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Old December 9th 11, 10:24 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default wind turbine blows up in todays storm

In article
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Weatherlawyer writes:
On Dec 8, 10:51*pm, Scott W wrote:
On Dec 8, 10:34*pm, Neil
wrote:

On 08/12/2011 21:28, Stan Laurel wrote:


http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...13585_winturbi...


Good heavens! I thought the subject line was a bit dramatic before I
looked at the image but it really has blown up, hasn't it!


Quite a dramatic picture.


I thought these things were supposed to have inbuilt brakes? Still at
least an exploding turbine cause less damage than an exploing nuclear
sub station...


Odd how the camera was posed perfectly and the cameraman was on the
spot.


Nowadays, when everyone (except me) seems to have a mobile phone capable
of taking pictures, it's not so surprising to get rare events captured
as it would have been a few years ago.
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John Hall
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by those who have not got it."
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