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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (138175)	9/9/2005 9:11:51 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793570

There's no shortage of fools, it's true. Against my better judgment I once owned a house in the floodplain of a glacier fed river. It was that or an avalanche zone, and avalanches had already proven themselves whereas the glacier receded slowly. You can see pictures of what avalanches will do in National Geographic Vol 162, No. 3, September 1982. If you also look on page 319, you can see a picture of a forestry chap who spent his life making sure new forests got started so his grandchildren's grandchildren would have them. The chap and his superior officer are standing on a rim of a volcano that once existed so long ago that it took a very savvy geologist to detect that it was ever there. The story says nothing about that, but as a forestry chap I like to put things in time perspective. In other words, volcanos come and volcanos go. It's HOW OFTEN that determines whether you should be surprised when the inevitable happens. The periodicity of hurricanes is just a little bit different than that of volcanos. That's why I don't live within a thousand miles of hurricane alley. On the other hand, I DO live in the outflow zone of the Great Flood. vulcan.wr.usgs.gov If you hear rumors about another ice age, be sure and let me know.