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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 2153
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 2:23 pm: | |
Why do I live near a Nuclear power plant and in an area where a eight, nine or a possible ten on the Richter scale earthquake is not only possible but a sure thing. I was born here. At some point in my life I could have moved. But I love living on the edge. No I don't. This was my home. I have not traveled a lot. But I have been enough places that I find where I live a good place for me.
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Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 2196
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 2:34 pm: | |
"To heck with Yetiland. Try Scotland."
I thought they were the same? :-) |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6665
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 2:36 pm: | |
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
(Sir Walter Scott).
He's buried at Dryburgh Abbey. I've never got around to posting that album yet.
I hear what you're saying Mike. You are prepared to accept the risks to stay where you do. My attitude would be exactly the same.
Maybe the authorities will learn a lot from the Japanese disaster and made the power station bomb proof.
Speaking of bombs, those nutters in Ireland at planting them again. Hopefully the vast majority of the population will give the police enough info to track them down and "bang them up". (Get it?)
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Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 2155
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2011 - 2:49 pm: | |
Who the heck has got the Irish all worked up again. (I of course mean the idiots who are causing trouble. Not the General public.) Is it the old timers who want to relive their youth and send new youths out to kill themselves and others. Or is the new. Who because of unemployment and not much future have to blame someone other than themselves.
Ken lives in hurricane country. I live in earthquake land. Oh and the forest fires. and I live by the ocean. Tsunamis from other quakes could come any time. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. (fallout soon) |
Markus Reischl (Markus)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Markus
Post Number: 2198
Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 12:35 am: | |
I wrote in the FT thread: "Did you already decide where to go?"
I meant, when the plant collapses. I think, that most people would live with the risks. I grew up with one of the oldest nuclear power plants in Germany "Isar I", just about 40 km from my city. But what to do, when something is happening?
I. e. when they build the NPP in Estonia and something is happen as in Tschernobyl or now in Japan, where to put all 1.2 mln Estonian? We don't can come all to Scottland. |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 2157
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 1:59 am: | |
The road to Scotland is very good. It's getting across the sea that's a little more difficult. Although I must say that the day I crossed the channel it was beautiful. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1626
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 4:35 am: | |
Don't forget us in the Midwest who have to face tornado threats. I live in the area called "Tornado Alley". It's quite frightening. |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6667
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 4:59 am: | |
As my father always used to say, "Well it's failed to kill us so far". |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6671
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 6:34 am: | |
Statistically you must be far more likely to be killed in a road accident than by a tsunami, a hurricane, a tornado, a flood or a fire. Could we be worrying just a tad too much? |
Mike Butler (Butler77)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Butler77
Post Number: 2159
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 6:23 pm: | |
I can never worry TOO much. |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1630
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 9:42 pm: | |
What, me worry? |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1815
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 12:41 am: | |
Kathy, I always thought you looked like Alfred E. Neuman! |
Kathy Quade (Kathyquade)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Kathyquade
Post Number: 1631
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 3:55 am: | |
Actually, I look more like Howdy Doody. |
Ken Millar (Tpa_ken)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Tpa_ken
Post Number: 1816
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 7:24 am: | |
Not Clarabelle? |
Richard Mechen (Richardscotland)
Master Solitaire Player
Username: Richardscotland
Post Number: 6685
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 - 7:32 am: | |
Careful.
I admit I had to Google Clarabelle. Not familiar with that at all. |
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