8 Jun
2001
8 Jun
'01
10:07 p.m.
If you did have tornadoes and earthquakes you'd probably have a bad weather
tax too :-) Want some fun weather? Go to Iceland around late December when
the south winds bring up warm air into subzero hard frozen weather and an
effect similar to a hurricane occurs, only with driving rains and high winds
on top of hard packed frozen snow and ice. Makes for an interesting couple
days.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Peter Joules
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:06 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Talking 'bout shakin & quakin
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, you wrote:
IIRC, the largest US quake (of which we have
reliable evidence) in the
last 150 years was on the New Madrid fault in (I think) Tennessee, which
changed the course of the Ohio River. It was approaching a 9.0 R.
So California can not claim to have *all* the fun.
You Americans get all the fun... Here in the UK I have only
experienced one
earthquake, big by our stanadrds, of about 3 R, it felt like a
particularly
heavy truck going past. We never have any _decent_ tornadoes,
just whirwinds
which knock over a few trees. We haven't got any volcanoes, and decent
thunderstorms are few and far between.
The closest I get to the wild side of nature is to watch it on TV :(.
I must point out so as not to cause offence that I accept that
these things
cause tragedy for many people, and should probably not be
perceived as fun.
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Regards
Pete