to withstand a 7.5 quake, IIRC. The foundation is anchored to bedrock and the roof is such that it won't collapse as much as fall off track in The Big One (TM).
The old Kingdome was built in a similar way to the Superdome -- reinforced concrete with two rings of rebar at the top and bottom. The dome was so strong, in fact, that there were questions about whether they could effectively implode the stadium when they tore it down in 2000. In the end, they actually had to do a bunch of demo on it before they could even think about imploding it.
There was a sci-fi series whose name I've forgotten where they discover the Kingdome roof post-earthquake at the bottom of the Sound -- intact.
