Chief Technology Officer, CTO. Sometimes associated with IT, but my role is not. Not that new. There are a bunch of us.

I am an executive now, CTO, but engineer by education and practice. I work mostly in the socialist defense industry,

We always say rural Ohio is like living on a ranch, something is always flooding or power going out. This time it rained for days, the Miami River overflowed, flooding the East end of town. The neighbors tie into a tile which goes to our creek. The tile filled and overflowed flooding our driveway. Then the blowing wind blew the rain into the night light, taking it down and the Christmas lights when the ground fault breaker cut out. Finally, the rain was so constant, the temp. at 32, and the cold air exhaust from the heat pump resulted in the top grate freezing completely over, and we had to switch to strip heat. All in a day at the ranch.

"Don't Californicate Oregon" was a prevalent bumper sticker in the late '60s and '70s. The "Oregonians" who hate California the most are transplants from there.

Sounds delicious, Herb; and I wouldn't be surprised if they did. There will probably be a few around here too.

I love that word- I have a college friend at Caltech that's going to get a kick out of that.

Sounds about right.

Yes, which is why they are so concerned about it. The estimated tsunami height of the last event was over 100' high. Lewis and Clarke wrote about the state of the aborigines (Native Americans) east and west of the Rockies, noting that those west of the Rockies (on the tsunami side) were substantially less developed with far fewer permanent dwellings than those on the eastern side of the mountains. Here's some more information on the event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadi...

Here in Florida we get power outages a few times a year because we are the lightning capital of the USA.Two hours? Phffft. No Problemo. Often we get two days. It's sorta like enforced camping out. Ever eat cold canned soup? In the past 20 years they've gotten more efficient and most outages are short-lived. I expect there will be a few due to drunken fools crashing into poles carrying power lines tonight.

One of the best Paul Harvey radio stories was about some young women who, jaded at the New York dating scene, went to Alaska after learning there were many men and few women there.
Upon arriving, though, it didn't take long for them to realize that "while the odds were good, the goods were odd."

I woke up this morning to hail, then it started to snow. I have to love this state.

Our's has been unseasonably warm too; it's been in the 30s and 40s most of the time, which is unheard of for December-January.

Alaska's quite amazing, especially if you're an outdoorsy person. What do you do for work?

"Geological evidence indicates that such great earthquakes have occurred at least seven times in the last 3,500 years, a return interval of 400 to 600 years."
https://pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakes...

That's funny. Not a bad idea, but would we be able to fit all of them in that area?

By federal law, retirement pensions can not be taxed by any state except the one you live in. If these people are paying California income tax, they are entitled to a refund. See page 3 of https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2014/14_...

What? No its a double dog d_ldo (that will probably get me banned for a day) - two male ends plugged into an outlet

All the way to the Rockies is a big stretch. The Columbia River basin and much of eastern Washington was repeatedly scoured out by the Missoula floods at the end of the last ice age.