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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:02 PM, roxann wrote:

> We did choose our specific home location after looking at the  
> historical earthquake data available from USGS online. My sister  
> didn't care to look into such stuff and she bought her land much  
> much closer to the danger zone for the New Madrid fault line. We  
> have also built our house foundation with the possibility of quakes  
> in mind although we are not in a really high danger zone here.

Very low probability according to the map in my book. We are both in a  
"one" area, historically not to worry.

> Also, the first year we owned the land we found out that the spot we  
> originally chose to put our house is prone to landslide. We got a  
> huge amount of rain in a short period and although most of the  
> ground here is rocky, that particular spot has a lot of soil, and  
> when it saturated it promptly moved away from the rocky base of the  
> mountain. Moved entire grown trees to new spots and they kept on  
> growing in their new home like nothing happened. unfortunately, that  
> happened to also be the center of the new driveway we had put in for  
> the house, lol. so, we decided to put the new house right behind the  
> old house. figured those settlers must have known more about  
> choosing good house sites, since it's been there for almost 100  
> years now.

California, the state of superlatives of every kind, may also be queen  
of mudslides. Certain areas of southern California have a predictable  
pattern of fires and slides, some closing major highways. In the East  
Bay area I have installed gas services terminating at the house meter  
with a coiled loop of copper tubing so that when the house slides down  
the hill the gas line will not rupture.

But the weather is nice.

If you like non-weather.