[Company Man]

Insert pithy comment here~

[Darkwolf377]

Shows you how clueless the Brits are when commenting on our election or anything else from afar. This is the first I've heard of this story. From the excerpt you'd get the sense we're all panicking over here.

[xJones]

They wish, oh, how they wish!

[Death and Taxes]

If either the Canary Island tidal wave or the supervolcano at Yellwostone erupt, it would be devastating.

Of course, it would all be Bush's fault...

[marktwain]

Just weird.

As the Canaries are much closer to Britain than they are to the US, and about 20 times closer to the African coast, this "concern" seems a bit misplaced.

I thought the Europeans were supposed to know geography so much better than mere Americans!

[The Great RJ]

Gee didn't the Queen of England just tell us that global warming caused by the US will end all life on earth or similar such rubbish.

[UnklGene]

[Slicksadick]

Hawaii beats the heck outta the Canaries for historic giant landslides.

These landslides are among the largest on Earth, attaining lengths of 125 miles (200 km) and volumes of 1,200 cubic miles (5,000 cubic km). Moore and others (1989) identified two types of landslides: slumps and debris avalanches. Slumps moved on an overall slope >3¼, caused little disruption of the structural coherence of the volcano's flanks, and extended back to the volcanic rift zones and down to the base of the volcanic pile. Slumps may move slowly or surge abruptly forward several meters, causing large earthquakes. The 1868 and 1975 earthquakes, the largest of Hawaii's historic earthquakes, resulted from movement of the Hilina slump in south Hawaii.

[SunkenCiv]

Tidal Waves Kill More Than 700 in Asia
yahoo/AP ^ | 12-26-04 | LELY T. DJUHARI
Posted on 12/26/2004 1:18:45 AM PST by sully777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308542/posts

Tidal Waves Kill More Than 3,200 in Asia
(Update: Death toll now tops 11,500)
AP ^ | Sun, Dec 26, 2004
Posted on 12/26/2004 2:09:10 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308556/posts

Asian Tsunamis Surge Against East African Coast
Reuters ^ | Dec 26, 2004 12:11 PM ET | C. Bryson Hull
Posted on 12/26/2004 9:53:01 AM PST by sully777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1308649/posts