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Pineau:
Hey Willy, Were not uncivilized. Arby's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Fried chicken and McDonald's and a lot more down the road at the truck stop. But there is damned little of anything else between here and there. Open fields and water fowl is all you will see for miles.
BTW we have a large Asian community here also . Mostly from mainland and Singapore. And Boulder has many from everywhere. University of Colorado Boulder has one of the nations premiere Asian studies departments. A well kept secret is that Longmont is the birthplace of the hard drive industry. Maxtor, Seagate and MiniScribe and a multitude of now defunct disk drive companies had their beginnings here in Longmont. The nearest Asian market is in Broomfield about 30 minutes away and the H-Mart Korean store is 1 hour away in Denver.
A little Geography lesson. Use Google maps to find Colorado Springs. You will find highway 25 running north and south the entire length of Colorado. Most of the time it is just to the East of the rocky mountains It is a magnificent view to drive the state from south to north. About 35 miles north of Denver you will see farm land that continues all the way to Wyoming.
At highway 119 and 25 is the junction for going to Longmont.
2 miles further is highway 66 which crosses east and west along the North of Longmont. Follow it west and you will find the gateway to the Rocky mountain National forest. (Lyons Colorado). If you continue you will find Estes park a beautiful little community nestled in the mountains and the entrance to the national forest. Continue into the park you will eventually end up on trail ridge road. This is the path that leads over the mountains to the other side. You will cross what we call the continental divide. The mountain ridges that separate east and western United states. In all my travels with the exception of Zhanjiajie, I have never seen such natural untouched beauty.
I moved here to Longmont about 20 years ago. I have left twice, but I always return to these mountains. I don't think I could live anywhere else now. If I were forced to live anywhere else I think I would be very sad.
Willy The Londoner:
I will say that many parts of the USA look good. It has certainly got things going for it.
But what about the sudden influx of Natural Disasters that seem to becoming more common in all different parts of the USA from Cities like New York to small communities in the plains.
I see yesterday that another small town was decimated in Oklahoma due to natures elements. My heart goes out to them, in the UK the only disasters on such a scale are normally man made.
Willy
Pineau:
Willy , thanks for your condolences for my home state.
I was born and raised in Oklahoma but I would much rather live in Moore OK than anywhere near Wenchuan Sichuan or any of the southern provinces' of China right now. Its sad to see this happen to anyone civilization, country or culture. Bad things happens everywhere but I don't think mother nature picks on any one in particular. That's just the way the world is put together.
Yes that was a really bad tornado. I think the death toll was 51 and rising. Really horrible but it pales when compared to the earthquakes and floods in China. You know.... the ones that wipe out entire towns and kill tens of thousands every few years.
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Willy The Londoner:
--- Quote from: Pineau on May 22, 2013, 12:22:46 am ---
Yes that was a really bad tornado. I think the death toll was 51 and rising. Really horrible but it pales when compared to the earthquakes and floods in China. You know.... the ones that wipe out entire towns and kill tens of thousands every few years.
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Your probably right which is why I enjoy living as far away from Sichuan as you do from San Franscisco. Less mountains mean less chance of Earthquakes I believe.
Willy
brett:
Still a China newbie but I'm still stunned at the ferocity of mother nature here.
Monday night's rainstorm that totalled my shoes recorded 12cm of rain at the local weather station. That's 10% of my former UK town's annual rainfall falling here in a single hour.
I was lucky not to get struck by lightning/hit by an out of control car/washed away. My ex here tells me that there are regular reports of people disappearing during "大暴雨" storms. I only had 400M to walk from the bus stop to home, but water was pouring out from so many places it looked like the set of Titanic.
What's strange is that these violent storms are highly localised. Yesterday there was a bad one in Baiyun, but it wasn't raining at all south of the river.
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