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.
