>Sad that 20+ years later, that still happens.

Even sadder ... when a man does that.

<<people are trying to figure out how to put the top up on their car while going 110 mph on the freeway...>>

...while on the cell with their agent and trying to balance the vente mochalattehalffrap with light cream and no sugar on their knee.

In Nor. Cal they do it because they get distracted by fantasies of calling in sick to work and driving 4-5 hours to Reno or Tahoe so they can get an hour of skiing in before they have to drive back.

GM Reexa

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I'll march this road; I'll climb this hill upon my knees if I have to. --Tim Cappello

<<Heh, sounds like when it rains in Southern California. Wet stuff falling from the sky here makes people have some sort of temporary loss of sanity when they're behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.>>

I always laughed when it rained in San Diego because my favorite local news station would send correspondents all over the county for "Storm Watch". It was ALWAYS Storm Watch, even when it drizzled (which, in CA, is a torrential downpour). And they'd have live team coverage and go between all the different people and ask them if it was raining in that part of the county.

I tell people in Kansas about that and they either don't believe me or think I'm crazy.

Meghan

<<because I heard a native Floridian point out that Kansas was "way too hilly">>

You know, as someone who has traversed various hills in eastern Kansas, I can agree with this, although eastern Kansas isn't much like the rest of the state in several regards.

Meghan

>Air with less than 98% humidity is not fit for breathing.

Yep and New Orleans is the way to go. Forget florida. Forget Cali. All I want to do is go back and kiss winters and the harsh pang of sobriety goodbye forever. But alas, I am in DC with a bunch of overworked, underpaid, metrosexual, wine-sipping, name-dropping, sissy hill staffers. Can I get a little debauchery please?

~Purehand

>>In Nor. Cal they do it because they get distracted by fantasies of calling in sick to work and driving 4-5 hours to Reno or Tahoe so they can get an hour of skiing in before they have to drive back.

I always thought it was the built-in aromatherapy. Get up in the redwoods, you might get light-headed from the smell and fatigued from having to drive 6 hours just to turn the corner. :)

J'Lo, no that other one

<<I always thought it was the built-in aromatherapy. Get up in the redwoods, you might get light-headed from the smell and fatigued from having to drive 6 hours just to turn the corner.>>

No no, you're too far north now. See, that part's the "near Oregon" part. We have So. Cal, Nor. Cal and "Near Oregon".

GM Reexa


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I'll march this road; I'll climb this hill upon my knees if I have to. --Tim Cappello

<<I'll miss it dredfully when I leave.>> GM Reexa

I miss it too. I want to move back, but I figure I should wait at least two years so I build equity in my new home.

Oh heck, who am I fooling? I'm waiting two years so my family and friends can't be too quick to say "I told you so."

They were right.

Durn it.

Lisette, up in Redding (beautiful but dull).

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>Please pray for the Troops

<<<<My New England autumns beat out your CA earthquakes and FL tornadoes.

~Nexty, in love with the fall.

Arcath and I are from New England too! I have to agree with you that our autumns are the best! It's my favorite time of the year!!

~Sara

I'd rather have all those hurricanes than even one bad earthquake.

Arcelebor

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"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

nah, I'm sure those are tornado proof rooms, if that's the case, it'll take a nuke to bring down the room... or at least an F5


Souv

You sense (N, S) from your current position:
A relatively healthy presence nearby.
Roundtime: 6 seconds

<< I usually knock on their door and go "Hi, I'm from California and don't like tornadoes, can I hang out with you until it goes away?" and they invite me in.

Especially useful if they have pizza or are, y'know, hot.

Arcelebor

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"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

Heh, I had forgoten that NH(my tiny slice of NE) is on/near a fault line til I started reading all these earthquake posts. We get "quake" once every 10 or so years. Nothing like what you get out in CA, but we'll wake up in the night and everything will be vibrating just a little bit.

I think the last one was about 5 or so years ago and was in fact in upstate NY, and we felt little rumbles for a moment or two here in southern NH.

~Nexty, loves NH maple syrup(better then that VT syrup!!!), flannel shirts, pick your own apple season at the farm stands, pumpkin carving, pumpkin fest!, and climbing to the top of MT. Monadnock and looking out over the hundreds of tree's at the peak color change.

>>No earthquakes, period, for the Midwest. If we start shaking like California, Simu's liable to come crashing down.

Obviously no one's heard of the giant volcanic caldera under yellowstone. The 21st most dangerous volcano in the world and one of the world's most active geological spots.


So there certainly are, and will be again earthquakes in the midwest

>>Nexty, loves NH maple syrup(better then that VT syrup!!!), flannel shirts, pick your own apple season at the farm stands, pumpkin carving, pumpkin fest!, and climbing to the top of MT. Monadnock and looking out over the hundreds of tree's at the peak color change.<<

NH maple syrup is better then VT..VT trees just aren't the same
Flannel shirts are only after Mass., once you get into northern NE (I live in southern NE)
Apple picking is fun.
Pumkpin carving is good..pumpkin pie..better..
I went to the top of a mountain in NH and I have to agree, it was gorgeous.

~Beth, player of Villya

>Having gone through Loma Prieta in '89

Um, I started with the Pasadena quake in '70 and lived with 'em all my life. Don't notice 'em gone now either, since there's no real difference between the train or bus outside shaking the building and an earthquake. Same with sonic booms. Eh. No biggie, really.

What I'm glad to be clear of are the firestorms and flooding. Yeah, we can have fires here and in rowhouses/apartments they're not fun, but they don't hit 50 mph and raze everything in their path. Same with floods, yeah, lots of folks get soggy basements and the soil, when soaked, just doesn't pick up anymore, especially in the massive rainstorms, but even Isabel just flooded the harbor and island areas. Well, duh. This isn't to mention the landslides when you get flood conditions after the firestorms in Cali.

Dio's player, not entirely looking forward to going back to Cali today.

You're ALL wrong. Texas is the place to be.

-Auria

Texas is a great place to be from. Native Texan here and proud of it.

Livin' in Tennessee now. It's pretty nice. We actually get winters here...the whole time I lived in Texas it might've snowed 3 times.

~Ahri's player

>>We actually get winters here...

eeeewww, winters! How yucky.

> I see dead people...<

Vote for Pedro

>But nothing beats a nice Florida sunset:

>http://stir.deviantart.com/

>My friend's artwork with his digital camera.

Good stuff, that's a nice piece of glass on whatever he's shooting with. All I've been using the last few years is a 4 megapixel fixed-lens snapshot camera. It's very small and very nice and very easy to use, but it doesn't get anywhere near as sharp as I want it to. I miss having a camera with a real lens on it!