--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 3/31/05 10:42 PM, L B Shriver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Better come to Iowa. We're far from the oceans and we've got corn aplenty. > > > > ******** > > > > However, some "authorities" say it doesn't look so good for the Mississippi > > valley, either. > > Pretty close to sea level, you know. >
> We're at 778 feet above sea level, with plenty of hills and trees and stuff > in between us and the oceans to stop those nasty tsunamis. *********** Yeah, but the New Madrid fault, when it fulfills its destiny as the valley that splits North America, is close enough (S.E. Missouri) to allow those tsunami waves to slosh over good ole S.E. Iowa, too: "leads geologists to suspect the the New Madrid fault is a failed rift valley: a place where the North American continent almost split into two pieces" http://rockhoundingar.com/geology/fault.html To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
