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[Sumpter250]

Russ, I have visited San Diego, spent 10 weeks there in "company training". In less than a couple of weeks, by simply listening to locals talking, I learned that Southern California has a "cycle". It rains.....Every plant known to the area proliferates, and the the world is green. Then....The sun comes out and bakes everything into tinder. Then.....The fires come, and the land is stripped bare. Then. the rain comes again,and the hills turn to mud and slide into heaps of rock, house remains, and mud........and every plant known to the area proliferates again, and the world is green. Then....The sun.......
When you grow used to that, the earth does a dance like a bowl of Jello, on a table being jackhammered, to remind you that the land is unstable.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: Is simply living in Southern California, really worth putting up with all that??...or is it the "adrenalin rush". :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

and yeah, I grew up with hurricanes, and Nor'easters, and I now live in close proximity to tornadoes, and not quite far enough away from the New Madrid Fault, that changed the course of the Mississippi River.
I think that the only people who truly appreciate the value of a dollar, are the ones who don't have many of them.