@hudebnik I don't know how to - it was only by accident that I tilted the screen & then I was transfixed on both occasions
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:19:24 PM
@hudebnik ..except to keep posting & persuade others to look too & hope Deb was recording!!
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:20:17 PM
@Nancy i haven't seen any more vid from the new cam - only that 1 time
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:21:18 PM
Hello, just logged on today and wondered how long has 4 been smoking like that? yikes.
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:21:34 PM
@NervousinNJ just under 2 hours -but you've missed far worse around 1.5 hrs ago
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:22:50 PM
oh no, what happened??
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:23:21 PM
@nancy - pls could you post my flash etc wiki page up above for the moment so that people find it? ty
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:23:24 PM
@hudebnik It went for about 30 minutes. I have stills at about one every minute. Haven't had time yet to cut them out and put them into a slideshow, but will do.
by jt 5/22/2011 4:23:51 PM
4 has been a mess for days even in daylight hours..it's just that depending on wind direction the smoke comes out different sides. I've been wondering about black smoke for the last three days as it looked to be visible on Teppycam at times.
by LM 5/22/2011 4:25:03 PM
@jt - please elaborate
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:25:30 PM
I don't buy that 4 SFP is pristine! BS!...
by LM 5/22/2011 4:26:47 PM
@UKVal I looked through the last few pages and did not see anything earth shattering, was there another flash or something?
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:29:35 PM
@LM I know what you mean. I was shocked when I saw that nice, pristine video. We've all been watching steam just blow off of that thing as fast as they can put in water for nearly two months now. My mind looked at that video and BS was the first I thought, too.
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:30:07 PM
@hudebnik The event last night UK time, sunrise JST, went from 19.44 to about 20.23. I took screenshots while watching it. It is only a part of the screen and to make it into a slideshow each image needs to be cropped.
by jt 5/22/2011 4:30:20 PM
@NervousinNJ no but a prolonged release of smoke that covered the plant
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:30:42 PM
@radioguy @NervousinNJ agreed that vid was BS!!
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:31:13 PM
@NervousinNJ whoops I meant LM not you!!!
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:32:12 PM
@UKVal OH, ok, fun... It amazes me that they can still be in there working through all of this. I wonder when/if the powers that be will comment on/lie about the latest releases...
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:32:13 PM
@UKVal I figured that :)
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:32:32 PM
@jt - so that would cover @deb's second video (her blue period). If you could put them up on a wiki page I'll edit them in. Just post them roughly, I can tidy up.
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:33:13 PM
@nervousinNJ - we didn't see a flash but we did observe the pink camera effect again, at exactly the same time, 1906JST. It was very cloudy so we couldn't see the plant at all, just a pink cast to the pic which slowly cleared like last night.
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:35:03 PM
@NervousinNJ On that note...I posted an NHK article talking about how there was a glitch on Saturday that caused them to stop injecting nitrogen into 1 for 3 hrs...I conjectured that the glitch happened because all the workers had to run screaming during the flash/smoke out! www3.nhk.or.jp
by LM 5/22/2011 4:35:14 PM
@NervousinNJ oh !TEPCO will deny anything untoward like they did for the last really big smoke ( as opposed to steam) 2 Saturday's ago
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:35:34 PM
"The manual NHK has obtained shows that the pressure inside the vessel was close to the level that requires a venting operation 13 hours before the explosion occurred.
"But the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, did not start the operation until 6 and a half hours before the explosion, and the operation was carried out just one and a half hours before the blast because it was hampered by high-level radioactivity."
The official NHK apologist version of the reason it was not vented.
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:36:24 PM
@hudebnik so are we now thinking it could have been a sunset/sunrise lighting effect, or still likely a flash?
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:36:29 PM
@LM Yeah that could explain it! :) scary.
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:37:07 PM
..I'd like to ventilate all over TEPCO!!
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:37:14 PM
@UKVal I just cannot understand why they are still running the show, ludicrous!
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:37:53 PM
@NervousinNJ I think the colorful sky effect was atmospheric, from the fog/dust... it was weird whiteout light, and it never cleared at the cam site all day. The flash is something else altogether.
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:38:02 PM
@UKVal The flash was a sunset thing, though, right?
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:38:44 PM
@NervousinNJ It's absolutely pathetic and Kan should be held accountable!
by LM 5/22/2011 4:38:48 PM
@radioguy Ok thanks. I so wish I could have seen it happen!
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:39:11 PM
@radioguy - agreed about thepink - Hud & I worked that 1 out this am. But the flash & the aura.... ??
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:39:35 PM
@LM We know for a fact that the venting was held up for more than an hour because Kan was worried about re-criticality, and maybe more for the flyover.
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:39:39 PM
@nervous - personally I don't think it was any sort of lighting effect, especially as the strange pulsating blue early morning effect is in exactly the same place as the previous night's pink ones.
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:39:46 PM
@radioguy the flash was sunset. The aura over 2s (both cloudy). I've seen lots of fog halos & this isn't 1
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:40:25 PM
@LM I think whenever this thing is all over, he will be...
by NervousinNJ 5/22/2011 4:41:05 PM
over 2 dawns ..sorry word missed - think my keyboard is packing up
by UKVal 5/22/2011 4:41:07 PM
@radioguy - the flash was at dusk, and it was SOME FLASH I tell you. I was lucky to see it, I just happened to be looking straight at the monitor when it happened.
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:41:15 PM
Having no visibility yesterday was bad timing.
by radioguy 5/22/2011 4:41:18 PM
@radio guy True. This event is unprecedented and needs minds who can think outside the box..including the cash register!
by LM 5/22/2011 4:41:27 PM
Movies anyone?
by deb 5/22/2011 4:41:47 PM
Yup tho we've now had 2 pink events followed by 2 steamy nights.
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:41:54 PM
Hi @deb. you're a star!
by hudebnik 5/22/2011 4:42:19 PM
@radioguy -except that I saw the pink again -this time with full cloud cover so I'm sure that the clouration was like a harvest moon effect. But not the dusk flash or the 2 dawn auras