In article
<wildbilly-EDD68A.10264404052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <e7lr14pmhtqjfhptrjumi9p9snhf60rls7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 04 May 2008 01:04:36 -0500, Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >
> > >In article
> > ><wildbilly-A9CEA0.09542603052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > > Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> In article
> > >> <481c529e$0$14267$5a62ac22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > >> "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
be given> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > <Charlie> wrote in message
> > >> > news:p5gk1419v08guqnum1cnuetigskt0flhvj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> > >I just set out the first of the 'mater plants. Siberian and
> > >> > >Subarctic,
> > >> > > new heirlooms for me this year. Early, short season breeds. I
tried
> > >> > > Stupice last year and wasn't overly impressed. This is the
first
> > >> > > spring that I haven't used a tiller. I started the lasagna
business
> > >> > > last fall.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I was amazed at the number of earthworms I saw! There were
easily
> > >> > > several dozen in each hole I dug for the transplants, several
adult
> > >> > > worms and many small worms. This soil improvement business
*is*
> > >> > > what
> > >> > > it is cracked up to be.
> > >> >
> > >> > Surely you didn't doubt it Charlie?
> > >> >
> > >> > > ****, the weather monitor thingie just went off and informed us
we
> > >> > > are
> > >> > > in a 'nado watch 'til 1am.....nothing new hereabouts, but I
still
> > >> > > don't
> > >> > > like it much. Tornados are hard on gardens!
> > >> >
> > >> > Ouch. I'm sure glad we don't get those blasted things here. I
saw on
> > >> > the
> > >> > news tonight that another one had killed more people in the US
again
> > >> > and
> > >> > done a humungeous amount of damage. Hope you and your garden are
> > >> > safe.
> > >>
> > >> Uh, how's your garden today Charlie? I understand that a twister
set
> > >> down in KC and made a mess:-(
> > >
> > >Hope he is ok. We had a twister set down here March of 2007 about 2
> > >miles from my house. Fortunately, we live West of IH-35 and most
> > >tornadoes stay to the East of that line. The terrain of the hill
country
> > >breaks them up and the freeway is the dividing line. It did some
damage
> > >to the warehouses and the police station a few hundred feet on this
side.
> > >
> > >I was coming up the freeway commuting home from work. I missed
running
> > >into the damned thing by about 5 or 10 minutes. :-(
> > >
> > >I've had nightmares about tornadoes... It's one item I truly fear.
> > >--
> >
> > THey are a hell of a thing, aren't they. Until one sees, up close,
the
> > things they can do, weird things along with the damage, you just can't
> > imagine, though I can't imagine going thru an earthquake, like Billy
> > and all the leftcoasters *should * fear!! "Course we have our New
> > Madrid fault to worry about, but we should be clear of anything major
> > up here in the opposite corner of the state.
> >
> > Catch ya' later, I've got a little one gnawing on my arm, making it a
> > bit hard to type. :-)
> >
> > Charlie
>
> Earthquakes ain't so bad, so long as your not underneath a freeway:-(
> The most remarked on earthquake was the 1906 San Francisco trembler but
> the truth is, that it was the fires afterward that did the damage. The
> most awesome result of the '06 quake was up in rural Marin county,
> where the right-slip, San Andreas fault moved twenty feet. Property is
> pretty cheap along the fault line. From Marin county, the San Andreas
> goes out to sea and north for about 100 miles, where it connects to the
> San Juan de la ****ha subduction fault, off Cape Mendocino, that
> continues on up into British Columbia, and feeds active volcanoes like
> St. Helens and Mt. Rainier.
Theoretically, the San Andreas fault is the edge of a continental plate.
Some doomsayers say that that part of California (West of the SA fault)
will eventually be underwater.
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Peace! Om
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a *****."
-- Jack Nicholson
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