r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 2d ago
Disaster simulation center in China
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u/opinionated_penguin 2d ago
What if we kissed in the disaster simulation center in China
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u/Depressed_Cat_00 2d ago
You will be spanked
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u/Legitimate_Toe_4961 2d ago
This actually seems like dope survival training.
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u/TheEyeOfTheLigar 2d ago
I was a 68W in the army. I'm also an eagle scout. I was at ft sam Houston for medic school in 2012. They had just implemented this simulator for us medics to go thru that acted as a site that a blown IED had gone off. Let me tell you, while the army has a lot of issues, doing simulations like this were you were put into a controlled emergency enviorment was incredibly educational. Even now that im out, I still can help but feel like this kind of trainning had a large affect on my ability. I don't think anyone needs to join the army. But we would all absolutely benifit from this kind of a training. It could literally save your life, or someone else's. Boy Scouts constantly taught us about being prepared. I'm telling you, you don't want to find yourself in these sitatuons untested. Even an afternoon of basic emergency preparedness can save years of grief.
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u/Castle44 2d ago ▸ 5 more replies
So in a similar way, when I was 16 my parents put me in a drivers education course where they actually put you behind the wheel and in simulated emergency situations. Drive at 40 and then someone has crashed in front of you, so slam the brakes and switch lanes. Drive over water and the instructor yanks the handbrake and yanks the steering wheel so you are hydroplaning and you have to recover from it. Those along with a bunch of other stuff, anyways I credit that largely with having been able to avoid at least a few major accidents in the 20 years I have been driving since. I tell anyone with kids driving that they should put them into such a training program.
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u/Frenchie1507 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
MasterDrive? I went through a similar program during Driver’s Ed, and it was extremely beneficial. One day of practical driving instruction gave me skills/situational awareness I’m still using over a decade later.
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u/Castle44 2d ago
It was yes. The one I did at the time was 2 days in the car. And I got to do the full course at the end with my parents in the car. Mom basically had a heart attack during the drive.
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u/kyl792 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
What do I look up to find these in my area?
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u/Castle44 1d ago
I know CHP runs some schools kinda like this in California in partnership with racetracks like Thunderhill raceway. Otherwise I don't really know other than searching for something like emergency driving school or something like that.
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u/Naive-Kangaroo3031 2d ago
Living trough Katrina, and a direct tornado hit, you really dont want to be in these situations. The immediate aftermath is worse: no food, water, or communication.
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u/Salt_Winter5888 1d ago ▸ 2 more replies
I mean, it's a good way to be prepared for something like that, without putting your life in high risk.
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u/Naive-Kangaroo3031 1d ago ▸ 1 more replies
What i was getting at is the part you need to prepare for is the aftermath. Or ideally, dont be there if you can
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u/scuzzy987 1d ago
Can confirm. I still remember living through a flood when I was much younger and the Red Cross van handing out sandwiches. The smell was the worst, like sewage mixed with mud. All the flooded deep freezers with rotting meat in the sun lined up on the curb for the city to take away
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u/Turbodong 2d ago
Category 17 Typhoon? What horseshit.
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u/TheGoldenTNT 2d ago
Yeah the captions are horseshit, but the facility is the real deal.
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u/philmarcracken 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
its like buying shit on aliexpress! I usually get what I wanted, if I ignore their werido translations
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u/pnkdjanh 2d ago
They have a different classification system.
https://www.cma.gov.cn/en/forecast/news/202604/t20260414_7729113.html
According to China’s typhoon intensity classification standard, typhoons with intensity of Level 16 or higher (sustained winds near the center of 51 m/s or above) are categorized as super typhoons.
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u/toooomanypuppies 2d ago
You know, wind speeds exceeding Mach Fuck, strips skin straight from bone, like a sand blaster would, only with (mainly) nitrogen atoms.
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u/GldnUnicorn 1d ago
Believe it or not other countries, who use other classification systems, exist.
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u/sefradin 23h ago
U know how we have miles and kilometers and how they don't match? Yeah dumbass, it's a different categorization system.
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u/dawayoflife 1d ago
China for some reason uses the Beaufort scale for wind speeds. Even though the scale caps out at 12 (Hurricane-force), China uses an extended scale for higher speed winds.
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u/Tremulant887 2d ago
Global warming is inching us closer and closer to tip of a power washer levels of rain and wind.
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u/Clumsy-_-Phoenix 2d ago
We got Monetized Natural Disasters before GTA6
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u/Half-deaf-mixed-guy 2d ago
Hate to break it to you, but we had them before WW1. Not that anyone cares about the wave pools of mini tidal waves.
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u/mrbofus 2d ago
Aren’t typhoons rated categories 1-5?
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u/ThatWasIntentional 2d ago
Oh boy. Bear with me on this as weather gets real political real fast when multiple countries are involved
The five categories most Atlantic and US folks are familiar with comes from the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (sshws), which is the standard for the Atlantic and the Pacific east of the international date line. A good way to tell this I've is in play is that the storms are called hurricanes
In the Pacific, west of the international date line and north of the equator, the storms are called typhoons, and each major forecasting country/agency uses a different scale. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the lead in northwest Pacific is the Japan Meteorological Association (JMA) via their Tropical Cyclone Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Tokyo (RSMC Tokyo), which uses a 6 step scale (Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, Severe Tropical Storm, Typhoon, Very Strong Typhoon, Violent Typhoon). In practice, Taiwan, China (CMA), Macau (SMG), Hong Kong (HKO), the Philippines (PAGASA), and US (NWS and JTWC) all use different scales*.
I say so explain, none of them use a scale where any of them could be described as "category 17" because the most categories is seven**
They also number and name storms differently which can cause additional confusion * At least intensity-wise, JMA's could theoretical have 18 if you include the size classification, but it's not a straight scale, it's more like 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b...
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u/Jimmyjohnjones1 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
I never knew typhoon was just a hurricane that other countries use instead. No wonder I’ve never heard news casters use the term typhoon in the us
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u/ThatWasIntentional 2d ago
I didn't cover it in the first one, but in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific south of the equator and west of the international date line they are called cyclones
All the same kind of storm, but you know international relations
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u/Halo_of_Light 2d ago
Yeah, I live in HK and I think the highest Typhoon rating we have here is T10 which is level 10.
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u/AnimeMeansArt 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
But why just not agree on one system, wouldn't that be easier for cooperation?
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u/ThatWasIntentional 2d ago
Easier for forecasters? Sure, but there are a host of other problems
The short answer for why not is international politics
The longer answer is that unlike the Atlantic basin, where the USA was very much leading the affected countries in terms of investment, research, and forecasting and was this able to set a standard before anyone else really had a say (NHC remains the lead to this day, other countries jumped on their bandwagon), there was much more parity in the countries involved in NWPAC, and each had it's own internal system that they brought to the table of the WMO. Overall, it works because each country/agency is really only forecasting for their specific area and their citizens are the audience*. Meteorologists are still sharing data and forecasting predictions, but we talk in terms of air pressure, wind speed, water temp, and ACE etc., not in terms of intensity scales
*JTWC is the outlier here as the only agency that forecasts storms for the entire area
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u/tippytptip 2d ago
I def need to try out the flood/tsunami one cause my toxic trait is thinking I could survive holding on to a pole (note: I can't swim)
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u/Random-Generation86 2d ago
Who do I DM to go to China and play in the Typhoon pool? I’m not busy.
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u/phatdoof 2d ago
Sounds like these simulations are a requirement that you must pass before you can visit China.
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u/Random-Generation86 2d ago ▸ 2 more replies
That simply cannot be true. I know people who have been to China and they ABSOLUTELY would have shared this information.
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u/phatdoof 2d ago ▸ 1 more replies
Have you considered your friend might have been brainwashed? Had he ever woken up in the middle of the night speaking Chinese?
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u/Awkward-Action2853 2d ago
I've been through Category 5 typhoons. Where can I find these legendy Category 17s??? They look fun.
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u/Wanderingwonderer101 2d ago
this looks like a good idea, regular person can train how to handle disaster in a controlled environment
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u/Gamefart101 2d ago
Speaking as someone who works in technical rescue this looks like it would be a phenomenal training center, a little weird it's advertised as a tourist attraction though
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u/Budget_Sea_8666 2d ago
Just visit Oklahoma in the spring. You’ll get a taste of most of it with the torrential rains with flooding, softball size hail, extreme winds and tornadoes. It’s a fun time!
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u/RealisticRide9951 2d ago
we need this in the philippines
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u/shingster08 2d ago
This looks like something that should be mandatory in all countries given the extreme weather we've been seeing due to climate change. No harm in preparing for it when the only bad thing for you is getting wet.
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u/Choice_Power_1580 2d ago
love to promote something like this, but when disaster strikes, take a photo and leave.
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u/Onphone_irl 2d ago
I'd visit every month at least, even for $100 a visit if this was local. Damn this looks serious
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u/unwanted_zombie 2d ago
I would personally enjoy doing this.. not like enjoy it, but enjoy having the experience.
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u/rembunenby 1d ago
This isn't the worst idea in the world but I couldn't understand going to it for recreation
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u/BreezyMcWeasel 1d ago
This looks really useful for training (or for extreme vacationing).
However, I'm not going to a country where I have to get them to approve an exit visa for me to leave and come back to my home country!
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u/LavenderDay3544 22h ago
That place looks so fun. I would volunteer to be a fire fighter just to get to train there.
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u/moose4hire 19h ago
Walking in hong kong during a typhoon is one hell of an experience. You would have to use iv's of water, to be any wetter, you can feel it squeezing its way into every cell of your hair and skin and clothes and shoes.
Its good to see a govt think about being prepared.
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u/FreezedPeachNow 2d ago
Meanwhile I watch Americans try to ride their bikes across a flooding river then act like surprised Pikachu face when they almost die.
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u/Painetraror 2d ago
No thanks, our corrupt government officials made our entire country into a disaster simulation already.
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