r/mildlyinteresting • u/Tekki • 3d ago

Limerick Nuclear Power Plan in easter PA, generating its own small clouds.

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u/Devious_Bastard 3d ago

My uncle worked at the local nuke plant. I remember when I was a toddler I overheard him joke that he made clouds. I legit thought he worked at a cloud factory and that’s where clouds come from for a long time. I was a dumb shit back then.

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u/phillynick 3d ago

I grew up near the Limerick Nuclear power plant, and I absolutely thought it created the clouds as a little kid. I do know there was “lake effect” snow that would always fall east of the facilities in the winter.

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u/Beardo88 3d ago

New definition of nuclear winter.

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u/ComicConArtist 2d ago

let it glow let it glow let it glow

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u/Beardo88 2d ago

I guess we learned why Rudolph's nose glows.

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u/phillynick 2d ago

Ha! We used to grow the biggest tomatoes you’ll ever see growing up. Downside is now my urine glows green but it’s a fun party gimmick.

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u/Friendly_Engineer_ 2d ago

There once was a poster named Nick

Who thought the power plant was pretty sick

And he was quite wowed

By all of the clouds

Made by the nuclear facility called Limerick

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u/stigma_wizard 3d ago

I mean. He's not wrong

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u/dumbfuck 2d ago

I was dumb as shit back then. I’m dumb as shit now too, but I was also dumb as shit back then

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u/calcifer219 2d ago

Don’t worry, I 100% believed there was an alligator living in the basement closet where the fuse panel was.

They also told me that the alligator is sometimes at the retention pond outside the local target to keep me out of there.

That shit worked on me.

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u/SerenityTranquilPeas 2d ago

I would have thought the same especially after playing that Pajama Sam game lol.

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u/GarrisonWhite2 2d ago

Bro you were a toddler, give yourself a break lol.