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To: Redcitizen

Reminded me of a copper clad convex awning I installed in downtown FW 15 years ago. It focused the sun such that it literally blistered the skin in a few seconds. We had to put up a plastic tarp hung on a boomlift to get some relief, but the sun reflected at the edges and caught the thing on fire! My first realization came as flaming drips of plastic fell on my back and head....


4 posted on 09/29/2010 6:46:34 PM PDT by metalcor
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To: metalcor
I always marvel at this thing when I'm in Vegas. It just doesn't seem structurally possible.

7 posted on 09/29/2010 6:50:04 PM PDT by TSgt (Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
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To: metalcor
My first realization came as flaming drips of plastic fell on my back and head....

Ah, the Texas sun. I lived in Dallas awhile... when I got there, I took the house plants out of the moving van first to get them out of the way. Put them on the back patio, went back to help with the unloading.

Later on, the truck finally pulls away, so I go to get the plants...

...they're toast.

9 posted on 09/29/2010 6:51:47 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: metalcor

That must have been a sizable sheet to focus that amount of sunlight to where it blisters the skin that fast. Amazing.


13 posted on 09/29/2010 6:56:46 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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