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Skriven 2013-06-25 14:43:04 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Hanschka
Ärende: Weather
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-=> RUTH HANSCHKA wrote to DALE SHIPP <=-

 -> Or where hurricanes are prevalent -- but Florida is full of trailer
 -> parks, many of which are mounted on cinder blocks.

 RH> That, as they say, is nuts.  I think if I lived in Tornado Alley I'd be
 RH> tempted to build a house underground and solve the problem that way.
 RH> That won't work in Florida, but those trailer homes turn into box kites
 RH> when the winds hit.

I *do* live in tornado alley. And I *do* live in a mobile home. And I have
never, ever had a problem. After moving into this tin can I was pretty nervous
when I first heard the sirens going outside the 1st Tuesday of the month test.
I had always heard the urban legends about trailer parks being tornado magnets.
But, y'know what? They are just that - urban legends.

The people in Florida take their chances. But a hurricane with 150MPH winds
doesn't care if it's a mobile home, a palatial manse, or one of those swamp rat
things on stilts that's in the path. As with a divorce, someone is going to
lose a house.

It's the same with the idjits and retards in Californica who build on steep
hillsides and then cry when they get wiped out after the hill decides to become
part of the valley. I class their intelligence with that of the spiders who
build their webs in a downspout. 

In March of 2006 my town got criss-crossed by a pair of F2 tornadoes. In 2009
we got whammered again. Damage in my trailer park? Zippadee Doo Dah.

Heck, where I was born and spent the first twelve years of my life, the sports
teams of the local high-school are named the "Tornadoes". And with good reason.
In 1950 a tornado there killed my neighbour's house and ripped out our back
fence. And didn't ruffle a shingle on the roof. It did, however, drive green
grass into the side of an oak tree, embedding it in the bark. Also a 1" X 8"
pine board that went completely through that same 3' plus diameter trunk.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Hurricane
 Categories: Beverages, Booze, Fruits, Citrus
      Yield: 1 servings
 
      1 oz Dark rum
      1 oz Light rum
    1/2 oz Galliano
      2 oz Passion fruit syrup
    1/2 oz Orange juice
      1    Rose's lime juice
      1    Pineapple juice
 
  Recipe by: Joe Robertson

  Fill a mixing glass with cracked ice. Add rum, Galliano,
  passion fruit syrup, and orange juice. Shake and strain
  into highball or Collins glass filled with ice cubes. Top
  with a splash of Rose's lime juice and a splash of
  pineapple juice.
 
  From: http://www.recipesource.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

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