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Hi Bodge, Thanks very much for the extra information, and that is my (limited!) understanding also. However I guess I'm still being overly obscure. I've been blogging about hurricanes and their side effects for years, including videos taken from helicopters over places like Gonaive and...

Hi Jim, As my moniker might suggest, I personally am more concerned with the storm surge than the "128 mph" winds themselves. Many moons ago I was involved in slightly secret research which relied upon the fact that submarines that wished to escape detection could turn off most things. However...

@Morbius - I am familiar with the concept of safety margins, and I assume nuclear engineers use pretty wide ones. I was enquiring (perhaps too obliquely?) about where I might be able to find some in depth reading on the topic. How would Brunswick or Oyster Creek fare in a Cat 4 or 5 "storm in...

I'm an electronic engineer, not a nuclear engineer, and having just discovered this thread courtesy of the Great Google I have a dumb noob question. I was somewhat perturbed to http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-storm-irene-energy-idUSTRE77O6HI20110825" that Brunswick "is built to...