ann sanfedele wrote:
Yeah but - where were you in OCtober 1989? for instance. I've felt
several quakes out west... and a couple of tiny ones here..
I was wondering who went into McDonalds at 5PM and asked for a large shake.
The next night I was having dinner at a friend's house, we were watching
the news and glad we didn't live in that place they were showing that
had been leveled without a building left standing.
Although after pretty much every chimney in the county came down, or was
damaged to the point of needing to be taken down, the phrase
"built like a brick shithouse" took on whole new shades of meaning.
In any case, I was at work in Scotts Valley. It was big enough that I
parked my hard drive and started looking for a secure place to ride out
the excitement. My sister had a fun ride, she was about three miles
laterally from the epicenter, and about six miles vertically.
I love visiting California,but what has been going on their climate wise
recently is also something I'd have a hard time with..
In NYC I can fill up the bath tub twice a day and not do any damage
tothe environment ... I dont' own a house , and I live three flights up
in a neighborhood where the floods of Sandy only caused me a week of
power outage and it was easy to get to friends homes that
had light... in 50 years there have only been very minor weather
problems.
My point is that any significant inconvenience gets played up on the
news as a disaster of biblical proportions.
But I COULD live in Toronto...
Worse than natural disasters, they've got Knarf.
-- Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc
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