Where will you be when the fire alarm go
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worldatarms ONLINE (12/16/2015) [-] He looks like the kind of man who wouldn't give a ****
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mattyl (12/16/2015) [-] **mattyl used "*roll picture*"**
**mattyl rolled image** MFW I died a horrible death in a fire because I wasted time trying to make a funny video
**mattyl rolled image** MFW I died a horrible death in a fire because I wasted time trying to make a funny video
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asotil (12/16/2015) [-] One of these days there's gonna be an actual fire and the only charred remains found of someone are going to be a snapchat video of them in bed saying they're not going
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
I've been in the shower when the power went out in a building that water pressure was powered by the electricity with soap in my hair.
That sucks.
That sucks.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] Water pressure powered by electricity... that sounds both dangerous and inefficient
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
Pumps are powered by electricity.
If you fill up a water tank in your home, you need electricity to pull the water out.
If you pull water from an underground aquifer, you need electricity to pull water out of the ground.
This was a remote arctic camp.
If you fill up a water tank in your home, you need electricity to pull the water out.
If you pull water from an underground aquifer, you need electricity to pull water out of the ground.
This was a remote arctic camp.
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dukeofbattle (12/16/2015) [-] I'm on a well and part of my water system is an air tank used to pressurize the water for just that scenario. If I lose power I can go for a couple hours if I don't flush the toilet or other water heavy tasks, but for drinking and hand washing I'm fine until the power comes back on or I can hook up the generator.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] Remote arctic camp makes sense. It's always been my understanding that the pressure of the water was provided elsewhere (i.e. the source to my house is pressurised instead)
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
They pump water into either water tanks on hills / water towers and use gravity to pressurize it, or if in a city, they pump it into pressurized water tanks located underground.
Both require electricity. Should your entire city go black out... you'll lose pressure.
Both require electricity. Should your entire city go black out... you'll lose pressure.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] Yeah, but i'm a privelaged white male in a first world country. The chances of my whole city going black Hehe, racist innuendo are pretty slim
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
Not really.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages#2015
It happens a lot more than you'd think. A maintenance worker accidentally cut a major line in los angeles and shut off a section along like 1/4th of the cities power for a day.
Earthquakes, Tornados, Ice storms, an idiot, a terrorist... they can cause that if they hit the right spot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages#2015
It happens a lot more than you'd think. A maintenance worker accidentally cut a major line in los angeles and shut off a section along like 1/4th of the cities power for a day.
Earthquakes, Tornados, Ice storms, an idiot, a terrorist... they can cause that if they hit the right spot.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] I live in calgary AB. we're too lcose to the mountains to have tornados and many other natural disasters (the flood a couple years ago is the closest we've ever come in my lifetime) so statistically you're right, but situationally i'm safe
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
Also... major cities are the first to get hit by nukes if the world goes that way.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] Fair, but i really can't see any reason someone would hit calgary. we don't do **** all (unless that makes us the perfect target somehow)
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verycoolcat (12/16/2015) [-]
Every city in a non-third world country on the planet has at least one nuclear weapon aimed at it.
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xtrmbragnrytz (12/16/2015) [-] Alright, NOW you're getting into conspiracy theroist levels... I'm gonna go..
