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Disaster preparedness is a necessity for smart people and true conservatives
Loma Prieta damage in 1989 Over the past several years, our town and the next town over have worked hard to bring disaster preparedness from the government level down to the community level....
View ArticleHelping Haiti *UPDATED*
I am distrustful of television, since it often creates a false reality. When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco in 1989, I was out of town. The images shown on CNN made it look as if the...
View ArticleEven the earth is out to get Mexico
Questions swirl (a little bit) about whether the fatal swine flu plaguing Mexico is a “man-caused disaster” or just the run-of-the-mill Nature triumphs kind of thing. There can be no doubt, however...
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So sad. I think many of America’s planning departments have a Code fetish that is counter productive, since they try to impose on every single building — and every aspect of every building — a standard...
View ArticleCo-inky-dinks *UPDATE*
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Nature celebrated this anniversary in style, by visiting a bone-shaker on the American Midwest. I found it an amusing...
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