radiation to reach west coast by late Friday

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=1 " A United Nations

forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday. " if you're on the west coast, time to take your iodine if you haven't already.Ariel-- Ariel MonserratPublisher & Managing EditorGreen Egg zine

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Friday? We are in Oregon and i thought i last read that it was hitting W Coast

Wed. evening. Wondering if the Friday is 6 days as they =MSM said it would take

6 days but many of the non mainstream said it would only take 3 for W Coast. I

am assuming when it hits Cali it has alread hit here or will be at the same

time. So we are still waiting then?

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Tomorrow night/Saturday morning. They (the talking heads on TV and the supposed

experts) are saying that levels are still going to be negligible. Extra

monitors are being set up in WA, OR and CA. They expect it to hit Alaska first.

I think it's important to note this comment from the blackcat radiation

monitoring map:

" Radiation decay is a random event. That means that if the average reading is

say 16 CPM, it will not remain a steady 16, but will bounce up and down. This is

normal. The standard deviation is the square root of the average value, and the

typical maximum range is plus or minus 3 standard deviations. "

" So, using the above example, the square root of 16 is 4, so the standard

deviation is 4. 3 times 4 is 12. So we would expect the readings to be 16 +/-

12, or range from 4 to 28. That is to say, even if the radiation levels are a

" constant " 16, the apparent readings of the geiger counter will range between 4

and 28. So if you suddenly see the reading jump from 16 to 25, that does

necessarily not mean that the radiation level has increased. "

I think the last line is particularly important.

I hadn't seen that before. I think the owner of the site has added more

detailed information. I also noted that instead of updating every couple of

minutes, it is now updating every 15 minutes.

I can't say what I would do if I were on the west coast. I live in Ohio and

should have a few days after it hits CA before it is here - if it makes it this

far. I wish I could tell you what to do. I want to believe what they are

saying about negligible amounts of radiation are supposed to arrive but just

yesterday they were saying radiation would not even reach our shores.

I wonder if they are setting any monitors off-shore any distance that would

provide advance warning? I haven't heard anything about that but it makes sense

to me.

We are now screening all airplanes and passengers from Japan for radiation as

they arrive in the US.

Pamela

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