It's global warming.
Global warming. Ask me about it after a week on the bike. In Alabama. In Mississippi. Yeah. Global warming had me in full leathers for a whole damned week.
Things seem to be getting quite active up your way geologically speaking. I bet it's Bush's fault.
Shake Rattle and Roll again
It's global warming.
Global warming. Ask me about it after a week on the bike. In Alabama. In Mississippi. Yeah. Global warming had me in full leathers for a whole damned week.
Gae in full leather all week....now you talk about HOT....
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No its not global warming....its PEAK OIL I tell you!!!!Originally posted by gae:
It's global warming.
Global warming. Ask me about it after a week on the bike. In Alabama. In Mississippi. Yeah. Global warming had me in full leathers for a whole damned week.
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Ya know Trav, I understand your point behind the photo you posted but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that we need to rid ourselves of those restrictions.
In my opinion, and hear this, its only MY opinion, if preserving ANWR and off shore drilling puts a crimp in the Excursion/Tahoe/Suburban/F350 Dualie/all other 10mpg vehicle driving public, then thats fine by me.
One thing I WOULD be for is to stop requiring all of these special blends of fuel for different periods of the year. I believe part of the problem is the time it takes the refineries to retool to make different blends that help to escalate the price points of gas.
Ultimately high fuel prices is an affliction we self induced. Our instant gratification/keep up with the Jones society have nobody but themselves to blame.
I would rather travel to Alaska and watch grizzlies and moose in their "undisturbed" habitat than drill there so someone can continue to drive their gas guzzling vehicles.
My $.02
Jump,
I seem to recall that you really didn't like the folks in Alaska all that much, but that's a story for another time, right? [img]wink.gif[/img]
I really, really understand what you're saying, and I'm more than willing to walk to the library and pharmacy and all that to save gas, but there is NO WAY Trav can get to his office from here using public transportation. Not too mention the meetings he must attend.
What's your answer? If we were DC or Chicago or San Franciso, it might work. But not here. (BTW, big talk as you burn our tax dollars, keeping the mean streets safe. [img]smile.gif[/img] )
Oh, and when you have a minute (HA!) pop me an email at [email protected]. I have computer geek questions (Linux). If you can't answer them, I'll invite you and your service weapon over to shoot every damned computer in the house.
Gae that was real dumb of you to post your email address like that. Now I'm am going to smear it all over they internet! You and Lake are nasty bitcheses who think you own this discussion board room. Now we'll will see who knows what!
That earthquake was really just Becky being musical (AKA PASSING GAS) [img]graemlins/gulp.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img]
Must have been all those extra beans!
Does seem like there have been a lot of quakes lately, all over the world!
Media: China quake buries 900, kills 107
Enlarge By Chaiwat Subprasom, Reuters
Workers stand outside their evacuated office building in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday after a reported 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck western China and shook surrounding countries.
BEIJING (AP) ? A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.
Four children died when two elementary schools in Chongqing municipality collapsed, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
One person was killed when the quake toppled a water tower in neighboring Sichuan province where the earthquake was centered, Xinhua said.
Xinhua did not give any other details on the 900 buried students or say if any of the students were thought to be alive.
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It reported 107 people had died and 34 people were injured.
The quake struck about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu at 2:28 p.m., the U.S. Geological Survey said on its website. Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system.
The quake affected telephone and power networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.
"In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service," said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.
Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.
"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.
Xinhua said an underground water pipe ruptured near the city's southern railway station, flooding a main thoroughfare. Reporters saw buildings with cracks in their walls but no collapses, Xinhua said.
The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.
Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the Olympics, which start in August.
Injuries were also reported in Aba prefecture of Sichuan province, where the local government said the quake cracked and collapsed buildings and damaged mountain roads.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 6 miles below the surface, and that there were several smaller aftershocks.
In Beijing, some 930 miles away, people ran screaming into the streets in other cities, where many residents said they had never been in an earthquake. In Fuyang, 660 miles to the east, chandeliers in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel swayed. "We've never felt anything like this our whole lives," said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.
Patients at the Fuyang People's No. 1 Hospital were evacuated. An hour after the quake, a half-dozen patients in blue-striped pajamas stood outside the hospital. One was laying on a hospital bed in the parking lot.
Closer to the epicenter in Chongqing, Lai Dequn was napping while her mother watched TV on the 19th floor of a hotel. "I suddenly felt the bed shaking and then realized it must be an earthquake," said the 42-year-old Lai. "So I just put on slippers and helped my mother down to the ground floor."
In Shanghai, skyscrapers swayed and most office occupants went rushing into the streets. The airport in the provincial capital, Chengdu, was closed and roads were clogged with traffic after the earthquake, state television reported.
Rain was also predicted for the disaster area.
Chinese President Hu Jintao ordered that the injured be quickly treated, Xinhua reported. Premier Wen Jiabao was headed to the epicenter and troops with China's People's Liberation Army were being dispatched to help with disaster relief.
In Beijing, thousands of people evacuated or were ordered out of buildings.
"I've lived in Taipei and California and I've been through quakes before. This is the most I've ever felt," said James McGregor, a business consultant who was inside the LG Towers in Beijing's business district. "The floor was moving underneath me."
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.
The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.
China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.
The U.S. Geological Survey described it as "a dangerous earthquake" given its proximity to densely populated areas.
"I would say the best characterization at this point is that it's a dangerous earthquake," said Bruce Presgrave, a geophysicist at the USGS in Colorado. "The entire area is a densely populated part of China. There are lots of people exposed to potentially damaging ground shaking."
In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.
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