Nuclear Worker: “Imminent flood coming” near nuke plant from Hurricane Harvey…
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“Potentially catastrophic”… Running out of food… Working tirelessly to manage problems… Area turned “upside down”
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Nearby river forecast to rise 50 ft and overtop levees, “Major Flood Stage”
27
August, 2017
Toronto Star, Aug 27, 2017 (emphasis added): Canadian engineer Raihan Khondker said his family safely left their home in southeastern Texas, but he was forced to return to the Bay City area as part of a support team at a nuclear power plant. For three days, Khondker, who is from Toronto, has been working tirelessly to manage “one thing after another,” driving through water-choked streets to bring supplies to engineers at the plant who are running out of food. Khondker said houses in his neighbourhood have been turned “upside down,” and rising waters in a nearby river threatens to send a potentially catastrophic flood into the area. “Every single creek in the neighbourhood is full,” he said. “There is an imminent flood coming to Bay City, we just don’t know how much water we are going to see.”
Wikipedia:
The South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station… is a
nuclear power station southwest of Bay
City,
Texas, United States. The STNP occupies a 12,200-acre (4,900 ha)
site on
the Colorado River… Location: Matagorda
County…
Bay
City Tribune,
Aug 27, 2017: National
Weather Service: Rainfall predictions for Matagorda County…
Total county precipitation estimated through Friday, Sept. 1 will be
15 to 25 inches. Possible“unprecedented”
rainfall through
Friday. Catastrophic flooding is ongoing with flash
flood emergencies remaining
in effect. The threat for continued
additional catastrophic, unprecedented, and life threatening
flooding continues
today and into next week… Harvey is drifting southeast towards
Matagorda Bay… Tornado threat continues with rain bands coming
onshore and moving inland. Have had multiple
tornadoes reported with damage…
Bay
City Tribune,
Aug 27, 2017: 48-hour rainfall estimates for Matagorda County is
12.89 inches with parts of the county receiving over 20 inches… The
Bay City police department has reported they are receiving over 100
calls per hour. Currently Matagorda County is still under
a mandatory evacuation.
According to EOC chair Judge Nate McDonald and Sheriff Skipper
Osborne, the only people allowed to enter must have proper
credentials. The list includes persons with a red EOC badge affixed
to their driver’s license, plant
workers with plant ID to go to work,
essential city, county and district employees…
The
Weather Channel,
Aug 27, 2017: The [Colorado]
river may overtop levees by several feet in Bay City.
According
to National
Weather Service,
the Colorado River near Bay City was at a depth of around 2 feet on
Aug 24, 2017. The river is forecast to be over 51 ft this week, an
increase of nearly 50 feet — and at a “Major Flood Stage”.
Washington
Post,
Aug 27, 2017: [C]atastrophic flooding continues to plague Southeast
Texas in the wake of the storm. The worst
fears of flooding have been realized with
Harvey. Close to three feet of rain has already fallen in Southeast
Texas, and there’s still more to come. It’s
the most extreme rainfall the region has ever witnessed…
The National Hurricane Center said isolated storm rainfall
totals could reach 50 inches, which would rival some of the most
extreme rain events in U.S. history and
break the state rainfall record in Texas… “This disaster’s
going to be a landmark event,” Brock Long, FEMA administrator, said
on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “This
is a storm that the United States has not seen yet.”…
ABC
News,
Aug 27, 2017: “This
event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond
anything experienced,”
the National Weather Service (NWS) tweeted this morning.
Watch
ABC’s broadcast here
Fukushima news; TEXAS, STP Nuke Rectors EPIC Flooding, Pacific Salmon Collapse
Fukushima news; TEXAS, STP Nuke Rectors EPIC Flooding, Pacific Salmon Collapse
General bacground
Google tells me the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station is closed. How informative of them!
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