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    Wind turbine collapse in Victoria, Australia

    Wind speeds of up to 60kph(37mph), translate to Wind force 7. But it sounded like that was not continuous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale Given that there are turbines whose rated wind speed is 34mph(§The rated, or nominal, wind speed is the speed at which the turbine produces...
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    FEMA's Outdated Flood Zone Maps

    As we saw in Drena, the topography matters in heavy rainfall events: https://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=511922 I think that there was a certain amount of underestimating that occurred by those in power and those on the ground. I work north west of Atlanta and before the storm hit there...
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    Pipeline Fire near Houston, TX

    Anti-lock brakes do take control and we had to retrain people on how to drive since they were used to manually doing the ABS function by pumping their brakes during a stop. The problem with most of the newer car automation is rather than automating a single task, the attempt is to try and...
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    Pipeline Fire near Houston, TX

    Trust the computer, the computer is your friend. Or as the old adage goes: "To err is human, to really fuck things up you need a computer."
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    Pittsburgh bridge collapse

    Update to the NTSB Report released: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY22MH003.aspx AP news story: https://apnews.com/article/pittsburgh-bridge-collapses-c038e5cdd72c19d3c192fa7a22732c53

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