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Cleita

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8. We are living our lives like it will never happen. All this ocean oil

Reply to Warpy (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 14, 2015, 08:21 PM

Jul 2015

drilling and keeping nuclear power plants operating that are past the age the were built to last, fracking and now attempts by the oil companies to bring in Alberta tar sands on oil bomb trains through the western states. One good earthquake in a land that is known for earthquakes could ruin this land worse than just what ma nature alone would do.

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Full Margin Rupture [View all] phantom power Jul 2015 OP

I'm in Portland Trajan Jul 2015 #1

Preparing to survive for a month or so in a disaster zone seems advisable. phantom power Jul 2015 #4

I don't trust any news about the west coast falling into the ocean Lordquinton Jul 2015 #2

Technically, the news is coming from a paleo-seismologist at Oregon State phantom power Jul 2015 #3

You should pay attention to land falling into the ocean due to a M9+ quake. Cleita Jul 2015 #5

A school friend who moved there sent me pics from Anchorage Warpy Jul 2015 #7

We are living our lives like it will never happen. All this ocean oil Cleita Jul 2015 #8

I was making a joke about the source Lordquinton Jul 2015 #9

Okay. Cleita Jul 2015 #10

When you mentioned the anchorage quake Lordquinton Jul 2015 #11

Yes and it was pretty scary, but it didn't do a lot of damage. Cleita Jul 2015 #14

That's what happened to my pants once, when I went bowling shenmue Jul 2015 #6

Right, I had one of those. A favorite pair of pants, too. nilram Jul 2015 #12

Hee hee shenmue Jul 2015 #13