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   From: hatuunen@cox.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:03:27 -0700, "Mimi"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Hatunen"  wrote in message   
   >news:dc7j32hj8aqisd59k970206q2qm831si53@4ax.com...   
   >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:39:56 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Your map shows the line for cold as much too far north.  It shows the   
   >>>line for hurricanes as much too coastal.  Your earthquake area should   
   >>>show almost all of the US except for a bit of coastal TX and part of   
   >>>FLA.  You left out Tsunamis, sink holes, & volcanos.   
   >>>   
   >>>Basically your best bet is to die young.   
   >>   
   >> Some places are both hot and cold. When I lived in Richland,   
   >> Washington, the winters could be bitterly cold, but it got up to   
   >> the likes of 113F in the summer.   
   >   
   >Bitterly cold? Well, maybe relative to Tucson, but not to other parts of the   
   >US.   
      
   You know, I used to be a landed immigrant in Montreal, and I've   
   lived in upstate New York and in Kansas for typical plains   
   blizzards so I have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about. it   
   can get bitterly cold in the Tri-Cities area. One week we had   
   very cold and about two feet of snow (but then one morning about   
   three am a chinook hit; remarkable if you've not experiencee   
   one).   
      
   >I think the OP eliminated Washington state for extreme cold, not realizing   
   >how much warmer it is west of the Cascades. But, of course, we're   
   >disqualified because of earthquakes.   
      
   Surely cold winter drizzle counts.   
      
   >When I lived in LA, it wasn't only the earthquakes. There were also grass   
   >fires and landslides. For all the picture of idyllic weather there, lots of   
   >(natural) bad stuff can happen.   
   >   
   >To the OP, regarding wood houses. They're the best thing in an earthquake.   
   >Bricks and stones, if not reinforced properly, shake apart. Stick-built   
   >houses are lightweight and nailed together in a semi-rigid framework; they   
   >withstand quakes quite well. 2 caveats: the wood house must be bolted to its   
   >foundation or it just slides off. And all too often your house does fine,   
   >but the brick chimney falls over on the house.   
   >   
   >Marianne (in Seattle)   
      
   Don't forget the inevitablility of a repeat of the year 1700   
   major subduction zone earthquake in the Pacific Northwest and its   
   subsequent tsunami (very similr to the Indian ocean event last   
   year). And the possibility of lahars from Mt Rainier. And falling   
   ash; Mt St Helens ruined my VW's engine, and we were on the edge   
   of the ash fallout.   
      
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