Fiji typhoon

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by tochatihu, Feb 20, 2016.

  1. tochatihu

    tochatihu Senior Member

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    Is named Winston and it looks like the biggest in memory to pass through that island nation. Rarely, we can be glad to not be there. One hopes for the least possible damage and loss of life.

    I've been interested in such storms for decades, but more now so, as an obscure physics article teaches that wood breaks at 42 m/s 'wind load'. All sizes, all wood species, even palms that are 'wood' only under a relaxed definition. If this is true, now we can just walk through any wind-blown forest and see where that speed limit was exceeded. New stuff, me hearties. Plus, the spirit of Douglas Adams looks down and says "dang, how did I get that right?"
     
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    We just had new poster from FiJi