Difference is, with earthquakes, there's nowhere to hide. The trick in
"tornado alley" is simple. Stay out of trailer parks!
(Same goes for garage-locating strategy)
-Alfred
At 10:49 AM 12/11/97 PST, you wrote:
>Jim Hayes wrote:
>> Bill Dalton wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a cousin who lives in Mountain View. He reports that the ground
>> > shakes out there occasionally.
>>
>> Gee, does that mean that those unfortunate souls out in CA cannot leave
>> their cars up on jackstands during the off season. Isn't that hard on
>> race tires???
>
>My solution is to pack so much junk around the car it has nowhere to go
>to get off the stands. ;=)
>
>People in California are used to an occasional shake. Unless there's a
>big one, which doesn't happen all that often, the amount of damage each
>year is small. Tornado Alley, OTOH, is absolutely frightening to
>Californians. What do people in the Midwest do with their race cars? Put
>them in root cellars? ;=)
>
>You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.
>
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