On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:06:09 -0400, "Tim J."
wrote:


"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...
woke me at shortly after one o'clock this morning.
"Hm........earthquake," thinks I. I went back to sleep.

Having an earthquake in the Midwest puts an entirely different perspective on
things. Will everything west of Milwaukee slide into the Pacific, or will
Milwaukee have beach front property on the Atlantic? Hmmm. . .


I've been wondering what a really good one would do to some of the
Great Lakes and the rivers near them? What if Lake Michigan decides
to flow down to meet the 'Sippi? What if Lake Superior cracks just a
bit and starts to empty down the St. Croix river?

And the cities? Eeek! The Midwest has never built with earthquakes
in mind. Chicago would be, uh, twisted and shattered. And they
thought that when Nachez Under the Hill (the local slum, I gather)
became a literal name it was a disaster. It'd be a worse one in these
days.

Up here in St. Paul my daughter noticed the one that happened in
Columbia in South America. I didn't because I was sleeping and
because our house was built on the kind of ground that shook when kids
ran through the yard for a short cut. Another one on the New Madrid
could be more interesting than rattling all the stuff in the
cupboards.

Somewhere on the Web is a site showing all the faults in the middle of
the country. To no one's surprize, it concentrates in the Mississippi
River valley and some of its tributaries. Hmm. Think that's how it
got to be the Mississippi River Valley? Some of us might not wind up
with ocean front, but there might be a very much wider river in the
end. Once it settled down from bursting through all the dams and
levees that'd be at least strained by a good 'quake.
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