Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning conditions are very likely Monday evening through Tuesday for much of the Santa Ana wind corridor of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. This event has the potential to be as strong as the November 5th-6th Santa Ana event that led to the Mountain Fire. Prepare for fire weather by ensuring you have ( Read more... )

16 tons.

Not quite what is sounds like, I suspect. But this is the version from my childhood. Disney at its best. Which, when you think about it, means Disney was being...well, Disney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

Wintersong was my penname at the time, before I started using SGCBearcub. I had originally intended to use a different penname for each major fanfiction genre - hence Wintersong for X-Files, and SGCBearcub for Stargate, but it got too complicated with different emails, and uploading to sites like Fanfiction.net.

I only invented A.E Silver when I ( Read more... )

In the light of all the wokeness on the net lately, I thought I would write a few journal entries to my future self regarding my stories. Given the existence of the nano-implant and the need to plan for how we are going to preserve the integrity of our personalities and memories going through renewal, these are mostly for myself, but others might ( Read more... )

Text I was trying to post to the Tax Minister.

For my own protection, the system borked.

"Had you considered that one of the primary reasons to donate to charity is to obtain a tax benefit. This does not obviate the benefit to Canada or the people who benefit from that donation. For example: a family purchases an acreage. They are mostly employed ( Read more... )

Let me preface this by stating that I am not a chemist.

However, referring to my earlier hypothesis that methane may be responsible for smoothing out the plate tectonics by prying the plates apart through the creation of methane ice in the subduction zone, we now have the interesting complication of diamonds.

Basically, if you heat and increase the ( Read more... )

I am implant dependent. Think of it like a pacemaker. I have hardware in my body that is medically necessary and it is being attacked.

There is nothing I can do. I was never told about it. My parents are both deceased and never mentioned it. I suspect it has been there since I was six or so, and certain unexplained damage to my body suggests that ( Read more... )

So the cooking classes are a good idea for children. They contribute to cultural development, keep the kids out of trouble, allow them to meet people from other areas, practice english or french, and sets them up for a travel friendly part-time job for future globe-trotting.

So what if you are not 16?

Is it too late?

In Quebec, all these programs ( Read more... )

Quebec residents can take public CEGEP for free. What does that have to do with disaster?

Everything.

From the looks of the school system, this was an integrated long term plan to promote cultural development. And most of it is built on Mazlow's Hierarchy of needs.



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As if floods are not bad enough, the people most likely to be high enough up the hills to be out of flood danger are mostly in the mudslide/landslide risk areas.

Post on Linked In with some helpful links.

I went a little overboard adding stuff to the bugout bag list. It really did start as a backpack list. But on the off chance some people may need ( Read more... )