So, all 8 people that take Amtrak had to wait for a short while?

The question of the hour is: What's Obama going to do about it?

Tall Paul wrote:

Pussies. I wouldn't even pause speaking for a 5.8

I literally didn't pause, but everyone else was evacuating...huge overreaction to be honest.

You were in Ferndale for the Parade?  We were living in Eureka in old town at that point.  Now that was an earthquake...

It's more than what you are accustomed to.  Building in the East were not built with earthquakes in mind.  The geological makeup of the regions is completely different.  The faults on the West coast are more likely to "shake", where the faults on the East coast (there are lots of them) are more likely to "pop", with follow on tremors.

It's been said for years that when the New Madrid fault goes, it will top anything seen on the West coast since we settled this continent.

Unfortunately, it didn't manage to level DC.

I lost one good crystal glass to the earthquake.   I am saddened.

My cat, however, thought it was the end of the world.

Curiously, for all the earthquake-prone areas in which I've lived over the years such as Alaska and California, I've managed to avoid all the big shakes. Plenty of tremors, mind you, and some of them quite notable but that's it. when I lived in Vermont in the late 80s, we were hit by a Quebec-centered quake but I was in Toronto at the time and didn't feel it. Even growing up in Arkansas, I always managed to be several miles from whatever tornado happened to blow through.

I suppose as soon as I hit the submit button for this posting, the Big One's gonna break.

Roger_That wrote:

I lost one good crystal glass to the earthquake.   I am saddened.

My cat, however, thought it was the end of the world.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

The question of the hour is: What's Obama going to do about it?

What do you mean??  Obviously (according to the republicans) Obama caused it.


Speaking of the Repubs, they must have shit a brick today when the CBO revised the deficit numbers downward and posted a somewhat rosy economic outlook.

Fled wrote:

XregnaR wrote:

Unfortunately, it didn't manage to level DC.

Exactly what do you imagine DC to be, and who do you think lives there (as you wish them ill)?  The metaphor, which I suppose it to be, is tired and a bit overused. 

Sometimes people seem to loathe what they covet.

Anyway, the pols are all out on vacation, begging for donations and avoiding their constituents.

GooberMcNutly wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Speaking of the Repubs, they must have shit a brick today when the CBO revised the deficit numbers downward and posted a somewhat rosy economic outlook.

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Exactly!!  The CBO?  Nigga please!  Bullshit in, bullshit out.

I have spent time in DC lobbying for the small hydroelectric power industry.  The town is an embarrassment to the people of this country.  The curbs are tipping into the streets and the sidewalks are all cracked, a testiment to the corrupt district government.  Tony Soprano could have provided better construction work.  The government offices are staffed by overweight black women watching Oprah on the personal TVs at their desks (seriously).  Appointments to see legislators are attended not by the elected official, but a twenty something staffer who, although intelligent, is clueless about your concerns and issues.  The  legislators are off to one party or another almost every night.  The whole "world power government" image is a sham.

It's not difficult to come away with the conviction that concentrating power in this cesspool is insane.

I did an image search for welfare wombats, and the image below was the best one that came up of the very few available.

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Anybody with a pulse could graduate from DC high schools.

And when you have driven across the same double-stacked steel road repair plate for 3 years, you lose a bit of your faith in the public works department. And, as Phred has mentioned, I would rather have a bowling ball dropped on my tongue than have to interact with the local government.

But DC is really two cities: Federal city and Chocolate City. If your address ends in "NW" then you live a life of rose scented farts while dining out of the largess of your state's coffers and deep pockets of your favorite campaign donors or you suckle the teat of a rich government contract as you study the efficacy of sub Saharan agriculture from your air conditioned NGO headquarters. If you live in the other 3/4 of the city you drag your weighty ass back and forth to the departments of welfare, housing, bus pass, food bank and free clinic. Every now and then you bitch about not being a state.

But they have the best mix of ethnic food of any city I have been in. Other cities may do one or two types of ethnic better, but DC does them all, from Afghani to Zimbabwean, you can eat in a different country every night for a year. And it's the birth of Go Go, enough said.

I lived in and around DC for more than 20 years and love the city like a retarded brother who never really learned to bathe all that well.

Geothermal is about the only zero impact alternative energy. If only the whole country was perched on an unstable volcanic rift, wracked with earthquakes and burnt out landscapes like Iceland, we would have plenty of cheap energy...

But I think that wind could become a big player if it's put in the right places and the transmission costs can come down. But I don't want to keep subsidizing it as a taxpayer or the manufacturers will never feel the pressure to make the necessary improvements to make it cost effective.

Goober wrote:

But I think that wind could become a big player if it's put in the right places and the transmission costs can come down.

Wind works well, when it's blowing at the right speed.  Unfortunately, it is not reliable.  Solar is a bit more reliable, but the sun only shines bright enough during a few hours of the day and you can't store the electrons for use later.  And some days it doesn't shine at all.  Therefore, we must build gas or coal fired plants as back up.  It's like having to buy a reliable car that you keep in the garage because the one you want to drive doesn't run most of the time.  Well, if you're smart, you shit can the clunker and drive the reliable one.

choad wrote:

How dumb are we? Rhetorical question.

Answer it, though, and you get a bonus prize for your 2,000th post. Your total stands at 1,999.

See, the politicians from the Left and Right do work together on projects

XregnaR wrote:

I'm interested in personal nuclear power.  Got any literature on that?

If you've got $25 million (not including regulatory fees)...