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Re: FormerStudentIntern.
Hopefully, no more hurricanes any time soon.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:25 AM
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Re: BC-A,
In time, all will settle out again.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:25 AM
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Re: Pat,
Some people don't want to acknowledge that the world's climate is shifting, but that doesn't stop the results of it, including a lot of weather that no longer fits the models we have come to expect in certain areas.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:21 AM
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Re: JimmyA,
In this case, it was fire that removed a lot of trees, and baked the earth so the water runs off.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:18 AM
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Re: Kabu,
You call it Paradise because we have so few mosquitoes? I have to admit, I have seen 3 this summer.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM
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Re: Adnohr,
I admit I am not prepared for a meteorite striking in my yard, or house. But neither am I truly ready for earthquake, which could happen here. I don't have 3 days of water jugged up, though I do have three days of food in the pantry. I have not nailed bookcases to the wall.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:15 AM
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Re: CCT,
Yes, people know it will happen, but refuse to believe it will happen to them. They play the odds--it isn't likely to happen today... tomorrow... next week... while I live here... Then, suddenly, it does.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:09 AM
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Re: Naut
The numbers have come down considerably, on the 'Unaccounted-for' list, from 1200 to now, 200. There are 6 known dead, and two more presumed so. Flood damage is horrendous, going across the plains all the way to the Nebraska border, I'm reading.
You're lucky now... but wait until Yellowstone blows.
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2013 at 11:04 AM
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Ciel
I saw some of the devastation - it was terrible, and I was shocked at the high number of people that lost their lives. For some reason we here in the Great Lakes region seem to be almost impervious to major natural disasters - no Earthquakes, no volcanoes, no huge fires, only occasional minor floods, and the last real hurricane occurred in 1954...One almost feels guilty...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM
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It is strange folk know it will happen sometime or eventually,
I suppose it is a job to sell one's house and move on, if one lives in a disaster area.
Perhaps the hope is that it will never happen. People get flooded here, I know it is not so bad , but it is pretty miserable to have possessions seeped in mud and sewage .
posted by
C_C_T
on September 18, 2013 at 11:02 AM
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And then there are the things you would never think to prepare for, such as the train exploding and demolishing a town. Or a random shooting killing a number of people. It's getting a little crazy, and not just Nature.
posted by
adnohr
on September 17, 2013 at 7:54 PM
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sometimes there is a payment it seems for living in what appears from the photos you take to be a pardise on earth. 
posted by
Kabu
on September 17, 2013 at 6:45 PM
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I'm glad we don't have forest fires here in missouri...we do have forests...we have lots of flooding usually in the spring and maybe summer from all the snow melting combined with heavy rains
posted by
Annicita
on September 17, 2013 at 5:02 PM
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Sometimes it's hard to believe how devastating Mother Nature has been lately. From certain things I've read, part of the problem in some of these areas could be the removal of a few of the larger trees, which act as a natural wall or deterrent to mudslides and other massive flows of water. People don't realize the affects of removing these trees until well after the fact. I'm not saying that's the exact cause of these floods and mudslides, but something tells me, if there were more trees in these areas . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on September 17, 2013 at 1:47 PM
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When something looks as solid as Rainier it's easy to forget
St. Helens blew less than 35 years ago. Lately it seems there's been one disaster after another, hardly time to catch a breath between one and the next.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 17, 2013 at 12:24 PM
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Ciel
Rocky Mountain Hope love. BC-A, Bill's R
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posted by
BC-A
on September 17, 2013 at 12:21 PM
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Reading this reminds me how fortunate I have been when it comes to the weather.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM
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