Re: Ed Blum Sonic Surgery Amp Tech review


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It's not a question of whether a major earthquake will occur in the
San Francisco bay area, but when. [snip]
The certainty of a major earthquake devastating a major metropolitan
area is no less than a major hurricane devastating an area on the
Gulf or East coasts.

It isn't so much a question of certainty but of the regularity with which it
happens, the left coast can go for many, many years without major quake
damage, but hurricanes happen every year, guaranteed. Every couple of years
we see the coast nailing plywood over its windows and hoping for the best,
sometimes they dodge the bullet and sometimes they don't, but they know the
bullet is coming every damn year. SF knows the bullet is coming too, but it
might not be until next century, that's the difference.

Earthquake insurance isn't cheap, but it's not outrageous either, and
most people living along the San Andreas fault don't have it.

In relation to the deductibles it seems pretty outrageous, or so I'm told,
it makes car insurance seem downright reasonable.

Even though there has been periodic minor - an less frequently,
moderate - flooding, the city of New Orleans has never in its history
flooded to the degree it was after Katrina.

And Pompeii/Herculaneum were never in their history buried in volcanic ash
to the degree they were in 79 AD, so should the Romans have rebuild the
cities on the same locations once the slag had hardened?

Maybe a year before Katrina National Geographic had an article on the city,
I remember one photo of a guy standing at some intersection holding a real
long pole marked off in feet showing the depth of the water that would
result from a major levee failure, the article sounded dire warnings about
how serious the threat was and all the work that needed to be done to
prevent it. Pretending Katrina was a bolt from the blue that nobody saw
coming just won't wash.

New Orleans is nearly 300
years old. The only reason it was flooded is because the construction
of the levees was below standards called for in Army Corps of
Engineers plans. The Netherlands are are below sea level too, by the
way.

Yeah, but they haven't cheaped-out on protecting themselves, their flood
protection is designed to handle floods on a much longer time-scale than the
LA levees were even supposed to handle. Hell, they probably didn't even
spend flood-control money on berths for gambling ships like they did in LA,
real bunch of tight-asses those Dutch. Well, except for the legal weed and
hookers.

In the end, it's people with a mindset similar to yours that are
killing New Orleans. Apathy, ignorance, and lack of empathy.

Oh grow up, what is killing New Orleans is being below sea level in a
hurricane-target state notorious for its govt. corruption and with a
population that in large part lacks the financial resources to recover from
that kind of hit. People who can't afford insurance are way less likely to
rebuild. And many are smart enough to figure out that while most areas are
subject to one sort of natural disaster or another, some places are just too
risky, especially places where the government's emergency planning is a
joke. Not too long ago the Governor of LA announced an investigation into
why billions of dollars hasn't found it's way to the people and projects in
need of that money, but it's my apathy and lack of empathy that is killing
New Orleans? That's odd, I don't seem to have the missing money stashed
around here anyplace, how about you check with Governor Blanco and get back
to us about what is killing New Orleans.

So where do you suggest we in New Orleans relocate to, brainiac?
A tornado alley?
Next to a volcano?
Next to a river?
Near an earthquake fault?
Where one gets buried by blizzards or snow avalances?
Near a nuke plant?
To a droughted area that easily catches fire?
To where one can literally freeze to death?
In an asphalt jungle?
In a tsunami zone?
Next to a mountain that could have an avalance at any moment?
Next to an oil refinery or chemical plant or bomb making factory?
In a mudslide zone?
Next to a polluted lake?
Where it floods from rainstorms?
Where there are excessive heat waves?
Where there are landslides?
In a war zone?
To another planet where there are none of these conditions?

Where exactly do brainiacs like you locate yourselves?
In a bunker?



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