Hurricane Ike - before and after

[Kermit]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... e_ike.html

[PrivateSmiles]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... e_ike.html

It sure is flat country there. That would make me crazy. After living in Colorado Springs I can't stand spending any time in land that's flat as far as the eye can see. Maybe it's the opposite of claustrophobia. Flatophobia.

[Kermit]

It sure is flat country there. That would make me crazy. After living in Colorado Springs I can't stand spending any time in land that's flat as far as the eye can see. Maybe it's the opposite of claustrophobia. Flatophobia.

I lived in the Houston area for 30 years. After being born and raised a few years in Eastern Kentucky, even a young kid can wonder 'where are the hills?'

[MaryS]

They showed a picture of that single surviving house where the rest were washed away. I wonder how many will dare rebuild.

[PrivateSmiles]

I lived in the Houston area for 30 years. After being born and raised a few years in Eastern Kentucky, even a young kid can wonder 'where are the hills?'

When I lived in Colo Springs I flew to Austin TX for a job interview with AMD. I was there for most of 3 days so I spent quite a bit of that time just driving around the city & countryside. I felt uneasy the entire time I was there, because I kept looking around for the mountains, or at least some significant hills. I was spooked by what wasn't there. I knew I could not live there.

I had job interviews with DEC (long-defunct) just outside of Boston, and with National Semiconductor (long-defunct) near Tacoma, and the TX terrain was positively the worst, as far as what I needed for an environment to live in.

WA state has it all, I've discovered. All kinds of bodies of water (very significant water at that), mountains, volcanoes, rain forests, high desert, picturesque beaches, billions of acres of untouched forests, tens of 1000s of acres of agriculture. Timber production. WA state is the # 1 producer of cherries in the U.S., apples of course, onions, oh, and then there is the salmon. International airport, and shipping ports. A fantastic climate. Racing is also very important to WA.

That said, I'm not native to this area, I was raised in SoCal and lived there for about 30 years.

[89vision]

When I lived in Colo Springs I flew to Austin TX for a job interview with AMD. I was there for most of 3 days so I spent quite a bit of that time just driving around the city & countryside. I felt uneasy the entire time I was there, because I kept looking around for the mountains, or at least some significant hills. I was spooked by what wasn't there. I knew I could not live there.

I had job interviews with DEC (long-defunct) just outside of Boston, and with National Semiconductor (long-defunct) near Tacoma, and the TX terrain was positively the worst, as far as what I needed for an environment to live in.

WA state has it all, I've discovered. All kinds of bodies of water (very significant water at that), mountains, volcanoes, rain forests, high desert, picturesque beaches, billions of acres of untouched forests, tens of 1000s of acres of agriculture. Timber production. WA state is the # 1 producer of cherries in the U.S., apples of course, onions, oh, and then there is the salmon. International airport, and shipping ports. A fantastic climate. Racing is also very important to WA.

That said, I'm not native to this area, I was raised in SoCal and lived there for about 30 years.

I live in Oregon, and I gotta say its got all that stuff that Washington has.. If you've never been out to the Northwest you really should visit sometime.

[PrivateSmiles]

I live in Oregon, and I gotta say its got all that stuff that Washington has.. If you've never been out to the Northwest you really should visit sometime.

Not quite "all" LOL Rain forests? Straits? Inhabited islands? Active volcano?

Oregon is very nice but WA is much more geologically diverse.