Posted on 05/22/2008 2:27:21 PM PDT by blam
Actually a slightly smaller quake on any of a wide variety of faults closer or under LA would be even worse.
I’ve got loads of 2 litre bottles of drinking water left over from the Y2K scare.
I hope geologists are not using the same computer simulations that the global warmers use. Government studies often show up before next fiscal year budget requests are produced.
Not to say that big, bad earthquakes can’t happen, especially on the west coast, but it just seem curious that the study is released a week after a big China EQ.
I also noticed here in Washington, news of a large, slow subduction zone EQ was just released yesterday.
Studies like this take months.
People used to make fun of the “New Orleans submerged by hurricane” studies and warnings, too.
Oh goodie..../sarc
Better.
It wasn’t submerged by a hurricane.
These studies more likely took years.
Not making fun of the study. I've been through an earthquake or two myself, and they're not fun (well maybe the slow rollers can be interesting).
Timing the release of the study is another matter, though.
A heck of a lot of it was.
Katrina actually wasn’t the worst-case scenario. It can (and will) be worse, eventually.
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Some say the end is near.
Some say we’ll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
BS three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless f$#%ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any f$#%ing time. Any f$#%ing day.
Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona bay.
Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.
It’s a
BS three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Here in this hopeless f$#%ing hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any f$#%ing time. Any f$#%ing day.
Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in Arizona bay.
Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we’ll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cuz
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...
One great big festering neon distraction,
I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
Learn to swim.
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Mom is going to fix it all soon,
Mom is coming round to put it back
the way it oughtta be...
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F$#% all his clones.
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And I’m praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.
Time to bring it down again.
Don’t just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.
I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t
Welcome any change, my friend.
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suck it down.
flush it down.
Yup, a fact.
The local newspaper (Mobile Register) today had an article about the new dikes in NO unexpectedly leaking already.
Love that song.
They kinda missed Interstate 5 along with the California Aqueduct that parallels it from about Bakersfield to the San Fernando Valley. As you climb the grade (northbound) right by the Pyramid Lake you will cross the San Andreas. Cal Trans just spent millions redoing that section of roadway.
The chances of people paying more attention to an earthquake study increases about the same ratio as the strength of the earthquake that preceeds the release.
In the mid 90s I happened to visit the City of Los Angeles Fire Department Dispatch Center, and was allowed to look through various planning materials for The Big One, Nuclear Detonation, Tsunami, etc.
The one thing that stuck with me was the expected total collapse of most brick buildings south of Downtown Los Angeles, and the Mass Body Collection Points at Dodger Stadium, LA Coliseum, Inglewood Forum, etc.
At the time it was written, the scenario was that dead bodies would be dropped off and burned with a certain period of time, to prevent mass spread of disease etc.
Also, the only passable route with complete overpass failure is the 101 North to Santa Barbara, as people would presumably go up the off ramp, and down the onramp at every exit, etc....all the other paths would be blocked.
I think they are missing a zero on both numbers.
I lived in So Cal from 1964 to 1993. Went thru a couple of good quakes.
7.8 would kill more than 1800.
Dead bodies pose absolutely no disease threat whatsoever. Has been made abundantly clear by experts on the subject for some years now, it's interesting how the myth persists.
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