Cyli:
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.

Growing up I read Allan Danzig's short story, the Great Nebraska Sea. It
has always been more of a warning than amusement to me. Now its also fodder
for folksingers. Lyrics are linked below

Living in MO, the New Madrid fault was all too real and made its presence
known with more or less subtle reminders that the quakes of 1811 were
tremendous in scope. In 1976, a 4.2 quake centered near Blytheville AR,
at town that currently sits 9 feet below the Mississippi River as a result
of subsidance in 1811, caused the elevator I was in at a hospital in St.
Louis to sway and its breakers to trip. The radial distance was about 250
miles. In 1990, there was a quake guru who predicted a major event on the
New Madrid fault. Every hospital in MO was directed to take precautions to
quake proof as far as possible. We bought every inch of velcro available in
town to strap all of our lab equipment to the benches. When I left that
facility, it was still untested.

When I answered the wrong ad and wound up living in Blytheville AR for a
time, there was one other fault related item that amused me. A
fundamentalist group from S. California had picked up and moved en masse
from CA to Caruthersville MO. According to their leader, God had promised
to destroy CA by earthquake and had directed them to Caruthersville MO for
safety. Cartuthersvilles sits sqaurely astride the New Madrid Fault.

http://www.efn.org/~bch/songs/nebraskasealyr.html

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm