Hurricane Advice

[campingshaws]

let the seeds in place til you can use them to start new plants, they (new plants) come up pretty quick

Have you tried collecting the seeds from the pods? I did a few but it was extremely tedious.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

looks like major rebuild will eventually happen or allot of folks move out the are damaged the most

Exactally what happened in NOLA, after Katrina, everyone must make the decision that is best for their family. But If it's your home and you want to stay, you will get help. Just know it will be a long road, but others from the USA will be with you the entire time. helping to rebuild your great city.

 

[jeria]

i just read that there were already explosions and fires at Arkema

https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...cal-explosion-harvey-houston-arkema-peroxides

That was on our news here in KC this am before I left at 6am

 

[Ursuline Chick]

The weather people were saying it's likely to be a new precipitation record for the lower 48, and only a hair away from a US record held by Hawaii! That's just crazy!!

Heard this on last night's news

 

[lilmarie84]

Exactally what happened in NOLA, after Katrina, everyone must make the decision that is best for their family. But If it's your home and you want to stay, you will get help. Just know it will be a long road, but others from the USA will be with you the entire time. helping to rebuild your great city.

very true to be honest there are still some here now 12 years later not as many as back then but there still some here

 

[User395221]

Have you tried collecting the seeds from the pods? I did a few but it was extremely tedious.

you don't have to extract the seed just cut the tops off and stick them in a paper bag and keep them dry. when you want to replant, just crumble the pods (or just plant them as is).

 

[Ursuline Chick]

How about Apollo 13?

You will be the to BYC go to person for movie quotes!! LOL

 

[jeria]

HE's son came back from work this evening low on gas after having been by all his regular fuel stations. Most were out of gas, one had a long line, so he just came home. Y'all be aware, refineries are out of commission for a while. Prices going up, and supplies might get low.

Runs on gas stations even here before price increases. One I went to on Mon, was down to where I normally fill it, only had one pump that still had gas=.

 

[RUNuts]

Arkema listed cumene hydroperoxide as the chemical. The explosions are probably the containers failing or overpressuring. Once at autoignition temperature, it will burn. Nothing else needed, no air, no fuel, no spark - it provides it all.

Hopefully, as part of their site plan, they stored the cumene hydroperoxide separately from the other chemical storage. That is usually the safety plan. So everything else is safe, secure and isolated. The peroxide will burn no matter what once warm. Great stuff. Peroxides are catalysts for all kinds of plastics and we like plastics.

So that is your science lesson for today. Nothing to worry about, a little fire. But at least it is something other than the dangerous and deadly water we've been talking about for a week.

Best wishes and don't succumb to the hype. It's just science. Ask the man behind the curtain.

 

[rjohns39]

Yes, that is horrible. Not only the worry about the explosion itself, but contamination of soil, water, etc. from whatever kind of chemicals are present. I think it's so wrong in so many ways that they aren't willing to disclose the details.

The good news is most of what they deal with will turn into harmless gasses post fire.

Houston Chronicle reporter talks about explosion risks related to Arkema chemical plant.
Stay alert for new, non-water risks related to the storm.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/wat...-massive-shock-wave-chemical-plant-explosion/

i just read that there were already explosions and fires at Arkema

https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...cal-explosion-harvey-houston-arkema-peroxides

I too read that there have been two explosions and the best course of action right now is let it burn out. In this case, the hotter the fire, the better for the environment.

I didn't find the other post I wanted to quote, sorry I'm new at this multi-quote thing. Talking about winter ice... It rarely happens, as Ice normally melts by noon on most winter days--but we've had occasions where a hard freeze sets in for up to two weeks. When that happens, its not possible to get to the store due to mountain roads... That includes us and delivery trucks. So when an ice storm hits it could be a month before supplies become available. I took asking my friend from Alaska's about what's important as she can go up to six months without resupply, I showed her what I thought was important and WOW... I was really wrong. Kiki will love this... TP was at the top of the list of insufficient quantities.