Safest place to live in North Amereica

[Ken Talbot]

Ah, Sip, you forgot about the tornados!

[Special Ed]

Thank yew Ken, or who ever, for taking care of the techno glitch!
Very interesting responses my brotherrs of XS. I shall have to send a PM to Maximan to get his response. He may be busy getting ready for the Tahoe Rally. Pitty, I won't be makeing it this year. On top of having to move unexpectantly, SWMBO was involved in an auto accident Sunday. She will be O.K., but the car is totleled, and "we" will be held liabel. Ah, the joyes of matrimony!
E.Liberty

[MAXIMAN]

Ed

First off I unless you are bumping 70 I don't think you are anywhere near old enough to be my father. I'm 47...but thanks for seeing me young!

From a asteriod strike stadpoint I suppose that's a crap shoot. It could hit anywhere and if it's big enough it wouldn't mtter where you lived.

Earthquakes...shakes and shakes...Ed I've bee telling you for years to get the hell out of the Bay Area! But don't move to NW Arkansas. The next time the New Madrid fault goes off it will likely shift the flow of the Mississippi throughthe panhandle of Florida!

Tornadoes in Oklahoma...hurricanes in Florida and the eastern seaboard...looks like your screwed Ed. No place is a lead pipe cinch. Hell some lady got run over by a car here two days so nowhere's SAFE!

Global warming is such a bore. It doesn't surprise me that the alarmists of the politically motivated left have cranked out some crap about it being the end all be all of mega-disasters. (snore)

I have spoken with you at length regardng this subject ...suffice it to say global warming and cooling cycles have bee a part of the planet for 500+ MILLION years that we know of.

WE ARE STILL in an ice age geologically speaking and are NOWHERE near the temperature the earth has been in the past. We are indeed getting warmer...SO WHAT!!! We've been getting warmer since the end of the last glacial encroachment 25,000 years ago.

Of course geologist have known this for at least hundred years. But Al Gore just found out about yesterday morning and is running around like Chicken Little screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING!!!"

So Ed if you are concerned about global warming....DON'T BE. Not only will it never affect you...I won't even affect(significanlty) your grandchildren no GREAT grandchildren.

As a matter of fact there are some studies about to be released on the horizon that indicate the earth is headed back into a "cooling cycle".

I predict Global Warming will become the proverbial Dead Horse within a few years....but I'm sure the kooks like Uncle Al will go to their graves beating it...........yawn.....

Too bad you won't be a Tahoe. I certainly wanted to see you bro! We'll be in the San Jose area Sunday afternoon...maybe you could meet there and say hi? Talk to Ray...he's our guide from Tahoe to Newport.

Later Ed

Cody

[mro]

We'll be in the San Jose area Sunday afternoon...???

Have not looked at the Tahoe Rally post for a while.
Last week and this one I've been finding a new home for several tons of stuff left in my shop. Have it rented and will have but a small amount of space for the XSes.

September third is a special day for me and have things to do, but the 2nd has yet to get filled.
Should be able to meet y'all in San Jose.


mro

[MAXIMAN]

Mike

I assume we'll be in the San Jose area. That's Ray's call ...he's leading the pack from Tahoe to Newport.

I hope we see ya there!

[DiverRay]

Mike,
I was originally going to cross the Bay Bridge. That is out, as it's closed for the three day weekend! I am now thinking of riding over 580 to 680, down to 280 and up to the City that way. Give me a call on my cell Sunday morning, and we can try to find a place to hook up!
831-234-8721

[mro]

Can cut off over an hour of freeway riding going to the city.
Use San Mateo bridge (HY 92)
Just happens to be in Hayward too

580 to 238, then 880 south to HY 92 San Mateo bridge.
On the peninsela 92 will cross both 101 and 280.

If traffic bad or you want to stop for a break...
exit Castro Valley Blvd (580 in Castro Valley), left at light, left at next light (Grove Way), left next light (Center St) which at next light you bear right onto B St, Couple lights down left on Foothill Blvd, fourth light bear right on to 92 (Jackson St) which will take you to the bridge.

Depending on when you will be in the area...I could meet you guys in Pleasonton/Livermore area and ride a ways with you.


mro

[Special Ed]

Maximan, my… cousin?
Actually, in some cultures an age difference of a mer 14 years could easily place me in a “generation” above you!
Anyway, screw “Global Warming:” it was only a passing comment. I know we are of a like mind on the matter. I am mostly interested is your professional perspective as to where is the safest place to be in the event of a global, or even a continental natural calamity.
I know the Mississippi River valley is out: as is anywhere near Yellow Stone, or below at least 1000-ft elevation.
But really, forget climate, forget astronomy, but just in terms of geology, where is the most stable ground in North America? I know it isn’t here. Central Canada? New Mexico? And when did Australia become a part of The North American Continintal? Did I miss something? I know I’m hard of hearing, but...
E.Liberty

[xs650mike]

Edgar Cayce favored Virginia Beach as the safest place to live...guess he wasn't a-feared of hurricanes. Someone mentioned B.C. Canada. It's on the "ring of fire", don't suppose it qualifies. My relatives in Ohio always wondered why we lived in California... "you 'uns got all them earthquakes". Well Uncle Fred's barn was wrecked by a tornado. (his house was fine, it was half underground due to tornado hazard.) Uncle Ed's house got wrecked by a tornado. Meanwhile we were living in L.A. which is known as "Shaky City" to its residents and never had a problem even with all the shaking. Since then I've lived in San Fran. which doesn't even begin to shake like L.A. and now I live in Lake County which sits 4.5 miles above the largest known pool of surface magma on the planet. I've only felt 2 earthquakes in a dozen years even though there are supposedly dozens of quakes every day. I'll take earthquakes over tornadoes and hurricanes anytime. For one thing they're over in seconds and usually don't even cause your beer to foam. Now if we Californians could only avoid those damned wildfires!