[SamAdams76]

I was using a bit of sarcasm to point out the absurdity of using exceptions to the rule.

We all know that 99% of abortions are done for "convenience" but you will have those who point to the one 13-year-old girl getting raped to justify abortion for all. You area obviously not one of them so sorry to cast the aspersion - though I really just wanted to make the analogy.

Same here with the tsunamis. It is almost a weekly Free Republic ritual to hear about some tsunami warning somewhere in the world. Yet so far, I have had two examples of actual tsunamis (over the past century) pointed out to me to justify the existence of hundreds of tsunami warnings that never actually came to be. Maybe there were a few more if somebody wants to go digging on the internet for them. And I'm not talking about tsunamis that wash up a few extra crabs on the beach but those that cause devastation.

Of course, we shall have our tsunami warning that come to nothing just as we have meteorologists excitedly pointing at possible East Coast snowstorms 20-25 times a year that might actually pan out once or twice. We had two pretty good ones this year but so far, about 15 missed us (with a few on the way for next week - we shall see)

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OK. Thanks for the clarification. Peace?

[caww]

Of all the natural disasters Tsunami’s are the most devastating Imo....if you're not warned they creep up deceptively as most people have not seen them personally nor understand the signs as they begin......thousands die as in the Boxer day Tsunami and the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.