Reposted by (EEK!)ristina, PhD
time once again for my annual post: evacuating from hurricanes costs money and resources that a lot of people don’t have and the local governments often don’t adequately provide. evacuating is logistically difficult, sometimes impossible, and is hard to justify when the results are unpredictable.
![Screenshot of a WhatsApp text message exchange between my dad and I.
[Dad] Heat reduces the youngs modulus or stiffness so steel. Euler buckling if columns is proportion to modulus so when that drops like 50% and other columns already broken bo overlords that floor. Then dynamic force of that floor dropping causes like a 3-6x multiplication when it hits next floor so even if that not soft still break and so on down each floor with more mass buildup as it goes down😁
[Me] Ohhhhh that's a little more complicated than high school level 😭
[Dad] You're a big girl now😁🤗](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5lz2vtdyn5uewov5joiic4s/bafkreiaag23shudraucvrd7wmhmpayq6pndnh35pdfedesqhh6i6lnvyte)
