Eve Opener!!!

[theGinsue]

Well I think we have always been eye to eye, just don't look up at the satellites watching us!

By Executive Order 12333, those satelites have to keep their lenses facing OUTSIDE of the U.S. borders, unless........

Any of you have reason to suspect that you might be on a DHS watch list?

[theGinsue]

Exactly what I'll have for my "Look, we're still here!!" party.

Oh, just 'cuz Y2K was nothing but hype you think that relying on centuries old calendars from long lost civilizations {Mayans, civilized?} can't possibly bear the fruit of total devastation? Geesh! How narrow-minded of you.

[theGinsue]

You mean the neighbor who plays the stereo at high decibals all night long while yelling and beating his wife? The one who's mouth would make a sailor blush? The kids who don't have respect for anyone and who trash teh house, scratch the cars, pick fights, have a rap sheet, and are generally a nuisance to society? Yes, I could take food from them.

hehehe

Oh; snap! I forgot about those little sh!theads!

[Irving]

I took a class about natural disasters in college and our professor was telling us about people down south having Hurricane Parties. Basically, they all just go to an apartment on the top floor and party during the huricane while other people flee in fear. For the most part that is okay, but she showed us the before and after pictures of a 6 story apartment complex that wasn't quite so lucky. The after pictures literally looked like a vacant parking lot. The highest piece of material was not much taller than a concrete parking block. The storm swell was like 30 feet or something.

She was the crotchety old lady that would talk shit about how stupid people are during natural disasters (filming a tornado while standing in front of a plate glass picture window, hurricane parties, etc). She really enjoyed telling the story about how when the people throwing that hurricane party on the 6th floor of that party found out it was too late, most of them died. One lady put her husband onto a mattress (he couldn't swim) pushed him out the side of the hole in the wall, and then never saw him again.

Thinking of that class reminds me. You know what the three major natural disasters of Colorado are? Tornadoes, Hail, and Expanding Clay.
Yep, clay. I've never heard of that before, or since that class.

[theGinsue]

You know what the three major natural disasters of Colorado are? Tornadoes, Hail, and Expanding Clay.
Yep, clay. I've never heard of that before, or since that class.

?? WTF?? I've gotta look up "expanding clay". That's a new one on me.

ETA: My quick Google search revealed MANY sites on expanding clay, but nothing looked like anything that I could consider a "natural disaster" to any degree.

[Irving]

Apparently, in the Denver metro area, there is clay in the ground that expands when it is soaked with water. It is considered a natural hazard because it can crack foundations and cause a lot of expensive damage. At least that's what she told us. Could easily be old info.

[Mtn.man]

bentonite clay can cause a house to lift or sink and ruin it.
That's why they have those commercials to fix your house and foundation.
Highlands ranch is built on the stuff.

[68Charger]

When I lived in Phoenix, they called this "Expansive soil".. but it was pretty much clay that did this..

saw it first hand- house across the street got a leak in their pool... it had an auto-fill valve to keep it topped up, so they didn't notice, until the crack appeared in the ceiling of their house...

by the time it stopped shifting, there was about a 2" gap in the ceiling, and about a 1" crack in the floor caused by the expansion... they were afraid the house was going to have to be torn down..