OMG. Last Friday we had a horrendous storm through the country where I dwell. The aftermath was chaos in the electrical/electronic sector. I lost the internet connection (with many others) and my telephone. Only yesterday did I get a rigged partial restore, with my connection only at half speed...
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Winds from Hurricane Irene have begun to hammer New York, bringing torrential rain and the threat of flooding in the financial district.
New York City's public transport system has been closed and the mayor said it was now too late for people to...
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The Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO hopes to put a makeshift roof over the reactor 3 turbine building at the Link Removed in preparation for Typhoon Ma-on.
The roof would cover a hole caused by a hydrogen blast in March after an earthquake and tsunami hit the plant. A hose from the reactor to a...
So far the only good news to accompany the Fukushima catastrophe has been that for all the fallout, the radiation has been mostly contained due to Northwesterly winds which have been blowing any radioactivity mostly out and into the Pacific (coupled with relatively little rainfall), as well as...
Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.
Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph...
Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is not fully prepared for heavy rain and winds of a typhoon heading towards the country, officials admit.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), which runs the plant, said some reactor buildings were uncovered, prompting fears the storm may carry radioactive...
After a big storm hit, my internet went out and I can't go on it. It's been like this for 3 months already! I tried un-pluging the network and it still wonk work!
PS: I'm on my other PC.