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mod sassinator posted:There's also a much, much higher chance a car or truck smashes into you on the highway tomorrow then a major quake crushes you. i thank god every day when i get home that i didnt get exploded
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Ernie Muppari posted:i thank god every day when i get home that i didnt get exploded My grandmother just called that "Being Catholic"
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Lazy_Liberal posted:One of my classmates couldn't sleep last night since she's so scared of the big earthquake. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one posted:In Oregon, it has been illegal since 1995 to build hospitals, schools, firehouses, and police stations in the inundation zone, but those which are already in it can stay, and any other new construction is permissible: energy facilities, hotels, retirement homes. In those cases, builders are required only to consult with [Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries] about evacuation plans. “So you come in and sit down,” Ian Madin says. “And I say, ‘That’s a stupid idea.’ And you say, ‘Thanks. Now we’ve consulted.’ ”
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Accretionist posted:Since they filled in after the fire, isn't half the downtown garbage and Chinese fixed it for the historical application of chinamen in early Seattle. colonel_korn posted:Friendly reminder that death is certain: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one  On a serious note I am about 98% sure things will be fine, except for anyone on the Viaduct they will be dead. On the flipside maybe a terrifying death in a biblical earthquake apocalypse will push away the Californians move to Texas & Colorado instead dammit. Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Who would willingly live in either of those hell holes though? Too hot on one hand, too cold on the other. Now, why aren't people nice like we are down in California? <-- A loving monster, probably.
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bartkusa posted:I'll laugh if this megaquake causes Bertha's tunnel to kill more people than the viaduct ever could've. Would you really laugh? That is hosed up.
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http://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/earthquakes/buildings/ quote:Structures predating 1974, when Oregon enacted its first statewide building code, would suffer the worst damage in a 9.0-magnitude earthquake. Buildings constructed after 1993, when western Oregon adopted its first seismic standards, are considered the most likely to withstand a severe earthquake. The map shows which buildings in the tri-county area were built in each era. The data from Metro regional government do not reflect potential seismic upgrades or renovations.
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size1one posted:http://projects.oregonlive.com/maps/earthquakes/buildings/ or anything other than when they were constructed i refuse to believe that the lovely hipster tenements across the street from me are better suited to ride out a major earthquake than my crappy place considering they're a bunch of stick thin multistory buildings that were built out of almost nothing, and that they've deteriorated more in the 4 years since they were built than my place has in its decades of existence
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Ernie Muppari posted:or anything other than when they were constructed I'd make a blind wager that your neighbor's place was designed and manufactured up to California weatherproofing standards i.e. with none. Cheap homes built in the last three years are going to be lousy with mold by the time the next president gets elected.
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That doesn't mean anything. Masonry is excellent building material that can last a very long time, but if you give it any sort of ground movement it fail hard. In other news http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5756809/ns/us_news-weird_news/t/bear-downs-beers-passes-out-campground/#.Vak0hRNVhBc quote:Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest. The beast then consumed about 36 cans of Rainier. Wanna party with that bear.
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Irradiation posted:That doesn't mean anything. Masonry is excellent building material that can last a very long time, but if you give it any sort of ground movement it fail hard. my place is made of wood
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Jack2142 posted:On the flipside maybe a terrifying death in a biblical earthquake apocalypse will push away the Californians move to Texas & Colorado instead dammit. Also it would take a literal rampage of an angel with a flaming sword or an alien invasion to get Californians to decide Texas was "the place to go to".
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thanks to portlandmaps.com (great site) I just learned that my apartment building was built in 1966 rather than the 80s as I had assumed, whoops.
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Hey, cool, my workplace is blue. I assume that's good? When the big one hits, maybe I'll just move in there. It will be a secure base from which I can rule the wastelands.
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FRINGE posted:If youre waiting on earthquakes to scare Californians away you are very confused. Maybe I was hoping they would be fleeing the Earthquakes.
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Even though I was the OP for this thread, I've actually been living in Montana for a while. But now I am "back home" in suburban Clark County. Its kind of interesting for me, coming from Montana, because Clark County is not exactly a small place: its population of 430,000 people is almost half the entire population of Montana. But its weird that there can be a cultural divide between the exurbs and Portland, even though they are so physically close to each other.
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glowing-fish posted:But its weird that there can be a cultural divide between the exurbs and Portland, even though they are so physically close to each other. I've grown up in inner NE/SE and the temp job I worked in Tigard was total culture shock. When I suggested people could visit our other store in Portland I got looks like I'd suggested a vacation in Somalia.
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Abner Cadaver II posted:I've grown up in inner NE/SE and the temp job I worked in Tigard was total culture shock. When I suggested people could visit our other store in Portland I got looks like I'd suggested a vacation in Somalia. What are the cultures like?
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Baronjutter posted:What are the cultures like? Pretty typical for the region - conservative whites in the suburbs, liberal whites in the city, non-whites getting shoved to and fro by gentrification.  With an added layer of "loving hippies and their urban growth boundary - we need more subdivisions!".
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Thank gently caress, it's not 95 degrees out for the first time in like two weeks
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Abner Cadaver II posted:I've grown up in inner NE/SE and the temp job I worked in Tigard was total culture shock. When I suggested people could visit our other store in Portland I got looks like I'd suggested a vacation in Somalia. And if that is the situation with Tigard, imagine the situation with Yacolt? I visited Yacolt two days ago, it was interesting, although I don't know if I can make too sharp of a point about it.
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glowing-fish posted:Yacolt ... I don't know if I can make too sharp of a point about it. Yacolt has a stoplight! Also Yacolt has a post office!
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Is there a pacific northwest ETF that I can sink an unreasonable amount of money into?
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Roki B posted:Is there a pacific northwest ETF that I can sink an unreasonable amount of money into?
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So who is everyone voting for My state Representative I voted for last time died before the election was won so I get to vote again. Also for one of the Port Commissioner spots we have three lovely choices a libertarian accelerationist, Gregoires daughter and a Marxist Lenninst actually I think that candidate pool sums up Northwest politics in a nutshell.
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Jack2142 posted:My state Representative I voted for last time died before the election was won so I get to vote again. Also for one of the Port Commissioner spots we have three lovely choices a libertarian accelerationist, Gregoires daughter and a Marxist Lenninst actually I think that candidate pool sums up Northwest politics in a nutshell. Ahh yes, Goodspaceguy. The candidate statements in the King County election booklet are comedy gold, and his wasn't even the worst. (My favorites were the guy who wrote his statement in all caps and called George Washington "North American Hitler", and the former school teacher who blamed the Jews for all the world's problems.)
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Jack2142 posted:So who is everyone voting for You're in the 30th LD special election? Make sure you and other local folks you know vote for Carol Gregory, it's a very important swing seat going into next year. The legislature might be a frustrating and useless body, but when it's as closely divided as it is now, every Democrat can make a huge difference.
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I always vote goodspaceguy.
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Flobbster posted:Ahh yes, Goodspaceguy. The candidate statements in the King County election booklet are comedy gold, and his wasn't even the worst. (My favorites were the guy who wrote his statement in all caps and called George Washington "North American Hitler", and the former school teacher who blamed the Jews for all the world's problems.) I'm deeply disappointed in Goodspaceguy this cycle. He's running for Port Commission - but we don't even get a crackpot scheme to create the Spaceport of Seattle. All he has to offer is standard wacko-libertarian boilerplate on the evils of a minimum wage and unions. If he can't even live up to his name, how can he hope to keep his promises? Vote anybody but Goodspaceguy for Port Commission.
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Aren't't there like five or more reasonable people running for port position five? I bet most are kicking themselves for not running for position two.
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Spaseman posted:Aren't't there like five or more reasonable people running for port position five? I bet most are kicking themselves for not running for position two. I am sure most of them didn't want to run against the ex-governors daughter.
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I've read that Seattle's developed a number of alleys in recent years. Have any of you observed this amd how it affects local transients? What got me thinking about this is that I walked through an alley today and the alley was beautiful but the homeless were shifty. I can't help but wonder how pop-up bier gartens and rear cafe entrances might affect the hobo distribution.
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Accretionist posted:I've read that Seattle's developed a number of alleys in recent years. Have any of you observed this amd how it affects local transients? What got me thinking about this is that I walked through an alley today and the alley was beautiful but the homeless were shifty. I can't help but wonder how pop-up bier gartens and rear cafe entrances might affect the hobo distribution. I don't know let me go out and poll the hobos and find out.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:I don't know let me go out and poll the hobos and find out. The homeless are still using the Bell street parklet things with no problem, so, there you go.
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reading posted:The homeless are still using the Bell street parklet things with no problem, so, there you go. Yeah but that's a repurposed street. We need poll data from the nitty gritty side.
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Turning alleys into sidewalk cafes reminds me of france so by all means keep doing it. As far as transients are concerned, they'll just walk one more block.
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My god I keep seeing posts about "THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF SEATTLE'S $15 AN HOUR WAGE" with basically saying "A pizza shop closed down because they couldn't pay their workers  " (ignore all the other restaurants that opened between the passing of the law and now) and "heh look at this guy who said he wants less hours to keep his welfare!"But by and large, everything seems alright!
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That pizza joint wasn't paying 15/hr and people drawing conclusions about the change are super premature, hth.
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Delta-Wye posted:That pizza joint wasn't paying 15/hr and people drawing conclusions about the change are super premature, hth. I think the conclusion that a living wage wouldn't immediately doom Seattle business and cause all the "job creators" to move to Thailand, as per the standard GOP accusation, is pretty well substantiated at this point.
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I have to admit I'm impressed by the Greenpeace protesters dangling from the St. John's bridge to protest Arctic drilling.
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