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Oregon Needs To Be More Like Japan

Postby Mulboyne » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:10 pm

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Register-Guard: Legends and lessons: Japan teaches its history with disasters and taps its technological prowess to prepare for the next big one
...Japan is widely regarded as the best-prepared country for tsunamis and earthquakes in the world, with a vigilance that combines the reflections of the past with the technology of today - at a cost of billions of dollars...When geologists and emergency managers in Oregon consider the peril that faces our own coast, they frequently point east. As geologist George Priest puts it, "We need to be like the Japanese."...It's daunting to think that people in the United States could ever "be like the Japanese" in preparing for earthquakes and tsunamis. But there are lessons to learn from this ancient country...more...
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Postby Charles » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:25 pm

The hell with that, Oregon needs to be more like the USA.
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Postby GuyJean » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:46 pm

Charles wrote:The hell with that, Oregon needs to be more like the USA.
No thanks. I'll take my euthanasia and medicinal marijuana over the Christian Exodus anyday..

Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

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Postby Charles » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:22 pm

GuyJean wrote:Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

Portland neonazis.
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Postby GuyJean » Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:21 pm

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GuyJean wrote:Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

Portland neonazis.
:lol: All five of them? North-eastern Oregon is the home of the cracker-land.. Most of Portland is ganja smokin' youthin-Asians.

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Postby den4 » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:01 am

hmmm....when I was still a gaijin in japan, my contacts kept telling me that Japan's superior earthquake disaster preparations were so good that when a big jishin like the one that hit San Francisco came, they would have no problems...then Kobe came :roll: yup....they were prepared all right :lol:
try or try not...there is no do......
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