# In Perverse Anticipation of Category 6: Day of Destruction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777 "2004-11-14T22:50:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/21 "2004-11-15T16:06:07Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > Well I won’t see Wednesday’s ending because it’s being shown against _Lost_. Like they couldn’t show it on Monday night and let us miss _CSI:Caruso_. Speaking of _Lost_, did anyone notice that the Airline depicted in _DoD_ was none other than Oceanic? I don’t know what that plane scene added to this movie, it seemed a little weird in there. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/22 "2004-11-15T21:04:41Z")
> [@Boscibo](#): > > How did she know that he was cheating on her? Pay attention **Boscibo**! He came home and walked up to her while she was sitting and, as she tilted her head back and pursed ther lips, **he kissed her on the forehead!** Everyone knows that this is the universal sign of infidelity. Its not like he was distracted by the possibility of a huge power outage during his watch. The **only** explanation of his actions was the lure of another woman. > [@Fear Itself](#): > > What the heck is the “National Weather Administration” and does NOAA know somebody is stepping on their turf? The National Weather Administration is just like NOAA except their job is to ignore the data coming from billions of dollars of equipment and to agonize over their “gut feelings”. Now here’s my observations. Our fallen husband, having left his old ditzy wife Darma, has one interesting job. Apparently he is the head of distribution dispatch, transmission dispatch, generation dispatch and top PR man for a small(?) power company which supplies all of the power to Chicago via its nine generators and a power agreement with the local nuke providers. His PR duties only allow him to speak if his counterparty rep/girlfriend/PR lady is next to him at the microphone. And his nine generators all happen to be at the same power plan and six of those happen to be in such weak condition that when lightning stikes the cooling fans of a step-up transformer in the substation next to the plant they all fail (within seconds the operator knows which ones fail, the extent of the damage, and how long till repair - Scotty from Star Trek would be jealous). -So the guy handles all four of the busiest jobs in his company. -He gets to come home during a power crisis. -His wife wants him to choose between babysitting her ass or trying to keep the power on for 12 million customers. More power stuff: First time I’ve ever seen wind generators built on a laticework structure. Smallest propellers on a wind farm generator too. A commercial single blade is usually 150 feet long but the one flying through the barely crossed the 25ft span of a power line. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/23 "2004-11-16T02:43:03Z")
> [@DeVena](#): > > Well I won’t see Wednesday’s ending because it’s being shown against _Lost_. Like they couldn’t show it on Monday night and let us miss _CSI:Caruso_. :eek: I totally forgot. ☹ And this week Sayid gets… aw man! What am I going to do? Yeah **Boscibo** , I saw that, too. And no, I don’t get the point of that whole scene. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/24 "2004-11-16T02:48:47Z")
> [@Boscibo](#): > > Speaking of _Lost_, did anyone notice that the Airline depicted in > _DoD_ was none other than Oceanic? I don’t know what that plane scene added to this movie, it seemed a little weird in there. I believe the Oceanic jet figured into this movie because those scenes were from the movie _Executive Decision_ with Kurt Russell. I’m certain that at least the landing scene was taking directly from that movie and probably most of the footage of the jet in flight with computer animated storms filled in. Bubbadog, I was an engineer in a 600 Mw powerplant so was pretty much appalled by everything they were trying to do regarding the plants. How hard is it to get some simple facts straight? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/25 "2004-11-16T02:52:09Z")
> [@The Long Road](#): > > I believe the Oceanic jet figured into this movie because those scenes were from the movie _Executive Decision_ with Kurt Russell. I’m certain that at least the landing scene was taking directly from that movie and probably most of the footage of the jet in flight with computer animated storms filled in. > Bubbadog, I was an engineer in a 600 Mw powerplant so was pretty much appalled by everything they were trying to do regarding the plants. How hard is it to get some simple facts straight? Didn’t finish my thought on the Oceanic part. It was probably some filler added in at a low price. If it built suspense for anyone, that was an unexpected bonus. That’s my take on how it ended up in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/26 "2004-11-18T02:25:39Z")
Memo to Nancy McKeon. The word to describe the power system is vulnerable, not vunerable. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/27 "2004-11-18T03:10:57Z")
I’m going to sue CBS. I want those 4 hours of my life back damnit!!! My wife’s description of the hurricane, “It looks like the storm hit an Office Depot.” Nothing but some wind and paper flying around. I want those 4 hours back!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/28 "2004-11-18T03:19:36Z")
Seriously, how does a hurricane start to form in _Canada?_ And, of course, the tornado just had to be an F6. Shoulda seen that coming. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/29 "2004-11-18T03:33:28Z")
> [@Sir Dirx](#): > > Seriously, how does a hurricane start to form in _Canada?_ And, of course, the tornado just had to be an F6. Shoulda seen that coming. The hurricane was called a category 6, which doesn’t exist. I didn’t hear them reference a tornado as anything other than an F5. Miss intern says “the highest windspeed from a tornado recorded was 240 blah blah blah” and both of her bosses agree. Wrong! The highest tornado windspeed(also highest windspeed ever recorded on Earth) was recorded in Oklahoma in 1999 and was 318 miles per hours. See, we are going to fly our plane into the eye, land, pick you up and fly out. That Pilot was in the air for about a week flying from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and then Chicago. I think possibly Oklahoma at one point. Tommy the tornado chaser drove from Oklahoma to St Louis to Chicago in what appeared to be one day. What the heck was that all about? The dad hits a car, gets out and the car is stuck to the front of his truck. He asks the son to get something to pry the bumper off the tire. Kid runs back with a pipe and the car is no longer against the truck. It’s not even near the truck. Sky scrapers may fall, cities may burn and malls will be blown apart but cell towers survive so people can use there cell phones, but only occasionally. “Get out! I’ll synch the generators myself!!!” AHHHHHHHH!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! My ears are burning!!! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/30 "2004-11-18T03:39:17Z")
[QUOTE=The Long Road] Tommy the tornado chaser drove from Oklahoma to St Louis to Chicago in what appeared to be one day. What the heck was that all about? QUOTE] OK, I retract this one. I didn’t realize the distance was so small. Mapquest puts Tulsa OK, to Chicago at about 10 hours. I have now changed my opinion on the realism of this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/31 "2004-11-18T03:43:55Z")
I liked how all the evil characters - the greedy power company executive, the misguided computer engineer, the slacker teenager-- all got what they deserved, a violent end. Though to be consistent, they should have had Randy Quaid’s SUV land in a tree and survive the tornado. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777/32 "2004-11-18T23:31:31Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > I liked how all the evil characters - the greedy power company executive, the misguided computer engineer, the slacker teenager-- all got what they deserved, a violent end. Though to be consistent, they should have had Randy Quaid’s SUV land in a tree and survive the tornado. I wanted to mention something that **really** annoyed me about this movie. All suspense was ruined by the constant clips around the commericals showing what was going to happen. What was the point besides filler? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-perverse-anticipation-of-category-6-day-of-destruction/274777.md?page=1)