Places on Earth where you probably shouldn't build a house

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  1. Bushman5

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    why are we not designing steam turbine power generating systems that we can put into the lava lakes....? :)
     
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    There's a city, Rejevik, Iceland I think, where there is either no heating bill or no electrical bill ever. They have tapped into geo therm volcanic vents to run the turbines. Now I'm not saying I would'nt like not getting an electric bill every month....but I don't think I'd like having my house parked on to of an active volcano either! ;)
     
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    There are inherit risks no matter where you live. It’s up to you to decide if the risk is worth it. I’d rather have the sporadic twister and much more common blizzard the fire coming from underground or hurricanes. That’s my choice though.
     
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    I love living here.

    Nobody wants to move here because they think it either is full of tornadoes or they think it is nothing but flat and wind.

    Fun part is both are true and false, just depends on where you are standing.
     
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    Lived in SW Idaho (Treasure Valley) four years. Floods if you lived along the Boise River, and other than being a few hundred miles from Yellowstone, things were very stable.
    15 years in east TN, occasionally a tornado brushes the TV. One minor tremor a few years ago.
     
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    BTW I like me .357s.
     
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    This just in ...

    PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - A massive new fissure opened on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, hurling bursts of rock and magma with an ear-piercing screech on Sunday as it threatened nearby homes within a zone where authorities had just ordered an evacuation.

    The fissure, a vivid gouge of magma with steam and smoke pouring out both ends, was the 17th to open on the volcano since it began erupting on May 3. Dozens of homes have been destroyed and hundreds of people forced to evacuate in the past 10 days.

    As seen from a helicopter, the crack appeared to be about 1,000 feet (300 meters) long and among the largest of those fracturing the side of Kilauea, a 4,000-foot-high (1,200-meter-high) volcano with a lake of lava at its summit.

    "It is a near-constant roar akin to a full-throttle 747 interspersed with deafening, earth-shattering explosions that hurtle 100-pound (45-kg) lava bombs 100 feet (30 meters) into the air," said Mark Clawson, 64, who lives uphill from the latest fissure and so far is defying an evacuation order.
     
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    What caliber for 45 kg lava bombs from 30 m?
     
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    No matter where you are, there's something that wants to "recycle" you. :). Here it's flooding or tornados. Every year as long as I can remember, "Oh my god! It's raining! It's the END of the WORLD!"
     
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    ^ <snickers> ^

    i just keep sharpening
    my smallest 4 on a diamond stone
    • tdi
    • izula
    • necker
    • zancudo
    pics? maybe later :oops:
     
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    Exactly! Oklahoma has everything from swamps to mountains. thick timber land to sand dunes. we have around 9 diferrent ecoregions making Oklahoma one of the most biodiverse states in the country.
     
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    A fine way to deal with the inevitable sea-level rise.
     
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    Uh oh ... musique crept in .. :confused:

     
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    Hahaha, I actually listen to them regularly.
     
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    Part of the price of being a yuppie with a view.
    BTW volcanic bombs are by definition molten lava that is ejected. In Hawaii the eruptions are low viscosity basalt with minimal volatiles, so bombs are mostly limited to where the lava first reaches the surface and off gases CO2, H2O, etc. If volcanic bombs are a problem than you are at ground zero and not stopping anything, but feel free to piss straight into the wind if you want.
     
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    Imagine forging some steel in lava......
     
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    @JHansenAK47, you sound like you have some knowledge of geology. Are you open to questions? I'm a biologist/ecologist, but still hope to be a geologist when I grow up ... if I ever grow up ... which at this point is doubtful. :confused:
     
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    By all means. Why in the hell would anyone want to live in NYC?
    Even brokers can work remote.
    Fun place to visit, wouldn't want to be caught there at the onset of WWZ.
    For now I'm sticking with east TN.
     
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