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[*] posted on 11-12-2013 at 03:22 PM
Isn't there a large fault just offshore from Seattle....


.. that will cause a giant tsunami when it lets go? & take out the city? Hmmm... better stay on the Spokane side of the mtns...

And then there's that island, in the Azores or Canary's, that's splitting in two. when the West part goes in the tsunami is supposed to wash away most of the East coast.

Too darn much Discovery channel.... Where's the XX, anyway?

Neil

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[*] posted on 11-12-2013 at 03:59 PM


A tropical storm really screwed up southern California in 1938 (?). Who the hell knows what has hit this peninsula over the centuries? The Percibu Indians did not exactly have a Weather Channel. They and other aborigine couldn't even record events. Somehow I have the feeling that a massive category 5 storm has an infinitely greater chance of happening than a cataclysmic earthquake within the remainder of my lifetime.

It isn't really reassuring when a Mexican president raises taxes, then has the gall to ask for donations to counter the damage of a hurricane. What I'm saying is Baja California Sur (except for the capes) is pretty low priority on the pecking order if a big one ever struck. What gobernacion did for Cancun proves that. No expense was spared to reconstruct turista Quintana Roo after a devastating hurricane hit, but Acapulco Guerrero sucked hind ---- in this year's disaster.

At home during hurricane season I stock up on weeks and weeks worth of food and the water will last me a month if necessary. But here in this arid desolation, that isn't possible. A very vulnerable position for me. In the Philippines, most rural folks live near their garden and rice paddy. Rice paddies need lots of water available. A certain disaster area with lots of rain. Where a level area for growing rice is scarce, villagers live on or near a steep slope.

A bad hurricane would remove a roadway. Not just the asphalt, the base, and everything. Docks and piers would be removed. Foodstocks in the capes would last a week or so (hoarding), then it would be a zoo. How many people down there now? 300,000? Including La Paz...

This isn't some futuristic prognosis for possible effects of an asteroid strike, an eruption of an undiscovered volcano or one in a million earthquake. With the rapidly changing weather patterns, sea surface temperatures can rise to 30C and that means an inevitable food source and path for a real ------- of a hurricane.




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