I worked eight years for a nuclear utility and eight years for the industry-funded watchdog group. I've been part of dozens of emergency drills. In order to get to this level of emergency in a drill, we used to have to make up all kinds of unlikely things: a plane hit the plant, and 10 valves failed, and a worker was trapped and, and.... It's just surreal to see all these things actually happening.
Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.
'Not Fade Away'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Mar 14, 2011 7:42:01 pm PDT #28320 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Trudy Booth - Mar 14, 2011 7:47:46 pm PDT #28321 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ginger, I should probably know this, but...do you/did you used to work in nuclear science?
So who else went "I love my classes/Got a crazy teacher/He wears dark glasses..."
le nubian - Mar 14, 2011 7:49:55 pm PDT #28322 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
on second thought, maybe I do need to be freaking the fuck out.
Vortex - Mar 14, 2011 7:55:24 pm PDT #28323 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Ginger, you should be blogging somewhere and sharing your knowledge. Also, drumming up business. If you just took your posts here and cobbled them together into a guest blog, I'll bet that the Journal would publish it.
Ginger - Mar 14, 2011 8:01:02 pm PDT #28324 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm not worried about radiation here. We didn't get any appreciable amount from Chernobyl, and the good thing about radiation is that you can't hide it. I'm just sick about adding this to an already horrendous situation.
I don't know if this makes any sense, and it's a tiny thing compared with people who have relatives and roots in Japan, but it's really a blow to me personally. I've put a lot of my life into this, and I've spent a lot of time with the people who work in nuclear plants.
I'd better go to bed.
Lee - Mar 14, 2011 8:28:45 pm PDT #28325 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It does make sense, Ginger, and I am sorry you are going through it.
javachik - Mar 14, 2011 9:41:00 pm PDT #28326 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yes, thank you, Ginger. And I understand your anguish.
Calli - Mar 15, 2011 1:07:58 am PDT #28327 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thank you, Ginger.
Kathy, I hope they can get the filter out with minimal drama.
SuziQ - Mar 15, 2011 4:47:45 am PDT #28328 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Knock, knock....anyone home?
Tom Scola - Mar 15, 2011 4:50:54 am PDT #28329 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Still cranky from the DST change. Slept ten hours last night, and it still took a Herculean effort to get out of bed this morning.