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Better food than you find in the average American strip mall?
Works for me. Jeff JJ wrote: Why do people live in France, afterall it's sooo freaking french!!!!!!! |
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puzzled Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
having their houses destroyed? The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for more, and their houses keep getting blown away. |
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puzzled Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
having their houses destroyed? The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for more, and their houses keep getting blown away. |
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Because we don't have the expense of airfare to get to the cruise
terminals |
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"Terry Gowan" t wrote in message ink.net... "eüphemism" wrote in message ... Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and ice storms. They're all useful in cleaing out the gene pool. The people I least understand are the Californians that re-build their homes on the side of a mud-sliding mountain. Terry Gowan It's not so much where you live but how... I have as much sympathy as anyone can for people who are hit by disaster... but when the reporters ran out in the aftermath of Charlie and managed to find some old retired carny who seemed to have just barely survived Mr. Toad's Wild Ride as the storm had un-manufactured his double-wide, and this fellow immediately launched into a tirade against the forecasts that had called for the storm to have gone ashore slightly north of his last known position... well, my veins nearly popped. These people might try reading about the hurricane that hit Connecticut around '35. The weather forecast predicted a possibility of rain, with mostly cloudy skies. The storm that hit had been tracked as it passed Florida, but there was a problem with the "hand off" and the folks in the NE region had no inkling when that bitch suddenly came roaring ashore. Imagine the Roy Scheider and the shark chumming scene in Jaws... that's the reaction. Whining about a 120 mile "error" in the tracking of a storm that may be hundreds of miles in diameter has this guy laying pipe for an entirely new wing in the structure of stupidity. Then again, I never did understand why the State of Florida even allows mobile homes to be used as domiciles, and the people who live in those damned things are often the most defiant, ****-you-I-ain't-goin'-to-no-damn-shelter grits ever conceived. They all have pets and the shelters don't allow 'em, so you know how this story is going to end. Nowadays we get weeks of warning, extremely accurate path forecasting, and two days before the storm is to hit we still have angry people screaming at terrified Home Depot employees because there's no more plywood anywhere in the state, let alone in their store. If the predicted path is a degree off or the storm slows or weakens, then the forecasters get abused for overreacting or wasting people's time. This is when people should be emerging from beneath the rubble and applauding in a show of thanks for all the warnings they've so diligently ignored. If you're going to build that California house atop a slump-happy cliff, or especially at the BASE of said mud-slide, at least have the decency to refrain from ranting blame into some reporter's microphone if you happen to survive the big storm... Acceptable comments would be along the lines of "I am a really lucky idiot" or "Don't I just look so stupid?" Ü |
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Thank gawd, since I live basically along the San Andreas fault. Our last biggie
was in ' 89. No repeats for awhile, please. Lindsay Vandeman wrote: Earthquakes and tornados don't hit the same neighborhoods every few years. |
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That was the best answer yet. :-)
scoutdream wrote: Because we don't have the expense of airfare to get to the cruise terminals |
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That was the best answer yet. :-)
scoutdream wrote: Because we don't have the expense of airfare to get to the cruise terminals |
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"ScanMan" wrote in message news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05... Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm, that's all part of the wonderful world we live in. What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine... A Happy Floridian I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border, they're even worse. We call them Massholes! So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on the road. Mike R. |
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"ScanMan" wrote in message news:Hfu_c.1026$x12.87@trnddc05... Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm, that's all part of the wonderful world we live in. What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine... A Happy Floridian I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border, they're even worse. We call them Massholes! So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on the road. Mike R. |
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