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Woke up at 5am this morning because I heard water gurgling sounds. Turns out there's a water main break in the street, and now our building's heating system is out of commission since it's an incredibly retarded combined domestic water and hot water heating system, and there is no pressure in it (the gurgling I heard is air sloshing around in the mains). -30C outside. Hopefully the utility gets this shit patched up by tonight, otherwise we will be in deep shit in short order.

Do all Canadians pronounce it "Mary-land"?

Raining something fierce rightnow. I havent heard it rain this hard in a few years.

Near 70 degrees today, high near 32 tomorrow, high near 60 Friday, probably a few inches of snow Monday

Malakriss_sl said:

Near 70 degrees today, high near 32 tomorrow, high near 60 Friday, probably a few inches of snow Monday

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That sounds like Ohio weather!

I love it. We had a huge dump again last night, and it was so beautiful outside this morning.

The weatherman have expertly predicted that we shall get somewhere between 1-10" of snow in a period of time beginning 'sometime' tonight until 'sometime' tomorrow afternoon which 'possibly' will start as rain or a mix and prevent pretreating roads and almost certainly result in the roads between my neighborhood and the closest highway being untouched.

New England

It was in the mid 60s very early Monday morning and then it snowed later in the afternoon in Chicago. First time that has ever happened in Chicago.

Went from 80 on Saturday to 40s on Sunday, back up the 60s late Sunday/early Monday, to mid 30s and snowing Monday afternoon.

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tl'dr: Hope you don't live on a coast, near a river in the east, or anywhere in the west.

You might also want to post some pictures of Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the massive spent fuel ponds at every nuclear generating station on the planet. I don't have a massive opposition to nuclear power like the protesters you posted above do, but there's some very practical problems with nuclear power that just don't seem to want to go away. Is it part of the solution? Yeah, sure, as a bridge technology. But it isn't the sole solution on it's own, unless there's some pretty huge breakthroughs in dealing with waste. And yeah yeah, breeders, thorium etc etc. Until someone builds a profitable, commercial scale plant neither are answers, and they have their own set of problems.

Nuclear power is hamstrung chiefly by nuclear weapons. So-called breeder reactors are capable of processing a fair portion of nuclear waste as fuel, but the problem is that they're also useful for enriching nuclear material to weapons grade. Hence, they're a political no-no.

Molten-salt thorium reactors.

Nobody'sreallybuilt them outside of a couple of pilot plantsbecauseyou can't make nukes with them. Hell, you can feed them nukes as fuel (technically the 'sparkplug') and reduce proliferation. The waste is also safer, and thorium is more abundant than lead.

Has any state anywhere ever proposed building one as a public project just to see what happens?