Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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One day in November of 2018 in a canyon at the Sierra Nevada foothills, one steel hook that held up a string of electrical insulators – little white discs that prevent electricity from moving between them – broke. The power line that was attached to the electrical insulators fell onto the nearby transmission tower, creating a continuous electric discharge that was estimated to reach between 5,000 and 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Molten metal fell from the tower onto the brush below, starting a f...
In the Pacific Northwest, there are two types of natural disasters you probably think about fairly often because of either secondhand or lived experience: earthquakes and volcanoes. Unlike other seismically-active parts of the world, the PNW hasn’t had a devastating earthquake in recent history, but it is expected to. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake is due to hit the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line stretching from Vancouver Island to Northern California, within the next 50 years. This e...
