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nakymaton:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 04, 2006, 09:46:25 am ---Yes. And here is my Golden Rule: There is no such thing as "too much ice." (Part Two of that one is There is nothing worse when you're sweating like a stuck pig than warm beer.)
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;D ;D
The funny thing is, I was reading Leslie's response and thinking about the biggest disaster I ever saw in Vermont, which was an ice storm in... 1997, maybe? Power was out for a week at my house. Longer in northernmost New York state. That? That was "too much ice." Or maybe ice in the wrong places. Ice in the freezer is better than ice on the trees.
Portland, Oregon is sandwiched between the subduction zone (earthquakes like the one that caused the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, potentially... bad, bad news) and Mt Hood (which hasn't erupted historically, but if it used to be a volcano and looks like a cone, you can assume it ain't dead yet). Plus the Willamette River can flood the downtown area. (I think that's the river that enters the Columbia there...) I don't know what the risk from smaller earthquakes is -- I don't know what's known about smaller faults. But between a subduction zone and a volcano, there's a good chance that there are unmapped faults in the neighborhood.
(I, ummm, talk about this stuff for a living. Tell me to shut up if I go on too long... I know I can.)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on June 04, 2006, 11:39:43 pm ---;D ;D
The funny thing is, I was reading Leslie's response and thinking about the biggest disaster I ever saw in Vermont, which was an ice storm in... 1997, maybe? Power was out for a week at my house. Longer in northernmost New York state. That? That was "too much ice." Or maybe ice in the wrong places. Ice in the freezer is better than ice on the trees.
Portland, Oregon is sandwiched between the subduction zone (earthquakes like the one that caused the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, potentially... bad, bad news) and Mt Hood (which hasn't erupted historically, but if it used to be a volcano and looks like a cone, you can assume it ain't dead yet). Plus the Willamette River can flood the downtown area. (I think that's the river that enters the Columbia there...) I don't know what the risk from smaller earthquakes is -- I don't know what's known about smaller faults. But between a subduction zone and a volcano, there's a good chance that there are unmapped faults in the neighborhood.
(I, ummm, talk about this stuff for a living. Tell me to shut up if I go on too long... I know I can.)
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Just saw a Discovery Channel special on the area 'American's Tsunami' or something like that. The scientists examined coring samples, hoping to find evidence of a series of small earthquakes, meaning the subduction area would be releasing its pressure in a lot of little earthquakes instead of one big one, but unfortunately they found nothing but evidence of HUGE earthquakes and nothing in between. It's not looking good for the people in the far Northwest of the US...
vkm91941:
The South-eastern seaboard can keep it's hurricanes, the midwest it's Tornados amd the north it's blizzards....Give me my Earthquakes anyday! 8)
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on June 04, 2006, 11:39:43 pm ---;D ;D
The funny thing is, I was reading Leslie's response and thinking about the biggest disaster I ever saw in Vermont, which was an ice storm in... 1997, maybe? Power was out for a week at my house. Longer in northernmost New York state. That? That was "too much ice." Or maybe ice in the wrong places. Ice in the freezer is better than ice on the trees.
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If it the same ice storm we had in Maine, it was 1998.
That was a disaster. I knew people who were without power for 3 weeks. We were very lucky at my house--five hours. That was it.
It was a disaster but the emergency response was amazing (unlike the debacle we saw down south last September). Memory fades now but I remember that everything was coordinated and well organized, people were pitching it to help each other. It was an interesting experience to live through.
L
Jeff Wrangler:
We have mandatory snowstorm preparedness in Pennsylvania.
At the slightest hint that it might snow, everyone must run out and purchase:
1) Eggs
2) Milk
3) Bread
Why these three items, you ask? Because it is mandatory that when it snows in Pennsylvania, everyone must make French toast. ;D
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