Parma, what's in Parma beside kishka, kielbasa and babusczkas?
btw-- the Parma in Italy is a wonderful city which gets very little tourist traffic in spite of a wonderful duomo and great food. The only time Parma IT is busy is when they have their annual fair.
Parma OH is the ancestral home of many high-school buds, and the place where the pink flamingo was spawned and sent to Florida for the winter.
btw-- the Parma in Italy is a wonderful city which gets very little tourist traffic in spite of a wonderful duomo and great food. The only time Parma IT is busy is when they have their annual fair.
Parma OH is the ancestral home of many high-school buds, and the place where the pink flamingo was spawned and sent to Florida for the winter.
There was a small, physical Burstein-Applebee in suburban Kansas City until the late 70's. I think it was on the Kansas side, perhaps on Metcalf or State Line Rd.
Dale
Well it's not cold at all here on the West coast, with temps hovering near 70F and clear skies. It makes me wonder what cosmic catastrophe we're being saved for when we get this sort of weather while the East coast gets the snot pounded out of it. I'm glad I made the big move 30+ years ago.
Does the east coast get as many big earthquakes as the west coast?
I would choose the cold rather than the devastation !
I can plan for the cold.
I would choose the cold rather than the devastation !
I can plan for the cold.
That's why the food is good! I couldn't believe how bad Italian food was the last time I went to the country - the equation is, quality = 1 / popularity with tourists.
Hey, they wouldn't know the difference, the schmucks have plenty of money to throw around ... 😀
No but Parma (Cleveland)[mid-west] does experience about one small earthquake a year. The area is still recovering from the last ice-age some 10,000 years ago.
Parma also experiences lots of lake-effect snow. But Sunday's storm will probably pass South of Parma and the snow won't be lake-effect.
Deep into Summer now...the girls finished their Dance lessons....Mom & Daughter...
Just' finished mowing their front lawn...now onto ours!!
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Lakewood is as far west as the County Mayo Irish made it, but some ventured south to Parma or Fairview Park.
I remember going to John Meshna with a friend, for a brief time they sold a speaker kit designed by someone at MIT. My friend bought the kit, unfortunately it was the first and last time I ever went there. Spent many happy afternoons at Abbott Electronics in Woburn snatching up surplus HH Scott parts amongst other things.. There was also an Active Electronics in Woburn and another in Westboro now both long gone. "You Do It" is the last hold out that I am aware of around here, however ESS is still going strong now up in Manchester NH..
www.esssurplus.com/
We live on the East Coast in what locally is referred to as "the hub of the universe" - sort of a local joke actually since our mass transit seems to specialize in train fires and operators who crash their buses and LRVs on a regular basis.
Most major earthquakes on the East Coast occur in the back woods of Maine where almost no one lives, we sometimes feel them here, but they are generally quite trivial compared to the West Coast. We can go for several years without a single jolt, but in the eleven years I have lived on the coast I remember two or three that were notable. (When the house starts moving in all 3 planes at once it can be a bit unnerving to say the least.)
We are pretty tired of the climate, things are getting increasingly weird with each passing year now, regardless of what anyone may believe about cause something is definitely going on. Sometimes I think I would happily swap this climate for a good earthquake proof house in a temperate area of Northern California.
Kevin as a Yank, you'll be forgiven for not realizing that it's Toronto that is the centre of the universe 😉. Actually I've never ventured outside of YYZ, so I'm only basing that on popular Canuck mythos.
Yup, things are definitely changing - too bad none of this was predicted
Northern CA, or southern Oregon are gorgeous, some parts still relatively unscathed by rampant commercial development - just be sure to settle at least 100ft above current sea level
Yup, things are definitely changing - too bad none of this was predicted
Northern CA, or southern Oregon are gorgeous, some parts still relatively unscathed by rampant commercial development - just be sure to settle at least 100ft above current sea level
I hit 25 degree Celsius yesterday afternoon, on my veranda.
The flowers are blooming (the buds started to open three weeks ago).
We're in the middle of Winter here up North, in Canadian igloo country, and it just feels like Summer already.
Today was cloudy, and it just rained couple hours ago, but still reasonably warm this afternoon.
The weather is so nice that I feel to go in vacation, in beautiful neighborhood Syria countryside.
The flowers are blooming (the buds started to open three weeks ago).
We're in the middle of Winter here up North, in Canadian igloo country, and it just feels like Summer already.
Today was cloudy, and it just rained couple hours ago, but still reasonably warm this afternoon.
The weather is so nice that I feel to go in vacation, in beautiful neighborhood Syria countryside.
I agree with that, especially after being sent to Mexico City in response to the 1985 earthquake. Outside the ground-zero destruction zone (where essentially every structure was destroyed or unusable) it was fascinating to see the selectivity of the devastation. One building may have been reduced to, quite literally, a pile of bricks while a building immediately across the street appeared relatively undamaged. I'm certainly not a structural engineer but seeing those examples first-hand made me realize there ARE things we can do to resist earthquake damage. It challenges the engineer in me to ask, "OK - how far can we take this? How severe must the earthquake be before we can no longer offer significant resistance?".
I have lived in suburban St Louis, roughly the geographical center of the U.S., for almost 27 years. Every 3 or 4 years we get an earthquake strong enough that I'm quite aware it's an earthquake - I can recall two specific occasions when my wife and I were awakened from sleep by the shaking. I don't think there was ever any notable damage in the region. It seems that after each of these events the local media outlets bring out a scientist or two who say that "one of these days" we'll experience a major, devastating, earthquake. After all, about 200 years ago one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in North America was centered near New Madrid, Missouri, about 150 miles from St Louis.
Regarding natural disasters, our local nemesis is tornadoes. (I understand these are rather rare in Europe.) While a direct hit by a tornado may be every bit as deadly and devastating as an earthquake, typically the severe damage from a tornado occurs in tracks no more than a couple hundred yards wide and less than a mile long. And modern methods of forecasting and tracking tornadoes have significantly reduced injuries and death even though they can't help avoid property damage.
But then there are people who willingly live in locations that are repeatedly hit by hurricanes. Like you and the earthquakes, I'll willingly take an annual blizzard or two rather than trying to dodge a hurricane every 5 or 10 years.
Ya know, the more I think about this, the more attractive Calumet, Michigan becomes as a place to live! http://www.mtukrc.org/met/webcam.jpg http://www.eagleharborcam.com/
Dale
It's about 30⁰F raining over 6 inches of very heavy snow. Winter Wonderland tomorrow as the temps go into the teens.
Still snowing here, and once again we got quite a lot, no idea exactly how much, but it looks like the high end of the predictions from indoors. Getting sort of tired of this..lol I am going to head out shortly to snow blow as sleet is expected later today.
Yep, tornadoes are rare over here. Earthquakes are fairly common, but seldom damaging. If its a really bad one, some stuff might fall off a shelf.
The south of the UK is often subject to floods, since its fairly close to sea level. Up north (where I am), we have lots of drivers that simply can't manage the snow that comes around most years. Apart from that, we have a lot of grey cloud cover and drizzle, which can last anywhere between an afternoon and a fortnight.
Suddenly this damp island doesn't seem to bad... 😀
Chris
The south of the UK is often subject to floods, since its fairly close to sea level. Up north (where I am), we have lots of drivers that simply can't manage the snow that comes around most years. Apart from that, we have a lot of grey cloud cover and drizzle, which can last anywhere between an afternoon and a fortnight.
Suddenly this damp island doesn't seem to bad... 😀
Chris