[Sca-cooks] OT: Weather in Oertha

[Terry Decker]

> Anchorage, for all it's spectucular spillage was on a secondary fault
> and didn't have near as much actual shaking and rattling, nor as many 
> aftershocks.
>

The problem in Anchorage was the thixotropic clay a lot of it was built on. 
The shocks turned the clay to mud and a lot of things on slopes started 
moving.  Such landslides are a a lot more deadly than the earthquke itself.

A friend of my father's had a house overlooking Turnagain Arm.  His 
neighbors house went down the hill and the land down by the arm settled 
about ten feet dropping the tops of all the trees.  He bought the neighbor's 
land, added to his place, put an L-shaped picture window in the northwest 
corner of the house.  He had a marvelous panoramic view of the ship traffic 
on Turnagain Arm sweeping northward to a million dollar view of Mount 
McKinley.   So the earthquake wasn't a total loss.

> I'll cap you glaciation (running water over ice on the road for the 
> uninitiated).
>

This is similar to the effect of ice rains.  The water is liquid as it pours 
down, but cold enough to start freezing on contact.  You get glare ice on 
the roads with a layer of water on it.  The water starts freezing to the 
windshield as it hits.  I had the joyous experience of making a 25 mile ride 
on a motorcycle in an ice rain.  It was one of the more miserable and 
dangerous trips I've ever made and I definitely do not want to do it again.

> A whole year later than the Good Friday Quake and there were long 
> stretches of roadway that were just mud. The Kenai had a lot of destroyed 
> roadways to rebuild.
>
> Morgana, thinking she created a monster, or everyone is just bored...


I'll bet.  I saw it again in the early 70s and they had gotten it back to 
paved two lane.

I think we're a little bored, a little tired, and trying to think of a 
medieval culinary subject to beat around.

Bear