|
|
| Do you live in a disaster prone area? |
| Yes |
|
36% |
[ 7 ] |
| No |
|
63% |
[ 12 ] |
|
| Total Votes : 19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:40 pm
So anyways, we're talking about the Mississippi changing direction in my Geography class. According to my teacher, it's going to go straight down from around the confluence of the Red and Mississippi once a big earthquake hits. This will get the US some major economic problems, since whenever it does move, it won't be deep enough for ships to go through. In fact, the Mississippi is so important that the Corps of Engineers spends more money dredging it each year than on any of their other things.
Anyways, the point of this topic is natural disasters, and how they've affected the various nations throughout history. List and discuss how severe they were, and if certain ones could be avoided 3nodding
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:02 pm
...Wow. The Mississippi changing direction? eek
Anyway, I can only think of two off the top of my head: the San Fransisco earthquakes in '89 and, I think (?), 1909; and Vesuvius erupting over Pompeii in ancient Rome. I think volcanoes have actually been really destructive throughout history--but they do preserve the past for archaeologists.
sweatdrop
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:22 pm
blue_icicle ...Wow. The Mississippi changing direction? eek Yeah, supposedly this has happened three or four times before.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:27 pm
*California*
Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:29 pm
Caffeine Pirate Nyx *California* Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked. *California, too* Oh, and floods! Like, Noah's Ark? That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a flood. sweatdrop *breathes life into guild*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:13 pm
blue_icicle Caffeine Pirate Nyx *California* Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked. *California, too* Oh, and floods! Like, Noah's Ark? That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a flood. sweatdrop *breathes life into guild*Life in guild?!?! REALLY!?!?!? (These are the first posts I've seen in a while...WOW.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:17 pm
tgas blue_icicle Caffeine Pirate Nyx *California* Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked. *California, too* Oh, and floods! Like, Noah's Ark? That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a flood. sweatdrop *breathes life into guild*Life in guild?!?! REALLY!?!?!? (These are the first posts I've seen in a while...WOW.) Invite people domokun or tell me to invite them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:54 am
blue_icicle Caffeine Pirate Nyx *California* Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked. *California, too* Oh, and floods! Like, Noah's Ark? That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a flood. sweatdrop *breathes life into guild*
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:38 pm
blue_icicle tgas blue_icicle Caffeine Pirate Nyx *California* Like Blicey said, the 1909, 1989 earthquakes. A ton of damage, and aftereffects... sucked. *California, too* Oh, and floods! Like, Noah's Ark? That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for a flood. sweatdrop *breathes life into guild*Life in guild?!?! REALLY!?!?!? (These are the first posts I've seen in a while...WOW.) Invite people domokun or tell me to invite them. I would if they cared about history...but see, they don't.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:14 pm
tgas I would if they cared about history...but see, they don't. ... sad stressed ' @Aya: Small world. o_O;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 11:34 am
blue_icicle tgas I would if they cared about history...but see, they don't. ... sad stressed ' @Aya: Small world. o_O;
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 9:53 pm
I'm a legal resident of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Flood of '97. Half the town underwater. National disaster. National guard. The works. Thankfully, I didn't move there until 2000.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:35 pm
XD And seeing as I live close to Blicey there are earthquakes. Before I lived in Florida. Luckily we moved a year before all the hurricanes but it was stressful with friends and family living over there. And everytime it rained (2 times a day in spring and summer) our old backyard would flood about a foot or two high. And somehow fish got in. (We don't know how the hell they did >>;; There was no water nearby for them to swim from) O___o;; But after one hurricane we came back and apparently the soil had gotten too soggy in the rain so trees started to fall down. It was a bit wierd. I went outside to look at our backyard, went inside, and 5 minutes later a tree fell where I had been standing. And broke the deck and such. *chatters on* But hurricanes=bad. I haven't been in many earthquakes yet. 3 slight tremors tops and one while I was practically asleep so I don't have much to say about them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:10 pm
We just get a lot of tornadoes around here. But we recover from those pretty quickly. I think earthquakes probably do the most to change the course of a nation's history.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:55 pm
I'm not really in a disaster-risk zone, other than the occaisonal blizzard in the winter. I am close to Winnipeg though where we had that huge flood back in '97. That's about it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
