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If you can find and remove all the VIN plates as well. Otherwise expect a bill.

Plus you really have to put a few hundred bucks in to get it checked over for safety before driving. A broken ball joint or tie-rod end or a seized wheel bearing will spoil your whole day.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Just don't buy a Benz or BMW with over 150k from the past 15 years at ANY PRICE or you will know the meaning of pain from the new "luxury" bullshit.

We need the Mississippi River for commerce, so we need a port there. A port needs people to work, they need a city to live in, and the port needs various services that are based nearby.

Raising the land never seemed to get any consideration.

The problem with New Orleans, and a lot of other cities, is that building levees and pumping out ground water causes subsidance. Apparent sea level goes up because the land is going down. "Anthropogenic soil subsidence."

California's Central Valley is sinking too, because so many farms are pumping groundwater to grow almonds and cotton and rice in, basically, a desert.

In some of the pacific islands residents are complaining that the land is sinking and that their electric-pumped water wells are getting salty.

The soil has become so compacted it is estimated the central valley ground water aquifers couldn't recharge for another 1.000 years.

Oh, they tried that in 1811-1812 back around New Madrid.

It got a lot of people upset. Having the Mississippi river run backwards for a while, played hell with the ferry schedules.

The farmland is salting up too.

We can live without almonds, but they are big-buck export crops.

fredag den 3. september 2021 kl. 21.15.09 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

We like the Thai Jasmine rice. Makes regular rice taste bland.

Vancouver's trouble might come from having, what is it, 5 active volcanoes nearby? Whistler, Garibaldi, Golden Ears, Baker, and iirc another one.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs (most of whose family still lives there)

Some sources extend it down to Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

Galveston was raised after the great 1900 storm, average about 10 feet.

I've sat on the great seawall at galveston. Lotta concrete.

It killed about 8,000 people - the worst natural disaster in US history. Anthropogneic global warming may deliver something more dramatic before too long.

America isn't good at maintaining it's infra-structure, and even less good at anticipating potential disasters.

Katrina should have been a wake-up call. Ida suggests that it didn't register.

Well, the whole island was swept clean IIRC, which would make that easier. :(

If you have to build a 30-foot levee, there isn't much point in building anything but high-rises near the beach.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs