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Finally, my partner in paranoia appears! :) Yes, the big earthquake will arrive someday, and various things are going to fall down. Read all about it in this h
by mechanical_fish 19y ago
Finally, my partner in paranoia appears! :)
Yes, the big earthquake will arrive someday, and various things are going to fall down. Read all about it in this harrowing guide:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/ http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2005/15/
Yes, all of news.yc is in denial, which is why they conspicuously failed to vote up this guide when I posted it the first time. Don't think I didn't notice. But I will have the last laugh! My vengeance will be AWESOME to behold! THE TEMBLORS WILL DESTROY YOU ALL, AND YOUR LITTLE MACBOOKS TOO!! HAHAHAHAAA!!!
Having said that: if you've read the guide, avoided buying a house in my old neighborhoods (it's a good time to rent anyway, for completely unrelated financial reasons), stocked up on emergency water, and installed proper hardware to prevent your power tools from falling off the garage shelf onto your sports car (or your head), I think the odds are that you'll survive the earthquake in fine style. In the meantime, every day you spend in Omaha, Nebraska instead of the Valley is probably costing you money. And, of course, there are tornadoes, which they don't have in California.
I doubt you can afford the houses that get really punished by the mudslides, I don't think they have floods in San Jose (Sacramento, maybe), and the volcanoes (volcanoes?!) are a thousand miles to the north.
- Tichy 19y agoVery interesting, thanks. I just mentioned volcanoes as another example for hazardous environments that people still voluntarily live in.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoSomehow those volcanoes just arrived in this conversation out of the blue. I figured they were just an example, but I was slightly worried that your knowledge of California might be derived entirely from Hollywood. ;) The good thing about volcanoes is that you do get a certain amount of warning, these days, before the big one comes. Earthquakes continue to defeat the geologists, though.