Nobody was listening.

When you einstein's figure out a way to avoid all and every catastrophe that finds it's way through the human existence, please be sure and let us know the way.

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G Henslee
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So, there may be some you'd like to experience?

No shit... Well at least you're not advocating compiling an arsenal of weapons, water and toilet paper and moving into a hole somewhere in Idaho as many did for the 2K scare. Or did you? '-)

Reply to
G Henslee

I'm only speaking for what I know about, but the rules out living in the eastern US.  

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Staying away from earthquake faults rules out living in the eastern U.S.?????

Reply to
tomkanpa

Malibu.

Reply to
G Henslee

The Watcher wrote: ....

And, of course, don't build ports and ancillary supporting infrastructure and industry heavily reliant on such facilities near those areas either...

Reply to
Duane Bozarth

I'm only speaking for what I know about, but the rules out living in the eastern US.

Reply to
Ann

There are probably many people that would have loved to move away from NO or southern Louisiana; a lot of them probably knew that the possibility of disaster was there.

But most poor people don't have a choice of where to live.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.

But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however-the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.

The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level-more than eight feet below in places-so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.

Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't-yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.

Reply to
stevie

Except the type of shipping supplying the Gulf Coast oil refineries can't make it up the St Lawrence...

I actually was meaning the assertion mostly in sarcastic vein...implying that having ports for ocean-going vessels anywhere near the ocean was obviously poor planning.

Reply to
Duane Bozarth

The government welfare system could have stopped paying them to live there. People go where the money is.

Reply to
gfretwell

What I was replying to was: "....Don't live in an OBVIOUS flood-prone area(especially one that experiences hurricanes). Stay away from earthquake faults. ..."

Of course I was mainly thinking of hurricanes, but there sure are faults in the eastern US. I experienced a small earthquake when I was living in DE.

Reply to
Ann

Martha's Vinyard or Nantucket. Teddy and John should be able to take a bunch.

Reply to
keith

Why worry? If you believe in God everything will take care of itself. Pray, pray and everything will be back to normal.

Jesus will be coming soon and the world will end. We all will go to heaven.

Reply to
Dave Jefford

Boy, you are smart! Money, money that's what everyone should be thinking.

Reply to
Dave Jefford

Heaven, God is waiting for you.

Reply to
Dave Jefford

Well, except for the New Madrid (Memphis area) most are small and relatively inactive, but there are certainly faultlines in the eastern US.

Reply to
Duane Bozarth

New Orleans doesn't flood "with regularity" either.

I'm not saying that the New England states are a hot bed of tropical storms, but snow runoff can cause flooding too. And NH's earthquake history does include some serious ones.

New Hampshire Department of Safety

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1978 another great blizzard hit New England.  The Blizzard of '78 dumped 24 to 38 inches of the white stuff immobilizing the infrastructure and blocking major interstate highways.  Thousands of motorists abandoned their automobiles on the highways and in some areas upwards of 2 weeks were required to clear the snow. More recent blizzards and snowstorms occurred in March of 1993 and February of 1996. These events killed scores of people, caused millions of dollars in damage and left thousands of people without power for days."
Reply to
Ann

Why worry? If you believe in God everything will take care of itself. Pray, pray and everything will be back to normal.

Jesus will be coming soon and the world will end. We all will go to heaven.

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I knew someone, from somewhere, sooner or later would post this bullshit. Hey, if you want to go with jesus to get your 72 virgins then I'm sure there are some who post on this site can tell you what plants to consume. Arrrrrrrrgh! I'm coming jesus! This is the big one! get my 72 virgins lined up.

Reply to
tomkanpa

This was published in National Geographic in October of 2004. The full text of the article is available at

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--------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday. But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however?the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party. The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level?more than eight feet below in places?so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it. Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't?yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.

Reply to
Larry Caldwell

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:32:39 GMT, Tony Hwang wrote Re Re: Nobody was listening.:

Sounds like a great place to send the refugees from N.O.

Reply to
Vic Dura

If you stand in the middle of a highway long enough sooner or later you will be hit by a car and it will serve you right.

Reply to
Rich

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