Posted on 06/24/2023 7:03:55 AM PDT by CFW
Campbell and Converse counties in northeast Wyoming scrambled Friday in response to a tornado that tore through the North Antelope Rochelle coal mine, reportedly tossing vehicles, flipping trains and destroying a building.
The tornado injured eight people after it touched down south of Wright, Wyoming about 6 p.m., Leslie Perkins, Campbell County public information officer, said in a press release four hours after the event.
Six of the injured people were transported to Campbell County Health; one was taken to a hospital in Douglas, Wyoming. The remaining person refused services, the statement says, adding that personnel did not classify the injuries as immediately life threatening.
By 10 p.m. there were still 10 Campbell County Fire Department units, six sheriff’s deputies and three ambulances on scene, wrote Perkins. Employees who have been accounted for have been taken to Gillette via Campbell County School District buses. There are efforts underway to transport employees who live in Casper or Douglas also, the release says.
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Ya , I saw the movie many times
WOW! Our power plants in Arkansas and Texas gets their coal from the Gillette mines! Wonder if this will be a disruption.
I’m retired so it does not affect me!
70 miles from where I am hanging out. We lost power for 40 minutes or so.
So being retired doesn’t affect our electricity? I should let ‘NVenemy’, uh, NVenergy know. They’ve cranked my “equal payment” plan 90% in the last 15 months. Maybe they’ll refund me. 😂👍
—I worked for six weeks there in 1988, consulting for a contractor at the New Rochelle operation—
Generally speaking, most utilities only have a couple days of coal in reserve plus they may have coal stored in cars on side tracks and loads enroute to the various plants. If there’s a disruption at the mine, lines etc., there could be an impact. The storms we got in Nebraska were spurred out of Wyoming.
There was a tornado in Southern Wyoming about thirty years ago that caused massive damage because it was moving so slowly. Nothing in its path stood a chance because it had too much time to blow everything apart.
I retired from a coal fired power plant 6 years ago. We were required to keep at least a 30-day stockpile of coal in case of supply disruptions like this. During a few severe winters a 30 day supply was almost not enough.
Our power plant had a huge storage of coal for at least 90 days or more.
I got a generator just in case.
Solar or wind? 😂👍
Gas. Enough for a few hours of power.
Nice. Could have used one a few times when we were in Fla. 🌪🌀
The reserve capacity of coal fired electric plants is probably the real reason the democrats of Oregon got rid of our one coal plant.
God’s pissed off at Wyoming and Texas right now. They better shape up.
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