tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post3202777893808811884..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Life in the danger zoneGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-56791737188608023212012-08-08T16:20:24.114-07:002012-08-08T16:20:24.114-07:00Northern California valley, here. Loma Prieta Eart...Northern California valley, here. Loma Prieta Earthquake of '89. Driving home at the end of our day, my father in the driver's seat... <br />"We just had an Earthquake!"<br />"Really?!?!" I said. (Still surprised he could feel it and know what it was while being in a moving vehicle)<br /><br />We were 4 blocks from home. We get home, everything looks normal on the outside. We go inside, the chandeliers are swaying so hard they're hitting the ceiling and our swimming pool is tossing all of it's water out as if it was being tipped 45degrees back and forth.<br /><br />We lived roughly 150-200 miles from the epicenter. Apart from the aforementioned antics, there was no property damage and we were safe.<br /><br />My advice? Don't live IN San Fransisco, or the greater L.A. region, and you'll be fine. Just live a bit further inland.<br /><br />The only issue we have of significance is flooding (within the valley) but that is very infrequent and localized to specific areas that are easily avoidable.<br /><br /><br />You are also correct. I can go to the desert, the beach, or the forest on a tank of gas (or less) and my garden flourishes with little intervention on my behalf. <br /><br />Winter lows are around 30 degrees, summer highs are 105 degrees. It gets hot in the summer but we really get a noticeable progression through the seasons.<br /><br /><br />So to give summation for all this horn-tooting...<br />Yes, it is as nice of a place to live as your imagination has perceived it. :DHontseur Thotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799765178908406877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-27453154097169609942012-08-04T06:00:17.578-07:002012-08-04T06:00:17.578-07:00There was a family in St. Martinville, where I gre...There was a family in St. Martinville, where I grew up, who would sit out on their porch to appreciate hurricanes. I always expected the whole row of them to get decapitated by a sheet of corrugated roofing tin, but as far as I know this never occurred.<br /><br />It's probably a mistake to live on something that's too large to easily move out of the way of oncoming asteroids.Tyler Torkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460706772136362593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-1945226684217149762012-08-04T05:27:07.198-07:002012-08-04T05:27:07.198-07:00I remember Hurrican Allen. It was my first hurrica...I remember Hurrican Allen. It was my first hurricane where I was old enough to really understand the devastation. It was also my first hurricane party. It seemed so strange to me that folks would want to party and get drunk before a huge storm arrived. It never occurred to me that we could be without electricity and phones for a week or more... in the hot muggy summer.Alex Sollahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12222528761667893874noreply@blogger.com