Friday, September 01, 2017
What flood?
ZH shows several videos and pics of the "flooded" Arkema chemical plant exploding.
THERE'S NO WATER IN ANY OF THE PICTURES. One video is taken on a highway with a drainage ditch. No water in the ditch, pavement and grass are dry. All the low spots are DRY AND CLEAN. There's no mudline on the buildings in the chemical plant.
I've been in a real flood. Enid 1973. Water stuck around for weeks in low spots, debris and rocks were scattered around, and buildings that had been flooded showed clear mudlines where the water stood. Buildings in Manhattan STILL had mudlines in 1956, left over from the '51 flood.
Here's a picture of downtown Manhattan a few days after the '51 flood. Mud, mud, mud.
Maybe there's flooding in some parts of Houston, but the Arkema plant is NOT flooded now and shows NO indication of recent flooding. All the fake "news" stories led us to believe that the tanks were unreachable and uncontrollable because the whole place was submerged.
I guess we have a new Orwell. Submerged = bone-dry.
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Tech sidenote: Look at the fantastically stupid steering mechanism on the forklift/bulldozer thingamajig. The single rear wheel does the steering. Instead of the usual linkage and steering wheel, there's a huge long tiller (or maybe a cable-housing?) that passes directly over the driver's head. What happens when he stands up? BONK! ... Web search doesn't find anything remotely similar. Small in-store forklifts often have three wheels, but the only big three-wheeler I can see is the Clark Tructractor built in the '30s. None of them have this strange tiller. Bonus non-self-explanatory picture from an all-Clark page in Flickr.
Maybe there's flooding in some parts of Houston, but the Arkema plant is NOT flooded now and shows NO indication of recent flooding. All the fake "news" stories led us to believe that the tanks were unreachable and uncontrollable because the whole place was submerged.
I guess we have a new Orwell. Submerged = bone-dry.
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Tech sidenote: Look at the fantastically stupid steering mechanism on the forklift/bulldozer thingamajig. The single rear wheel does the steering. Instead of the usual linkage and steering wheel, there's a huge long tiller (or maybe a cable-housing?) that passes directly over the driver's head. What happens when he stands up? BONK! ... Web search doesn't find anything remotely similar. Small in-store forklifts often have three wheels, but the only big three-wheeler I can see is the Clark Tructractor built in the '30s. None of them have this strange tiller. Bonus non-self-explanatory picture from an all-Clark page in Flickr.Labels: SES
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