"To: jeffers
Yep and what is interesting, and I haven't heard it said, is the next to last paragraph of your post. As the center of the bell goes thru each phase and so on.
But what is interesting, is that those phases are fluid."
Exactly fluid, you can literally see the "slosh" effect. It's so clear that a hydraulics guy could quantify the whole process.
On a side note, if you expect the worst, there are never any surprises, and the dynamics are dampened greatly.
Gack!
Plus which, you're able to respond more intelligently, because you'll have already considered what you'd do next.
In my line of work (satellites) one finds that a lot of mission failures are caused by a failure to ask (much less answer and plan for) the question: "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
There are a lot of folks in NO and elsewhere who clearly didn't ask that question. And the mediots are now showing that they haven't thought about it either.