4000 mile Radioactive Road Trip: Disney World, Cinderella's Castle, and Royal Table

Another in the series from our 4000 mile radioactive road trip to the southern most point in the United States. This time July 30th 2011, a 2hour total count background reading from the Magic Kingdom and an instantaneous reading inside Cinderella's castle at her "Royal Table".

Fortunately we found no issues of radioactive concern in this segment; in fact our primary concern was how nasty the tap water is in Disney World. For those who have never had the pleasure of drinking the warm tap water in Disney World, it frankly is the second most disgusting tap water in the United States.

Our primary tip for this segment of the radioactive roadtrip, is to use a Berkey Sport Water Bottle to make the tap water drinkable. We purchased our Berkeys to mitigate the risk of radioactive iodine contamination in drinking water while out and about, but it's greatest value in Disney World was making the tap water drinkable. The savings from avoiding buying Scrooge McDuck priced bottled waters more than paid for the Berky Sport bottles.

We suggest buying a three pack of Berkeys; One for the hotel room and two to take along. This is especially the case if you are staying in a Disney Resort, we found black stuff in our hotel water more than once; we were told the contamination was was from work the resort was performing (more on this in an upcoming post).




Single Bottles:




Overall on the RadRoad Trip we discovered:

(1) the further away one is from the Jet Stream the lower the radioactive fallout in the rain.

(2) Storms traveling East to West from Africa via the hurricane corridor tend to have ZERO radioactivity in the rainfall.

Hopefully the radioactive baseline data recorded for Disney World will have NO future use.

4000 mile Radioactive Road Trip: Marathon Florida Tropical Down Pour

4000 Mile Radioactive Road Trip
8:45 am July 22, 2011 Marathon, Fl

This storm blew in off of the Gulf of
Mexico, and was one of the highest
radioactive rainfall readings we
measured in Florida.

The overall observations from the 4000
mile radioactive road trip were:

(1) Storms blowing in East to West
via the African Hurricane corridor
tended to have ZERO radioactive
fallout

(2) The further we were from the Jet-
Stream, the lower the radioactive
fallout in the rain fall.

4000 mile Radioactive Road Trip: Disney World Wilderness Lodge Rain Storm

Part of our 4000 Mile Radioactive Road Trip fact finding mission to the Southern Most Point in the United States.

Time: 3pm July 26, 2011
Location: Disney World Wilderness Lodge


Observations made:

(1) The further we traveled away from the jet-stream, the lower the radioactivity in the rainfall.

(2) Storms moving East to West from Africa via the hurricane Corridor tended to have ZERO radioactivity

4000 mile Radioactive Road Trip: Cool Rain in the Florida Keys!

Part of our 4000 mile radioactive road trip: Marathon Florida in the FL Keys.
The rain was remarkably cool from a radioactive perspective, given the SIXTY TWO times greater than background radiation Fukushima fallout storms we have had in Saint Louis. The further the one gets from the Jet-Stream the lower the radioactive Fukushima fallout.

Notice in the video that the storm is moving from West to East; storms traveling in that direction showed radioactivity. Storms coming from the Hurricane corridor, moving East to West, tended to have ZERO radiation.

Potentially Crazy High Radioactive Rainfall in Indianapolis

The samples were taken in Indianapolis Indiana on 7/3 and 7/4 of 2011 as part of our 4000 mile radioactive road trip
.
The 7/3 sample was bone dry dust wiped from the hood of my car; it had rained heavily approximately 6 hours earlier. The 7/4 sample was from fresh rainfall and returned a radioactivity of approximately 10 times greater than background radiation.

I decided against publishing a back-calculated radioactivity for the 3am 7/3/11 rainfall because of the known unknowns regarding the sample and the high radioactivity the calculation returned.

A Radioactive Glass Bottom Boat Tour of John Pennekamp Coral Reef

This video is part of our 4000 mile Radioactive Roadtrip field investigation. A two hour timed total count was taken lasting the entirety of a Glass Bottom boat tour off of Key Largo at John Pennekamp state park.

The result was a two hour total of 2322 counts, which averages to 0.0055 mR/hr (standardized to Cs137); this is the lowest average background reading we have encountered.

Radioactive Rain Fall and Storms in Atlanta Georgia

The video is part of our 4000 mile Radioactive Roadtrip fact finding mission down to the Florida Keys and back. This video was taken driving South to North through Atlanta, Ga. During a heavy down pour, the Geiger counter INSIDE the car registered a sustained THREE times background radiation as its MINIMUM reading. Approximately 10 minutes later a sample wipe from the windshield returned a 6x background reading. The highest reading we had in Atlanta was approximately 9x background.

The pattern we noticed is that the radioactivity in the rain decreases the further one gets away from the jet stream, and the radioactivity goes to zero from storms that blow in East to West via the hurricane corridor.

Butchering Jimmy Buffett with a Radioactive Baseline

This is the first in a series of Radioactive baseline readings taken in key locations of interest during the 4000 mile Radioactive Road trip. Hopefully, the data will never become useful.

The location was Porky's BBQ in Marathon, Florida. A 10 minute reading was taken on 7/22/11, totaling 224 counts. The measurement equates to 0.0064 mR/hr (Inspector Geiger counter)

A 4000 Mile Radioactive Road Trip! Seek LESS Jet Stream and MORE Hurricane

From mid-July to early August, the Potrblog team took a nearly 4000 mile long radioactive road trip to the southernmost point in the United States and back to Saint Louis; we ran the Geiger counter nearly the entire trip. We encountered the first radioactive fallout free rain fall since the Fukushima disaster began, and complied further data that the radioactive fallout in our rainfall is directly attributable to the Fukushima nuclear nightmare.

The executive summary is as follows:
(1) The radioactivity in the rainfall decreases the further one moves away from the jet stream.
(2) The radioactivity in the rainfall goes to ZERO for storms originating from Africa traveling westward to the USA. (tropical depressions, tropical storms, hurricanes, etc)

Stay tuned for further details, videos, and an informative radioactive tour of Disney World.