[HN Gopher] Schoellkopf Power Station Disaster - a history
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       Schoellkopf Power Station Disaster - a history
        
       Author : cf100clunk
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2021-10-30 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.niagarafrontier.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.niagarafrontier.com)
        
       | oh_sigh wrote:
       | nit: John Haney is from _Longmont_ , CO, not Longmount, CO.
        
       | allenrb wrote:
       | It strikes me that the workers stayed in place far longer than
       | one might expect today. It's hard to imagine a crew continuing to
       | work when the floor is buckling, windows breaking from the
       | stress, and so forth.
       | 
       | Today, I'm pretty certain everyone would be ordered out at the
       | first hint of impending structural failure. A lot has changed in
       | 65 years.
        
         | ajb wrote:
         | Behaviour during an emergency is strange. Lots of people will
         | keep on doing what they habitually do. After the twin towers
         | were struck there were lots of people who were still working on
         | their computers when emergency services came to get them,
         | according to reports I read at the time.
        
       | GiorgioG wrote:
       | I grew up in Western New York (granted, decades after this
       | happened) but never heard about it until it popped up on here.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccu1oooOmdU
        
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