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Originally Posted by 58-4ever
I'm trying to enjoy some Wild Turkey and some IPA with a little final four action. And everytime lighting strikes they interrupt basketball! I really hate these newscasters going for the best ratings with their new and improved Doppler systems. Just put on the damn game and stop trying to scare people every time it sprinkles!
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I've 'hated' England since 1988. Federal mandate of removal of Pb (lead) from gasoline had just come into play. For a couple of years I'd been using wet chemistry methods to determine the amount of Pb in the air in and around OKC. England gets on the air and says it was stupid to have the mandate. With his knowledge of weather he couldn't see how dangerous levels of Pb could be present with Oklahoma winds. This is a guy who should know about how the geography and lay of the land can develop unique weather phenomenon and air conditions. The area around Penn Ave and I-40 was particularly bad at Pb levels and was a low area that car exhaust would accumulate. (And there was housing through the area.)
For the record within a year of increasing unleaded gasoline use the amounts of Pb in the air samples required one to use a six fold increase in sensitivity to detect Pb levels. I went from wet chemistry to emission spectroscopy in order to monitor levels.
The interesting thing is the discussions my in-laws older sibling use to have about the use of Pb. He was a chemist with the ethyl corp. and with the Texas Oil Boards. They were well aware of the Pb health hazard in the early part of the 20th century.
The tradeoffs might have been acceptable with fewer than 20 million cars and with less driving but in the last of half of the 20th century it was as escalating problem.