Re: OT: Rants on election

Charlie E. <edmondson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:17:12 -0500, Kris Krieger <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

JosephKK <quiettechblue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:46:58 -0500, Kris Krieger <me@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[snip]

I usually don't like being sarcastic (snipped portion of my post) but
I was a wee bit stressed due to pre-Ike preparations, and it's
frutrating to try to explain a point a couple times and still have it
be missed. There is a reply to my post, but the point is still missed
and I've chosen to disengage - there's a boundary between trying to
elucidate a point (or admitting an error), and being maneuvered into
a position of apologizing for oneself, and for me, it's best to simply
disengage before crossing that boundary.


Can't say that i blame you. I do not have the same kinds of weather /
environmental issues here in CA. I do have much different ones.


Oh, like those insignificant little things called earthquakes =:-o

We hada couple tremors when I liven in Monrovia, CA (yeah, been all
over) Was in Vancouver BC when that one hit in Washington State ?1998?
- that one made the eeriest sound.

All in all, "it's always somehting"- there is no place that if fre of
potantial hazards. If it isn't hurricanes, it's earthquakes (and the
midwest has had some whoppers - google "New Madrid" and
"earthquake")tornadoes, or flash-floods, or heat waves, or drought, or
snowstorms. THere is no place that's without some hazard.

Then too, people who think they're isolated from the effects of hazards,
are not - almost everyone has city water, grid-supplied electricity, and
transportation that relies on soem sort of petroleum-based fuel - and
all of those supply lines have weak points.

All anyone can do is play the odds. Especially since people have to
work to live (and save for retirement), which means they have to go
where the jobs are.



Hey, I know a bit about earthquakes...

As I sit here, I can look out my back window and see the ridgeline
that marks the Mission Creek Fault (the northern branch of the San
Andreas here) which is about a quarter mile to my south and west. If
I look a little farther, I see the other branch about a mile away to
the south. What? Me Worry????!!!!!

Charlie


Look on the bright side, I bet you don't have to buy a massage chair! ;)

I bet it's beautiful there, tho'.

I liked SoCal a great deal (lived in Monrovia, a very nice littel
town/city, for about 3 years, just about 2-3 blocks from the very
foothills). I liked the semi-desert climate, the flora and fauna, all of
it. People in Monrovia were also really nice, mostly working class, a lot
of Hispanics, a variety of people. I liked that. But the housing market
was obscene, even back in 2001-2003. And what I saw of Riverside, etc.,
the way it was "developed" - ugh.

Not that that's related to much of anything =:-o

I'm just feeling "transtangential" today <L!>


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    ... it's earthquakes (and the midwest ... Then too, people who think they're isolated from the effects of hazards, are ... that marks the Mission Creek Fault (the northern branch of the San ... Andreas here) which is about a quarter mile to my south and west. ...
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  • Re: OT: Rants on election
    ... it's earthquakes (and the midwest ... Then too, people who think they're isolated from the effects of hazards, are ... that marks the Mission Creek Fault (the northern branch of the San ... Andreas here) which is about a quarter mile to my south and west. ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
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