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Subject: Re: [emergency] RE: Opportunity for CAP? State CIOs Plan System ToWarn Public Of Danger
On a tangent - while fear-mongering seems to be good for the business of emergency alerting, I must point out: If your chances are 1 in 200 of being hit by that tsunami (taking Rex' example - the reality is much larger), chances are almost 5 to 20 times times greater that you will: 1. get hit by a car 2. contract lung cancer 3. have a stroke 4. have a heart attack 5. contract hiv 6. simply expire from old age Don't Panic. :) Cheers Kon On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:26 -0800, Rex Brooks wrote: > Anyone else catch the History Channel program over the weekend on > mega-tsunamis generated from volcanic island earthquake/eruption > triggered landslide collapses that identify an active volcano in the > Canary Islands as the most likely source of such for the next 200 > years or so? Very interesting for what research has discovered about > how an event considerably larger than the Sumatra Quake Dec. 24, 2004 > could happen. The coastline most at rish up to 12 miles inland? The > entire east oast of the U.S. Could the next eruption or as delayed the > fifth eruption from now. Fascinating. > > > Thanks, Carl, this is important in the window of opportunity we are in > now.
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