BaxDeal@aol.com wrote:
> People who've never been here before fear the
quakes, but they're few and far
> between. And usually pretty harmless. The fires
however, happen annually
> every fall when the Santa Ana Winds start blowing in
from the North. The
> tall weeds in the hills have dried a nice, crispy
brown from the hot, summer
> sun. And the pyromaniacs who like to watch things
burn drive out with their
> cans of gasoline or other incendiary devices. More
than anything, the brush
> fires are L.A.'s true natural disaster.
>
> The mudslides when it rains are second. Traffic on
the 405 is third.
> Earthquakes are a far distant fourth.
>
> John Lau
>
As far as L.A. disasters go, I'd rank traffic (all over town)
as number 1, (often with a bullet). It's a daily nightmare
that we all have to deal with here. I've wrecked twice this
year already. Once when a guy shot through a stop sign at
fifty miles an hour in a van and practically killed myself
and my two kids, then again when a woman in an SUV (on a cell
phone, of course) decided at the last moment she'd rather go
to Pasadena than Santa Monica and blew across four lanes of
freeway without looking, threaded the needle between the two
cars beside me, and put me into the concrete divider. She
stayed off the 405, stayed on the 101, managed to make a
dozen cars smoke, screech and bump, slowed traffic behind her
for at least an hour to come, never put her phone down and
never even looked back. She was probably bitching to her
friend that we were distracting her while we were playing
bumper cars in her rearview mirror.
Bring me a good earthquake any day!
As far as the Santa Anas go, you can't beat Big Ray's RED
WIND, and I burned down a good portion of Malibu in my own
L.A. noir, SHOOTERS. Just acting out, I guess.
TL
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