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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:58:22 -0800
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In article <vglgaq$o84$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> In article <lsesij93jemheqibovvadf4n9n33u3aj9i@4ax.com>,
> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> >On 7 Nov 2024 23:45:56 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> >
> >>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> >>>Seattle doesn't want you. We are actually considering reviving the
> >>>Lesser Seattle movement of the past.
> >>>
> >>>Remember, it always rains in Seattle.
> >>
> >>Might be a nice place for a Worldcon, though.
> >
> >Unless we are under a Heat Dome and the power fails.
> >
> >Or we get another dose of Freezing Rain. One lasting more than one
> >day.
> >
> >Small tornadoes are rare, but not unknown. Maybe once a decade or two.
> 
> Or Mt Rainier erupts, sending a lahar downhill.

That will wipe out Tacoma; but downtown Seattle is probably outside the 
danger zone (the airport and adjacent hotels are up on a plateau and 
should be above all of that).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com