Talking 'bout shakin & quakin

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat Jun 9 05:07:22 2001

If you did have tornadoes and earthquakes you'd probably have a bad weather
tax too :-) Want some fun weather? Go to Iceland around late December when
the south winds bring up warm air into subzero hard frozen weather and an
effect similar to a hurricane occurs, only with driving rains and high winds
on top of hard packed frozen snow and ice. Makes for an interesting couple
days.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Peter Joules
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:06 AM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Talking 'bout shakin & quakin
>
>
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, you wrote:
> > IIRC, the largest US quake (of which we have reliable evidence) in the
> > last 150 years was on the New Madrid fault in (I think) Tennessee, which
> > changed the course of the Ohio River. It was approaching a 9.0 R.
> >
> > So California can not claim to have *all* the fun.
>
> You Americans get all the fun... Here in the UK I have only
> experienced one
> earthquake, big by our stanadrds, of about 3 R, it felt like a
> particularly
> heavy truck going past. We never have any _decent_ tornadoes,
> just whirwinds
> which knock over a few trees. We haven't got any volcanoes, and decent
> thunderstorms are few and far between.
>
> The closest I get to the wild side of nature is to watch it on TV :(.
>
> I must point out so as not to cause offence that I accept that
> these things
> cause tragedy for many people, and should probably not be
> perceived as fun.
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Pete
Received on Sat Jun 09 2001 - 05:07:22 BST