these are the types of events that can occur, will occur, and do occur on a daily basis... snafus.

i learned, i believe it was in grade school, perhaps, before, that a one cup container cannot hold one and one half cups of whatever... this concept may be extrapolated out into infinity... the quantity of said substance will not be contained in a receptacle that is designed to hold a lesser amount...

so what happened here? no one addresses the cause... only the effects or the potential effects of the occurrence.

if i were to put forth that something this inane could happen at a nuclear power plant i would be castigated non stop by the engineers on this forum... and yet, this is precisely the type of accidents that do occur and will occur at the rollover. they are made by otherwise intelligent human beings that were either not thinking clearly or are overworked and stressed out.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 1999

Answers

oops...

link

-- Anonymous, October 23, 1999

Marianne,

Can't you just see the gleam in the eyes of the fuel supplier when they got that fill-up order. And then started pumping and pumping and pumping that fuel into the filler pipe. Until, finally, it must have dawned on somebody that, Gee, they were pumping more fuel in than the tanks could possible hold. Uh Oh. Something wrong here. Better shut off that tank truck. Shut it off. SHUT..IT..OFF!!!! Good grief, look at what we have done now. Somebody is gonna get mad. Can we still bill them for the extra 2,000 gallons? Not my fault. Not my fault. Not my fault. All the way down the line. Sounds like some of the cooling water control problems we hear about at the nukes from time to time. Or that recent Japan accident where they put something like 5 times the amount of uranium in that processor that they should have. Ah heck, just another simple human mistake, huh, no big deal.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 1999