Joe, You've taken all the thrill out of living on the left coast. Quakes are bad enough, but a Tsunami has real meaning now. Hope you're not going to experience any soon. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > We in Seattle and down in San Francisco will be counting on your first > responders when the big ones hit out here. And it will come. AND, the media > won't know about it beforehand. Well, except for the Tsunami. They'll have > 6-15 minutes to talk about that. > > It's one of the reasons I choose to live in a wood frame house 68' above mean > sea level. 170 miles from the Pacific and 250 from the nearest subduction > zone. 1000 yards from the nearest river (which is tidal where I live, near > Puget Sound). It is less expensive than having to pay for flood and > earthquake insurance. > > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 19:08 , Stan Halpin wrote: > >> I keep thinking of Agnes, 1972. Not much of a storm, but it just kept >> pumping rain into the mid-atlantic states to as far north as the southern >> Finger Lakes. My uncle (home builder) was overwhelmed with work for the next >> two years in Cortland NY. Extensive flood damage, entire neighborhoods wiped >> out. Virginia, WVa, Maryland, and Pennsylvania all got it bad. >> >> stan >> >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >>> Here on the coast just south of Boston, we did pretty well. >>> Interesting that we knew to expect more wind damage than water, being >>> on the eastern side of the storm. But there's minimal damage to >>> property, no flooding to speak of. Many neighboring towns are still >>> without power, and will be for days, but we only had a couple of very >>> brief interruptions yesterday. What surprised me most is the toll >>> that the storm took in Vermont. Major flooding, damage to homes, >>> towns, roadways, bridges... I'm not sure anyone expected that extent >>> of destruction up there, being an inland state especially. >>> >>> Today was as beautiful a day as we've had all summer, though. >>> >>> :) >>> -c > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without > Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
