Why don't these people move?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I was reading about how 600,000 Chinese citizens have been evactuated near a town because of flooding, and how 13 million more are at risk, and how this happens every year, and a little while back 4000 people died, and I'm thinking, "Why don't these stupid fucking people move?"

And then I remember that I live in Los Angeles.

 

[bluemuse]

I was reading about how 600,000 Chinese citizens have been evactuated near a town because of flooding, and how 13 million more are at risk, and how this happens every year, and a little while back 4000 people died, and I'm thinking, "Why don't these stupid fucking people move?"

And then I remember that I live in Los Angeles.

Every year I think the same thing about Tornado Alley. I mean.....Good Lord!!! Those things could kill a person.

Then I too recall that I live in earthquake country.

 

[sunstruck]

And then I remember that I live in Los Angeles.

Glass houses have great views.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I told you people, no more fortune cookies for Sunstruck!

 

[Calamity Jane]

Re: Re: Why don't these people move?

Every year I think the same thing about Tornado Alley. I mean.....Good Lord!!! Those things could kill a person.

I grew up in Kansas and have never seen a Tornado, or known anyone who's home was damaged by one.

I have always wondered why people would live somewhere that the earth routinely decides to try and buck you off.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

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I grew up in Kansas and have never seen a Tornado, or known anyone who's home was damaged by one.

I have always wondered why people would live somewhere that the earth routinely decides to try and buck you off.

It's like sex, but all at once for everybody.

 

[bluemuse]

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I grew up in Kansas and have never seen a Tornado, or known anyone who's home was damaged by one.

I have always wondered why people would live somewhere that the earth routinely decides to try and buck you off.

I honestly have no answer for that. It's downright stupid. I'm third generation Californian.....I don't get out of bed for anything under a 5.0.

 

[bluemuse]

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It's like sex, but all at once for everybody.

And it only happens once in a verrryy long while.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

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And it only happens once in a verrryy long while.

Speak for yourself. Maybe you should get a green chem suit. It will make you stand out from the crowd.

 

[bluemuse]

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Speak for yourself. Maybe you should get a green chem suit. It will make you stand out from the crowd.

I would never speak for you. I don't know your language.

Yeah....all the boys would come a runnin' if I had me one of those suits....

 

[sunstruck]

I told you people, no more fortune cookies for Sunstruck!

Just leave me the pork fried rice.

The way I see it, there are few places you can live on this rock that don't have some form a freaky ass killer weather. And you'd rather face what you know than what you don't.

Give me a hurricane over and earthquake any day!

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Maybe I am wrong, but I was always under the impression that the majority of the land in China is one huge flood plain. Millions of years of runoff from the Himalaya's, depositing on the shore of the ocean, creating the largest flood plain in the world. Much of China is just a few inches above the average flood level of the Yangtze River. So the reason they don't move is because they can't move anywhere that's much safer.

 

[WaxNWane]

Yeah, and can't those Sally Struthers kids just go get something from McDonalds already?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

the reason they don't move is because they can't move anywhere that's much safer.

I've flown over Nevada. There's PLENTY of room there.

 

[bluemuse]

Give me a hurricane over and earthquake any day!

I hear this all the time. Makes me wonder if I should live my life curled up in the fetal position, waiting for the "Big One". Probably...

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I've flown over Nevada. There's PLENTY of room there.

Hey, I grew up....was raised....... in Nevada.

 

[sunstruck]

I've flown over Nevada. There's PLENTY of room there.

You want the Chinese to move into the Grand Canyun?

*sits back and waits for the red necks with pitchforks yelling "Commie bastard!"*

 

[sunstruck]

I hear this all the time. Makes me wonder if I should live my life curled up in the fetal position, waiting for the "Big One". Probably...

I'd also take them over tornados. But earthquakes are still the worst.

The ground moves. It moves. The ground.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I hear this all the time. Makes me wonder if I should live my life curled up in the fetal position, waiting for the "Big One". Probably...

I'm sorry. To take advantage of this post would just be too easy.

Morals over mirth, I always say.

 

[bluemuse]

I'm sorry. To take advantage of this post would just be too easy.

Morals over mirth, I always say.

Ahhhh...He's smarter than he looks...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

My wife went to UCLA, so she had some history with tremors. Not me. I grew up on solid fucking rock in New Jersey. We had no hurricanes, floods, or blizzards of any real note. No tornados. No volcanoes. Sometimes the shore would have "rip tides". That's it.

So I move to L.A. with my wife. We're here six months and one morning, around 4am, the whole fucking room starts bouncing up and down. I'm wide awake in half a second flat and say, "Is this an Earthquake?" like a dope. "Yes." says my wife. I think I said something like "We're okay. We're together." It went on for about 45 seconds. The roar was tremendous. The lights were out. The room was not shaking left and right, but straight up and down. I'm thinking maybe they're rehearsing the stage version of The Exorcist next door. Not until it ends do I think that maybe we should have gotten under a doorway or a table or some damn thing.

It was the Northridge Quake, epicenter about 10 miles away. 6.2 or 6.4, depending on where in the Valley you were. And, as terrifying as that was, and it was terrifying, worse were the aftershocks. The first day they came every 5 or 10 minutes. Then, for the next six months, every half hour. Every half hour an aftershock that you could feel. I saw one wobble the largest soundstage on the Universal back lot. It was like a Chinese Water Torture for 3 million people. It was the most unnerving six months of my life.

I swore I'd leave.

I'm still here.

 

[Bidin~Time]

*snorts*

you is some crazy peoples!!!

lmao!!!

 

[sunstruck]

There isn't like an earthquake season even is there? I mean, at least with hurricanes and tornados the season passes and you're safe for a few moths.

I swear if the ground moves while I'm in LA I'm going to pee my pants. I've been there 12 times and it's yet to happen.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Well, DCL, as I'm sure you know, you could start packing the Chinese into oil tankers, 20,000 at a time, and China would never run out of Chinamen. Maybe this is what they want us to do...move them to Nevada....then they can take over our country peacefully, with no resistance.

Damn you and your plans.

 

[bluemuse]

The Northridge quake was one of the few I actually got out of bed for. Didn't get up for any of the aftershocks though.