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Thread #97018 Message #1903964
Posted By: Don Firth
08-Dec-06 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: What's This- London Tornado?
Subject: RE: BS: What's This- London Tornado?
Damn! It's a dangerous flamin' world out there!
I live in a seismically active area (on the so-called Pacific "ring of fire"). And I've hung on tight during a number of earthquakes. The last one, the Nisqually quake on February 28, 2001, magnitude 6.8, was a doozy! It lasted for about 45 seconds and I thought the whole apartment building was going to wind up in my lap (" Oh, this is gonna hurt!"). People keep talking about The Big One. "We're overdue." I keep thinking about the possibility of going to live someplace else.
I like this area and I like living near bodies of water, but after seeing "Jaws" a couple of decades ago, I thought Kansas might be a nice place to live. And then about eleventy-fourteen tornadoes Mix-Mastered their way across the state, and I figured. "Well, maybe I better stay put."
Barbara and I watch "Masterpiece Theatre" and "Mystery" on PBS a lot, and they show a lot of British television productions. I guess you could say we're both a couple of Anglophiles, and when Bush was elected, Blair notwithstanding, I thought England might be a nice place to live.