Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 09:58:22 -0800 Organization: home user Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net DfCXv4FRuNW3JTumBcex/wwDpZ7uecEpgQQzP+5+R8UCvOxjjL X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:h5LGI0OG2kbeMZZgNwVdJd1DcN0= sha256:p8xx2tj2lQry53CBVbhPqRaLePhtp5qwXrkmG3D92PQ= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2117 In article , jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: > In article , > Paul S Person wrote: > >On 7 Nov 2024 23:45:56 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > > > >>Paul S Person 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_. ‹----------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com