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[Warpy]

1. Well, before you get too smug

Aren't there a couple of nuclear plants on fault lines? How about all that sprawl surrounded by chaparral and/or eucalyptus forest, two plants that don't just burn, they explode? How about all those rich people with their cedar shake roofs? How about all those moonscape neighborhoods with houses perched on soft story 2 car garages?

California gets a little better at tightening up earthquake resistant construction codes every time there's an earthquake and they see what fell down, but there is still a long way to go in most other areas.

Nice weather, though. Too expensive and too crowded for me, so when I left Boston, I only bothered to get as far as NM. We get a lot of nice weather, too.

[SHRED]

2. I think we both know

I was comparing with Texas.

NM is special.

[Warpy]

3. Oh, yeah, but there's plenty of idiocy here, also

I usually chalk it up to laziness and incompetence instead of malevolence. Texas might be different. Big scandal here was a developer who decided to maximize the number of houses he could cram onto a parcel of land by filling in a few arroyos. He got lucky for a couple of years, the monsoons fizzled and we didn't get much snow. Then the skies opened.and a few of his houses got destroyed. Big drama ensued.

Yeah, he was from Texas.