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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ah, Marie, only sorta <g>  The "threat" of devasting earthquakes is a once 
in 50 to 100 years thing and only in parts of CA.  What we don't understand 
is folks that live in places where the natural disasters strike almost 
yearly!

The thing that scared the beejeebers out of me was sheet lightning. 
Particularly as I wasn't expecting it!  Here I am with a yearling and a 2 
year old who'd never been in a horse trailer plus another yearling with an 
astronomical Lloyd's insurance policy on him and boom not 30 feet in front 
of the truck is a big nasty "solid" gigantic sheet of what looked like 
polished aluminum slamming down in front of us and sounds like cannons going 
off!

Personally, I think states should have warning signs as you enter them 
"beware [fill in blank with disaster most likely to happen in that state] so 
those unaware don't end up in a ditch <g>

And then there was the black ice on metal bridges.  What's with metal 
bridges in ice country?  And the drivers don't even slow down and then, I 
swear, as they hit one of the bridges they shout "wheeeeeeee" and go sliding 
across them without a care in the world.   It's like little kids with 
toboggans and the cars look like a demolition derby survivor.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>
> And tornadoes in the Midwest, one of which cut a swath just south of me a
> mile or more wide a few years ago -- it wiped out houses and businesses. 
> One
> lumber company went out of business after its inventory was scattered over
> several square miles (and it had really nice lumber -- I still mourn its
> demise).
>
> Really, there ain't no safe place on Earth. People in California who live
> with threat of devastating earthquakes are freaked by lightening storms 
> and
> tornadoes in the Midwest, not to mention ice storms.
>
> Earth has no guaranteed safe places.
>
> Marie
>
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