And my house getting picked up and dropped down the street is good? Um, no.
I'll stick with ground that shakes. At least my house stays in the same zipcode.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
NoiseDesign - Jan 10, 2005 4:53:00 pm PST #4640 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 4:53:04 pm PST #4641 of 10002
And yes, ginormous drop-offs. Stairs so steep my mom climbed by sitting on her ass and scooting up backwards. And I would have too, seeing the pictures.
Kristen - Jan 10, 2005 4:54:23 pm PST #4642 of 10002
Earthquakes are quick, and hard to predict. So I like them, because no anticipation.
Yes, this. It really hit home for me when my parents were in Florida for this year's hurricane season. I like that earthquakes just happen. No 10 days of worrying if the storm is going to hit you or veer past. An earthquake comes out of the blue and you deal.
Pix - Jan 10, 2005 4:55:37 pm PST #4643 of 10002
The status is NOT quo.
And yes, ginormous drop-offs. Stairs so steep my mom climbed by sitting on her ass and scooting up backwards. And I would have too, seeing the pictures.
I will still do it. Someday. With Valium.
And my house getting picked up and dropped down the street is good? Um, no.
I agree, which is why I am hugely not into the whole tornado thing. However, I can leave ahead of time if a bad hurricane is coming. An earthquake? Nsm.
Sue - Jan 10, 2005 4:57:24 pm PST #4644 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Once again I got Machu Piccu and Chichen Itza mixed up. Nothing to see here, really.
Cass - Jan 10, 2005 4:57:36 pm PST #4645 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
No, really, it's not.Well certainly not when there is massive destruction and loss of life as just happened. Any disaster, natural or man-made, would be tragic on that scale.
But just the tremblors that move some stuff around a little? It is really fascinating to me. The earth isn't a dead rock, it is constantly changing and renewing. Obviously YGeologicIntrigueMV.
I should have said that *I* think it is.
sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 4:58:54 pm PST #4646 of 10002
I think tornado/earthquake/hurricane is one of those personality things. Someone make an internet quiz.
Kristin, I can say I think it'd be so worth it. My parents brought back over 600 pictures that make me drool with envy. They went from flat farmlands, to salt farms to MP. And the incredibleness of the engineering feats, and the beautiful location. It is truly amazing.
Mom would like to go back.
sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 5:02:37 pm PST #4647 of 10002
I'm pretty sure that this year they closed off the ruins Machu Piccu to visitors, and that you can no longer climb them like you once did.
If you mean crawling all over the walls willynilly, sure. But you certainly have access to the whole and can touch them and go to the different levels. Plus climb up the steps to it as well as the nearby peaks. And the accesses are via paths the Incans laid. Most of my parents' hike was on old Incan roads. I got to hear all about them...
eta: Ah- saw edit.
Sue - Jan 10, 2005 5:05:36 pm PST #4648 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Sara, I went back and edited. I got Chichen Itza and Machu Piccu mixed up. Like I usually do. One's in Peru, the other's in Mexico. I know that, but I can't keep them straight in my head.
sarameg - Jan 10, 2005 5:07:26 pm PST #4649 of 10002
Yup, saw. Dazzled by the engineering as an excues?
Works for me.
BTW, alpalca makes lovely scarves. Not as itchy to me as wool (so LOVING the gifts my parents got there. Local watercolors I need to frame, too.)