Disastrous History

An incredible example of a supercell in Oklahoma right now. You can see the hook and the velocity couplet in between the two blue lines.

Dungeon Crawler Carl didn’t lie to you. The Avondale Mine Disaster is real.

With a nice solid dry slot in between.

This morning the CIA was supplying a rebel group in an Islamic country like its 1983.

A few minutes ago the US announced they performed military operations in South America like its 1993.

And now we’re boots on the ground in the Middle East to stop weapons of mass destruction like it’s 2003.

Everything is a reboot from the 80s these days

But I’m sure your ridiculously expensive vacation to a place directly within range of a known wildcard is hard too

I had multiple refugees report that when traveling through cartel held territory the Venezuelans would be separated from non-Venezuelans then the cartel members would make the Venezuelans kneel to pretend to execute them by firing blanks at their heads to get non-Venezuelans to pay more money.

I had a refugee who had to hide herself and her 3 year old underneath the rotted remains of two women so the cartel who was hunting her couldn’t find them.

I had a refugee whose mother died strapped to a tree in the Darien Gap because their guide demanded more money and took her as payment instead

I had a refugee who carried her five month old through the Darien Gap.

I had a refugee who lost his leg when he tried to jump on the train carrying his wife and daughter, slipped, and it became stuck ripping it off slowly as he was dragged beside the train tracks.

Chicago v Montreal and NYC v Philly have been two of the funniest soccer games I’ve ever watched. On par with some of the best CFB games. I’m so glad I’ve picked up MLS.

How does Apple TV not have ANY pre match shows at all. Someone has to help MLS figure out their lives

They hit an elementary school.

Slight brag on myself: I was called a standout history creator on TikTok

The official numbers released today for Hurricane Melissa are pretty crazy. Tied for highest sustained wind speed in Atlantic basin history. Highest recorded gust in tropical cyclone history.

None of the recordings were from the strongest part of the hurricane because they couldn’t get in it.

Santa had a less pathetic reaction and they threw batteries at him in Philly

I too am a long term Dabo hater but after 2018 that guy was absolutely ascendant unless you were an absolute hardcore cfb fan or a Clemson hater

Benedict Arnold
There’s an argument to be made for Alexander Hamilton
Coriolanus
Dabo Swinney
Richard Petty
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton was well on his way

New disaster pup!

Oh my god no it’s Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

I am winning gold medal while American Pie plays in the background

3 on 3 hockey on a full rink is truly terrible

There were several houses around this one that also had explosive or nearing explosive concentrations of natural gas. Officials have still not located the exact location of the leak underground and testing is ongoing to find it.

Now the reason I said this was a house explosion (kind of) is because this gas leak did not occur in the house. It occurred in a gas line below the house (maybe) and leaked through the ground into the home.

You can also tell this was natural gas as the majority of the damage is up high in comparison. Natural gas is lighter than air, your damage will be centered higher and diminish the lower you go. You can see the tops of the studs in the back of the house are more burnt at the top than the bottom.

It finds the weakest points and can break those apart but does not have the explosive force to break apart stronger joints which is why the front wall came apart in one piece. The connections between the exterior walls around it and the roof are weaker than the internal connections of the studs.

The lack of shattering from this explosion shows that we were far from our stoichiometric mixture. That inefficiency means the power of the overpressure inside the house would be lessened leading to the pushing of debris vs fracturing of material.

What I mean by that is if you look at this home, while destroyed, it is still relatively recognizable as a house. There are interior walls still standing, the garage walls are in good shape, the exterior wall closest to the camera is in one solid piece just pushed over, etc.

The other indication that this was an upper explosive limit explosion, the relative lack of fractured material, isn't technically tied only to upper explosive limit explosions but is an indication that the explosion was not efficient.

This leaves leftover gas vapors that can continue to burn as more oxygen flows into the area. This does provide extra heat and time to ignite other combustibles in the area meaning you generally will have a lot of leftover fire burning post blast.

This is where the upper explosive limit comes in. When the flame front travels through a gas cloud that is closer to the upper explosive limit, the consumption of the gas vapors is inefficient because of the lack of available oxygen.