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US Govt shutdown prevents tsunami-warning buoy going live

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US Govt shutdown prevents tsunami-warning buoy going live

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

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The tsunami-warning buoy was deployed this morning (Jan 18), but remains to be activated. Photo: NDWC

 

PHUKET: The US government shutdown due Congressional appropriations has left the tsunami-warning buoy deployed off Phuket today useless as the buoy remains to be manually activated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

 

Dr Prasong Thammapala, Scientist Senior Professional Level at the National Disaster Warning Centre (NDWC) in Bangkok, explained the situation to The Phuket News this morning (Jan 18).

 

“The tsunami-warning buoy was deployed at about 9am, but the buoy is not activated other yet. It must be connected to the monitoring and warning system operated by the NOAA,” he explained.


Read more at https://www.thephuketnews.com/us-govt-shutdown-prevents-tsunami-warning-buoy-going-live-70073.php#syz14oy5Ux0gdrWM.99

 
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-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-01-18

 

And Trump says most people love him for shutting down the government what a tosser its only his base and i would think that they are being hurt financially by it just like the 800,000 who arent getting paid .

3 minutes ago, steelepulse said:

Better excuse then "the batteries have gone flat".

Or the other examples quoted years ago..................

 

---The batteries were stolen

---The money for the batteries went "missing"

---The batteries were defunct through lack of maintenance.

 

After all TIT.

 

 

20 hours ago, xylophone said:

Or the other examples quoted years ago..................

 

---The batteries were stolen

---The money for the batteries went "missing"

---The batteries were defunct through lack of maintenance.

 

After all TIT.

 

 

- a fishing boat hit it

- it was swallowed by a shark

- plastic bags are interfering with the signal

They never run out of the weirdest ideas to blame farangs for the mess created by their own incompetence. Sometimes I think way too many people here were born with a brain failure syndrome.

What is the likely hood this gets hit by another ship and broken before it even comes on-line? :tongue:

An off topic posts & posts referring to it have been removed.

 

Hey whats a few more days, weeks or months when it's already been out so long? 

Now that they made it public it cost 12M Baht, its likley to disappear anyway. 

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