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| In article <11sbfgb4tm05ade@corp.supernews.com>, waterspider@moonlight.net
(Waterspider) wrote:
> Hi Alan,
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> Thanks for the info and the links. I'm surprised this wasn't on the news, or
> at least the weather which, btw, has been highly untypical in this area for
> the past several months; perhaps the northern volcanic activity has
> something to do with this.
The only news I can find carrying it is here:
http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_3392670
But the AVO have had a special page for about a month:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Augustine.php
There's another erupted at the south pole as well:
http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=7037
I'm wondering if the earth will now act like when you let go of a balloon and it
flies all round the room ;-)
Yaknow what really bugs me? The thought that Mr Tanner will be able to go and
take some cool photos :-)
> Pender Harbour is a relatively safe place to live in terms of natural
> disasters (nothing to do with my choosing to move here, just a happy
> coincidence). We're well sheltered from tsunamis by Vancouver Island and a
> number of smaller islands between that and here and I don't have waterfront
> property, which is also a bonus at tax time. The Caren Range is next to my
> back yard and easily accessible if something did happen (like a major quake
> two miles offshore), but it's not high or steep enough to be a landslide
> risk. Our tallest building is only two stories and we have no bridges of any
> importance. From the old days (about five years ago, haha) when the power
> would regularly go out for up to two weeks in winter wind storms, most of us
> keep a good stock of emergency supplies. Of course a natural disaster would
> likely cut us off completely from the rest of the mainland, but methinks
> that might be a good thing!
So really, anybody with an expert knowledge of power systems could make a good
living there?
Alan
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/enigma.html
http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/
http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html
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