Hi,
Seattle.
Don't you know we have rain 200 days a year and drizzle the other 165.25? ;)
I've seen a fair bit of this planet, and I've never found anyplace I'd rather live. However, we have had three quakes big enough to crack plaster in the nineteen years we've lived here. We've lost most of our big trees to wind storms (roofs are another matter -- I got lucky, if replacing a roof before it is totally decrepit is "lucky"). We regularly are without power for one multi-day stretch per year (not as common closer in, but in the 'burbs thirty miles out it is). And I've had to find creative paths to my high ground house through the floods of numerous springs.
Yep, there are a lot of beautiful places (ask the residents of Pompeii) but nature is, after all, a mother. :)
I think disaster aid is really a bailout for insurance companies, and makes for good baby kissing politics.
Wasn't disaster aid what made this country great? Didn't they use it to rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake and Chicago after the fire. Didn't the settlers depend on it when they were wiped out by famine, Indians, drought, and munching on each other in the mountain snows?
Oh, wait. We didn't have that then, did we?
--Pete
Seattle.
Don't you know we have rain 200 days a year and drizzle the other 165.25? ;)
I've seen a fair bit of this planet, and I've never found anyplace I'd rather live. However, we have had three quakes big enough to crack plaster in the nineteen years we've lived here. We've lost most of our big trees to wind storms (roofs are another matter -- I got lucky, if replacing a roof before it is totally decrepit is "lucky"). We regularly are without power for one multi-day stretch per year (not as common closer in, but in the 'burbs thirty miles out it is). And I've had to find creative paths to my high ground house through the floods of numerous springs.
Yep, there are a lot of beautiful places (ask the residents of Pompeii) but nature is, after all, a mother. :)
I think disaster aid is really a bailout for insurance companies, and makes for good baby kissing politics.
Wasn't disaster aid what made this country great? Didn't they use it to rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake and Chicago after the fire. Didn't the settlers depend on it when they were wiped out by famine, Indians, drought, and munching on each other in the mountain snows?
Oh, wait. We didn't have that then, did we?
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?