The threat a massive tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest has concerned scientists for years.
Experts say an event of this kind occurs roughly every 400-600 years, and the area is overdue a similar quake that could leave thousands dead or displaced.
Your post title is what I ask my wife every night.
Then she laughs.
I, for one, am willing to sacrifice the communities of Richmond and Delta to appease the god of tectonics.
Is it a nervous laugh?
No worries – I’m sure we can come up with a new tax for that !!
Maybe those years of Kate’s prayers to the Saint of San Andreas will pay off.
Fear mongering has become the order of the day,nothing can be discussed sensibly,no real science need be mentioned,only the false science of the AGW scare, and the msm has become as reliable as the village gossip in ancient times,”she’s a witch”!
Yes,Vancouver Island might get hit by an earthquake some time in the next thousand years,and I’ll bet there are dozens of well heeled investors who are willing to take the big risk and give VI’ers 10 cents on the dollar for their property.
A similar article to this ran at CBC last year,the comments were along the line of,”only a fool would live there”. When I rebutted the overtones of fear with the fact that this story has been repeated every slow News day since forever, I was met with comments such ads “you’re a damned idiot”,etc.
But when I offered to take anyone’s property for the aforementioned sum, there were,surprisingly, NO takers!
Damn! And I did SO want an ocean front mansion in Oak Bay!
Pacific Northwest? The only people concerned are Chinese.
Non-Mandarin need not apply is becoming mainstream in Vancouver.
http://www.theprovince.com/technology/mandarin+only+edict+splits+richmond+strata+council/11608387/story.html
In other words, famine, asteroid, Tsunami – who cares.
Don Morris nailed it.
A beer shortage, tsunami fearmongering and a drunk parrot – three winners in a row. It’s broke. I thought it was the media that had too many reporters.
Future NYT Headline:
HUGE TSUNAMI HITS PAC-NW
David Suzuki properties hardest hit.
I am getting my Airbnb advertisement all written-up … at government rates … here comes my EARLY retirement !!!! Woo hoo ! Come on o’sweet Ring of Fire !
“Cascadia’s Fault” is a good read for some background on the fledgling science of the plate tectonics of the Pacific NW.
It’s clear to me that they can only say that some day, something big’s gonna happen. When, what, where will remain anyone’s guess.
It’s tough to tell what’s going on 10km into the earth.
We remain, as always, mere gnats on the back of a great beast that is unaware of our existence.
But….. This won’t stop the Eco-fascists from someday using their honest belief in the power of their mighty deity “GOV” (all praise GOV) to “change the planet” – read: even more taxes, and less freedom – to “heal the earth”.
I’m sure they’ll blame fracking, climate change or both should it ever occur.
This sounds like something that a new tax could help mitigate.
Don’t float it past PM Selfie or we’ll all be paying earthquake insurance in the next budget.
Lotus Land is overdue for a major improvement.
They should just frack it out. Get it over with in a controlled fashion.
Okay,I have a serious question for you,one which will tell your true character: the tsunami has hit Vancouver Island and swamped our beloved Dr.Suzuki’s home.
You are out on your boat a day or so later,and you see Dr.Suzuki clinging to a piece of wreckage, BUT fast approaching are three huge sharks!
You have your trusty rifle,but only two bullets!
What should you do? 🙂
Turn around and go back for more ammo.
Question: are the sharks endangering ME ? If not, then it’s one bullet for each one of Suzuki’s hands clinging to the wreckage. Might as well give him a chance to drown (humanely) as opposed to getting ripped to death by the sharks.
A new study in the April 22 edition of Science reveals that volcanic activity associated with the plate-tectonic movement of continents may be responsible for climatic shifts from hot to cold over tens and hundreds of millions of years throughout much of Earth’s history.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421150056.htm
Yes, the climate changes, however humans are not causing it.
In this week’s edition of “Quirks and Quarks”, the lead item is about how “climate change” is responsible for the bleaching of coral in the south Pacific.
I swear, if it wasn’t for “climate change”, that program would either have to be reduced to half an hour or go off the air entirely. It certainly isn’t the same show it was 20 years ago.
Then again, the original host was Dr. Fruitfly himself. Some of the news items covered back then were, to put it mildly, rather tasteless.
Shoot two sharks.
I always enjoy one on one battles, though it might be a quick one. Oh, and a “good luck with that” would be my parting salutation
Q: How do people in the Pacific Northwest greet each other?
A: They wave!
Look at the bright side…surfing and swim lessons will get popular!
The Beach Boys ~ Surfin’ Safari (HQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMChBJZUDK8
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Save your ammo, it will be needed later.
Fire one round to warn the sharks of a predator in the water.
Never show up at a shark fight with a rifle and only two bullets: Go buy more ammo.
Obligatory rant: “bullets” ? You meant cartridges.
Yes,I did.As a long time reloader,I should know better.
This was a takeoff on an old joke that made the rounds when Kim Campbell was Justice Minister, and was pushing gun control HARD.
The joke: You are in a room with Muammar Ghaddafi,Idi Amin and Kim Campbell,you have a gun but only two cartridges. What should you do?
Answer: shoot Kim Campbell twice.
Good to see other here love Dr.Suzuki as much as I do.
Would not matter how many bullets I had. As soon as I was a little down wind I would shut off the engines and break out the beer and pop corn.
By the bye you might be surprised how quickly bullets loose energy in water. It would be the delicate shark much injured by a bullet which had passed through a foot of water.
Like in the opening to THUDAR THE BARBARIAN a big big tsunami to inadate San Francisco and Oakland with Newsrom and Ron(Red)Dellums there during their GAY PRIDE DAYS
Nutcase Julia(Butterfly)Hill wasnt the first to ever sit in a tree its just she got the lap dog press to cover her rediculous protest and she called the tree LUNA like lunatics like herself and her followers then someone went and sawed around the trees girth and how and the rest of the tree hugger idiots were whining
You use 1 bullet to shoot D Suzuki, the blood in the water attracts the sharks. Keep the other bullet in reserve.