Fires, Floods, Famine, etc.....

[Dealey Joe]

maybe the spending will slow a bit if the bastards are not at work

[Pennyworth]

Chile 8.8 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 043980.ece

[Bob]

Stay safe Seamus...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/ar ... d=10629045

[Pennyworth]

Pennyworth wrote:Chile 8.8 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 0.eceJAPAN 7.3 http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/ ... 0022738419

[Pennyworth]

Hot Ice.....Iceland is built on a volcanic rock on the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and it has grown used to eruptions. The southern village of Vik, close to the current eruption, has for centuries had an escape plan in which everybody runs up to the church, which is built on high ground. They know that if Katla erupts flooding will follow. The island's worst eruption in modern times was in 1783, when the Laki volcano blew its top. The lava shot to heights of 1.4 kilometres and more than 120 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide was released into the atmosphere. A quarter of the island's population died in the resulting famine and it transformed the world, creating Britain's notorious "sand summer", casting a toxic cloud over Prague, playing havoc with harvests in France — sometimes seen as a contributory factor in the French Revolution — and changing the climate so dramatically that New Jersey recorded its largest snowfall and Egypt one of its most enduring droughts. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 070239.ece

[JDThomas]

An outsider, but one to watch:http://www.pnsn.org/RAINIER/rainrec_eqs.htmlWhen this mother properly wakes up, please remember to remove Seattle from your Atlas and Microsoft from the stock exchange listing!The most recent recorded volcanic eruption was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in 1858, 1870, 1879, 1882 and 1894 as well. Although Rainier is an active volcano, as of 2009 there is no evidence of an imminent eruption. However, an eruption could be devastating for all areas surrounding the volcano.Lahars from Rainier pose the most risk to life and property, as many communities lie atop older lahar deposits. Not only is there much ice atop the volcano, the volcano is also slowly being weakened by hydrothermal activity. According to Geoff Clayton, a geologist with RH2, a repeat of the Osceola mudflow would destroy Enumclaw, Orting, Kent, Auburn, and most or all of Renton. Such a mudflow might also reach down the Duwamish estuary and destroy parts of downtown Seattle, and cause tsunamis in Puget Sound and Lake Washington. According to USGS, about 150,000 people live on top of old lahar deposits of Rainier. Rainier is also capable of producing pyroclastic flows as well as lava.

[Dealey Joe]

what would a Tsunami do to Florida?Bob you better get the hell outa there

[Pennyworth]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... ?track=rss

[Bob]

I just read the other day that Florida is experiencing it's coldest winter since the 19th century.

[Dealey Joe]

Bob wrote:I just read the other day that Florida is experiencing it's coldest winter since the 19th century. Sir Bob you should be aware that it is "Global Warming" that is directly responsible for that.