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[ChickenCanoe]

I don't know either but I think that is what the potential super volcano at Yellowstone is, a thin area.

update
When my daughter did her jungle trek to the other side of the island, she wrongly assumed it would be a relatively flat hike. Turns out there were small cliffs and one she had to rappel by ropes along the trail. She broke both her sandals and at the bottom she discovered a sandal graveyard. She had to go the rest of the way and return barefooted.

She's back on the mainland to get a visa for travel to Vietnam. She said it would have been $150 and taken 2 weeks to do it here. In Cambodia, it was $60 and took 5 hours.

So she'll soon be heading there for 3 weeks.

 

[Cynthia12]

Sounds like a blast traveling all around. Does she have to worry about .. oh..water..food..anything that can make her sick out there?

 

[Arielle]

I don't know either but I think that is what the potential super volcano at Yellowstone is, a thin area.

update
When my daughter did her jungle trek to the other side of the island, she wrongly assumed it would be a relatively flat hike. Turns out there were small cliffs and one she had to rappel by ropes along the trail. She broke both her sandals and at the bottom she discovered a sandal graveyard. She had to go the rest of the way and return barefooted.

She's back on the mainland to get a visa for travel to Vietnam. She said it would have been $150 and taken 2 weeks to do it here. In Cambodia, it was $60 and took 5 hours.

So she'll soon be heading there for 3 weeks.

We are over charged for everything!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sounds like a blast traveling all around. Does she have to worry about .. oh..water..food..anything that can make her sick out there?

All I know is that she hasn't worried about anything. She called and talked to my wife for about 40 minutes last night. She said that all the girls she's met were either travelling in pairs, trios or with guys. Almost no girls travelling alone. Prior to this trip, she spent a couple months alone travelling Europe. When she's ready to go, she usually doesn't know anyone with the time, money and desire to go. She doesn't let that stop her.
I'm afraid she got that from me.

 

[Cynthia12]

In the low 60's yesterday, low 30's this morning and snowing. That's our weather for you..back and forth until around May.

 

[ozexpat]

Sounds like a blast traveling all around. Does she have to worry about .. oh..water..food..anything that can make her sick out there?

the trick to not getting sick when you travel is to drink bottled water but eat what the locals eat.

its when you try and eat non traditional foods you get in trouble as the locals have less knowledge on maintaining the food. the only time i have gotten sick in asia was on a hamburger

 

[ronott1]

Information on Crescent City Tsunamis:

The city is located on the Pacific coast in the upper northwestern part of California, about 20 miles (32 km) from the Oregon border. Crescent City's offshore geography makes it unusually susceptible to tsunamis.[12] Much of the city was destroyed by four tsunami waves generated by the Good Friday Earthquake off Anchorage, Alaska in 1964. More recently, the city's harbor suffered extensive damage and destruction due to tsunamis generated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake off Sendai, Japan. Several dozen vessels and many of the docks they were moored to were destroyed as wave cycles related to the tsunamis exceeded 8 feet (2.4 m).

Tsunamis



Battery Point Lighthouse, viewed from jetty


Crescent City's jetty
The topography of the sea floor surrounding Crescent City has the effect of focusing tsunamis. According to researchers at Humboldt State University and the University of Southern California, the city experienced tsunami conditions 31 times between the years 1933 and 2008.[25] Although many of these incidents were barely perceptible, eleven events included wave measurements exceeding one meter, four events caused damage, and one event in particular is commonly cited as "the largest and most destructive recorded tsunami to ever strike the United States Pacific Coast."[5]
On 27 March 1964, the Good Friday Earthquake off Anchorage, Alaska, set in motion local landslide tsunamis, as well as a trans-Pacific wave. The tsunami wave travel time to Crescent City was 4.1 hours after the earthquake, but it only produced localized flooding.[26] The second and third waves to hit Crescent City were both smaller than the first wave, but the fourth wave struck with a height of approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) after having drawn the harbor out nearly dry.[26] The next morning the damage was counted: 289 buildings and businesses had been destroyed; 1000 cars and 25 large fishing vessels crushed; 12 people were confirmed dead, over 100 were injured, and more were missing; 60 blocks had been inundated with 30 city blocks destroyed in total. Although most of the missing were later accounted for, not all were tracked down. Insurance adjusters estimated that the city received more damage from the tsunami on a block-by-block basis than did Anchorage from the initial earthquake.[27]
The tsunami raced down the U.S. West Coast with more deaths and destruction, but no location was hit as hard. Crescent City bore the brunt, due to its offshore geography, position relative to the earthquake’s strike-line, underwater contours such as the Cobb Seamount, and the position of rivers near the city.[28] Although houses, buildings, and infrastructure were later rebuilt, years passed before the city recovered from the devastation to lives, property, and its economy.
The city is deemed to be tsunami-ready today. Its preparedness was tested on 14 June 2005 when an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit 90 miles (140 km) offshore; much of the city was evacuated in a matter of 20 minutes when a tsunami warning was issued, but no waves were reported.[29]
On 15 November 2006, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck off Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands in the western Pacific. A tsunami warning was issued but rescinded hours later. However, a surge from that quake did hit the harbor at Crescent City causing damage to three docks and several boats. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a county state of emergency. Upon that declaration, the area affected was eligible for federal emergency relief funding to repair the damage.[30][31]

Parts of the city were evacuated on 11 March 2011, after a 9.0 earthquake struck Japan.[32][33] Thirty-five boats were destroyed, and the harbor suffered major damage.[34][35] The reported peak surge was over 8 feet (2.4 m) by 9:50am.[36] Five were swept out to sea, and one person killed.[37][34][38
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[insanity]

It amazes me that quake did so much damage so far away from Alaska. My mother told me about when it hit (she was 14 and living in Anchorage). According to what she told me it was sink holes and the waves that caused the most damage not the actual quake.When we lived in Anchor Point she always warned us that if it was a real strong shaker to head for higher ground.

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Awesome weekend...went from a day time high of -25C (-13F) to +15C (59F)...having a heat wave (hardly, try 40C/104F in the summer here!) but we'll take what we can. Hate the heat, can't work in it.

Lots of melt, slower than if it happened in the rainy month of June, but such is life as the seasons roar in to change. Laughed as the weather person announced chance of a thunderstorm...WHAT? Yeh, why have a mild transition, get us all ready for summer in one fell swoop...bring on the thunder and lightening--didn't outright kill you with snow and ice...how about an electrical zap to get the heart stopped.

Always, always SO extreme here. So suck it up buttercup, eh?

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Had a great Sunday brunch of hotcakes and sausage...

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Then a nice greeny veggy fruity prelude to dinner. Course the Mandarins could be heard whistling their approvals..."Don't forget to give us the rinds with some melon attached too!" I can hear their bills clacking in anticipation to make pelts outta the melon.


Love weekends--more time for fun things around the place.

Ground is bare in places where Rick keeps the drive plowed off--can see the gravel peeping thru...ice in the bird yard, but so what is a little skating about to amuse the birds with? I am sure they place bets on how hard I fall...buggers!

Gonna take a bit of time for the swan yard to melt out...here it is now, that's snowshoe hare Krusty's prints in the yard...been zipping about all over the place....blends in well with the white backdrop. Better start thinking about a furry colour change soon...






Here it is in the summer...nicely mowed up.




Drastic dif, eh?


My father was a faller, bragged like the dickens he had NEVER EVER had a drop of oil put in the oil tank to run the furnace in the house he built...a wood/oil combination. This was on the WEsT Coast...humidity was so high you froze yer buns off my Dears...frozen solid...a wet humid cold...at -5C (23F), felt like -40C/F here in drier Alberta...but none the less...I learned early, to love heat from a fire, real heat from a wood stove. Nothing finer to warm yer innards after a long day doing chores outside...come in and warm you up.

So I love wood, fire wood...the bounty of security it means...means you are not going to freeze yer kahoonas off...we all got kahoonas and like to keep them where is--as is, thanks!

So my hero designed up a wall of wood holder.

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Love these, so easy to use; so easy to fill, so easy to UNfill. That's Vanna White, aka Fixins there.

Piece of cord in the top with holes drilled and this wall of wood is ready to be taken out, placed and filled on up.

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Twenty one walls of wood, filled them all up last year...big push but got 'er done. I love being surrounded by the bounty of firewood...me walls of wood...nothing finer.


So the wood stove has been blasting continuous since September...of my 21 walls of wood, working on my 8th depletion. Got me chomping at the bit to get the split birch on the walls, fill up my slots again.

I LOVE firewood...better than money in the bank & like gold in a vault...I LOVE my walls. Gives me that twinge every time I see them, standing there, air drying, firewood ready & waiting to be loaded up and hauled into the man porch and the house for burning. Royal riches of simple existence...

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So last year (not this winter but the one prior, 20 winter of 2012/2013) Rick was working in an area where they had cut down a bunch of birch trees for a pipeline right of way.

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Sad really...some of these trees were HUGE (in some cases, two rounds filled a pickup truck box!)...monsters for birch, but such is what happens. So better than leaving this birch to lay and rot, Rick would cut a load after work and haul it home. I would unload and stack it, ready to be split when there was time for that.

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These were the piles of rounds as of September 2013. A lot of rounds thar...now they needed to be split...

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So Sept to October, was the Split Fest on the birch. Always ready to help, Fixins made sure her toy was close at hand...cause when you stop splitting, well you jest gotta....jest gotta...

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Gotta throw the toy...if you can throw the toy, you are not too wounded yet...not too... Fixins l00ks SO serious about this toy...you must throw toy! I have to make sure you have not overdone it...can't have you too tired to share yer dinner with me....if you can't toss toy, Dog says it is "QUITTING TIME!"

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So bucket by tractor bucket of splits, the rounds of birch got done...done like it could cook yer dinner if you wanna...

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Up the hill went the tractor with its buckets full of splits, where I tidy it up into really BIG piles--running outta room piles of splits...could not load up any more walls of wood because, well all 21 were jammed full. So had to have WINTER, a good Canuck winter to burn off some of them walls of wood.

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What makes me so excited about the nice melty weather...these piles of splits...well now that we got empty walls of wood, EIGHT...to fill now--can get on that! A great White North cold winter has done her job...now I can fill my walls...how delish!

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So this is the same shot as the pic above, only its been thru a winter here. But the sun is shining, the snow and ice is a melting....

What better time to be had than to be stacking the birch, the gold bricks of potential heat!

So today, you see how Fixins is laughing...laughing..."So you wanna pile up wood, get stacking those walls up do you?"

Gotta bring a mallet, give a few of the splits a good smack to loosen them, but planning on doing a wall or so a day after me chores...should be a blast. No bugs, not hot, just right, wonderbar!

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Empty walls of wood jest a waitin'...waiting on me to fill them up, pile it high and pile it good...so the Chinook winds may blow, blow and dry the birch splits out...for burning...magnificent heat.

Oh my, Fixins is already yawning...plum tired out the OLD dog...so time for old inspector dawg to head in for a nap, where else does one nap but beside the wood stove...poor dog...so has to rowf it, eh?

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[kingfrodo]

the trick to not getting sick when you travel is to drink bottled water but eat what the locals eat.

its when you try and eat non traditional foods you get in trouble as the locals have less knowledge on maintaining the food. the only time i have gotten sick in asia was on a hamburger

I've never traveled so when I read that it makes total sense.

You just blew my mind.