Termyn8or
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DA, you better stop agreening with me and/or supporting my point or people will think you are crazy as well.
You got your Mog, hasn't it come to you ? You certainly did not pick these people up in your Eddie Bauer. They just came, they relocated.
Now there had to be some contingent of people living there who have marketable skills and most likely don't live in the Mog. You never hear about them, who knows where they are off to, tending to their business and building a life. What you hear about is those who are left.
People who can't make it without the "superstructure" if that word is correct, of their hometown, or at least somewhere they have been a while. People without truly marketable skills are vulnerable to this sort of thing. I might be among them. I have a job offer in Reno right now that I am not taking. Should I give up living rent free and just paying taxes and insurance and of course the rest ? Should I leave an area where I know the speed traps, the ins and outs and who is who ? That would have to be one hell of a job.
But then it would definitely be on the table if I got home from work to a pile of ashes. Just take the insurance money and go, fuck it. You could do the same. Or, in our case we can decide to rebuild. There was a thread on here that put forth we should not even waste the money to rebuild that area, and they actually made a pretty good point.
That has been brought up before also, about all the insurance cos bailing and the gov left holding the bag, and shelling out our tax money. NOT rebuilding certain areas has indeed been discussed even before the internet. Yup before Al gore.
But I digress. [smacks self in head]. If you have a house with insurance you have at least some equity. If the damage is severe, you can walk away and on top of whatever else your homeowner's insurance covers, you get your equity. Now insurance down there might be different because because of these conditions, but up here, if it is a total loss it is razed and you get everything except about ten percent for the actual land, because of course it is still there, well it would be.
Down there MAYBE IT AIN'T ! I ain't too pleased with myself that I had a chuckle over that, but yup, the insurance might have to pay for the land, unless the policy is written that they absolutely do not insure the land.
So some people can put a check for a hundred grand in the bank from insurance and basically have a bit of an edge. They will have enough for food gas car repairs rent. All this must be maintained while one finds their next acceptable job.
Nice little nest egg and if you play your cards right, get that job, hopefully you'll have a bunch leftover for a downstroke on a house.
But a renter has a whole different story. Renters insurance is nowhere near as good as homeowner's, especially if it is owner occupied. They get contents, and if they have off street parking maybe their car. Now if they lost all this shit, they would literally have nothing, but a check. Once it boils down to their stereo and biscreen were from rentacenter, they get to relocate on two or three grand.
Now that area was a cultural area of sorts, as such there was tourism, and the business resultant of course. They made money, local businesses, and even the chains. Up and down the road there is always somewhere to eat, and in each one of those places must be a certain amount of employees, depending on their scale of operation.
All those people were working people, and everything they worked for is gone. Even people who owned businesses might habitate the Mog. They might have had a slow time or just had too much tied up in projects and got caught with their hands full. Of problems I mean. Forty bucks in your pocket, lucky to have a car right now but it needs gas. Shit, the bank where I made the deposit yesterday is under fucking water. And let's say this business owner, pillar of the community all that, was renting.
With the semi-dense population ther were surely many apartments. Those people rent. Ninety nine percent of the time if they get hit by a flood they have nothing, right then and there. Not even a car. Even if the Nationwide guy is there that night with a check, it means shit.
Some have the gumption to get out, and it might just be a matter of time. That will leave the rest. There are still people in this country able to excel, but some of them have just had a big hard noodle shoved up their ass.
And in any society, there are always dregs. So there is going to be X percentage of them. Hey, perhaps they sent them to Texas for sterilization or something. Geez, I really have to quit going on these tangents.
Anyway. What if NYC flooded ? It would be a stretch but it could happen. Think of all those people in the highrises who then can't leave. Stuck.
You know the Arctic ice is melting. With a bit of physics under my belt, first of all the biggest thing to worry about is not sea level. We are losing ground, that is a fact, but it is happening quite slowly and chicken littles forget it. Physics, only one sixth of a piece of ice is on top of the water level. That means it only increases the body of water's volume by one sixth, and actually a bit lees because ice is one of the few substances in the world that actually expands when it freezes.
But my concern,well not really, but for the sake of statement. My concern is that the polar ice mass as it melts will eventually crack in half, or into maybe a few more pieces. Realize the stresses put on this mass by the rotation of the planet. The polar ice mass splitting would be a BIG BIG problem. The centripetal force would drive these chards of ice southward, of course because it is the only direction to go. This centripetal (used to be called centrigufal) force will cause tidal waves and these waves will emanate from the north.
By the time it gets down here I might experience a power outage, but if that were to happen it would be very concievable that NYC could flood.
Some people might try to argue physics on this, but I will take care of that now. I know that the centripetal force is very minimal, but it is real. Once anyting really big breaks off, as it travcels south this centripetal force, while still miniscukle, is constant, and it acts just like gravity. In relation to Earth there are a few equations that need to be turned upside down, but you get the idea. These "continents of ice", possibly as big as Greenland have alot of mass. Now the force might be small, but the mass is great. So using compliance,
gm/g.
G is the force, gravity is all balanced. The centripetal is G, but is a relitive G. These things would start way up north of course, but with the outward G force increasing logarythmiacally, They will be booking pretty soon. If these things start moving, even at five inches an hour, there will be tidal waves like you never seen. And they are on as close as you can get to a frictionless bearing.
Oh, BTW, guess what they want to do now, drill for oil up there. Oh yeah, then the ice mass can just break along the dotted line. And they will determine where that dotted line is.
If I were dictator I would really have to think that over very carefully.
What's more, just a guesstimate, any crude in the Arctic region is very likely to be sour and heavy.
T
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