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12946. Dubai Vol - 12/28/2004 11:51:19 PM The Vol is short for "Volunteer;" I'm from Tennessee, and everybody in my family, practically, went to UT, whose sports teams are the Vols. I first used the name on a UT sports board, and just use the same name everywhere. "Mrs Vol" is from Warwickshire; we met here in Dubai. SHe is also now a Vol fan: I took her to see three football games in Sept, carefully explaining the rules before and during (what a complicated game!) and she loves it! 12947. thoughtful - 12/29/2004 5:11:08 PM Grrrr. Tenn Vols....Grrrr.
Chief rivals of the UConn Huskies
Go Huskies!!! 12948. iiibbb - 12/29/2004 5:33:35 PM I went to UTK for my MS degree. I didn't like it there at first, but it grew on me. I'd move back there.
The football fans are a little nuts though. Some of the worst drivers are in TN (because they are so unpredictable)... I mean to say that NJ has bad drivers but you know they're going to be jerks, so you can compensate. In TN you never knew what you were going to get. 12949. Max Macks - 12/29/2004 9:39:17 PM Dubai Vol
I associate "Vol" with TN . and as I read about
Stanford in the new here I think of Tenn. Vol
womens basketball. I think both those teams were
number one and two.
I cant immediately think of where Dubai is.
Is it near Oman and Qutar in Arabia?
So Dubai are you in the peace corps ? or? 12950. Max Macks - 12/29/2004 9:42:59 PM I have been reading about the tsunami and
powerful earthquake in Indonesia.
When did Irving Snodgrass leave Bali I wonder,
He must surely be glad that he did.
I imagine Bali like all the other islands that comprise
Indonesia were hit by that wave of death.
I read that the quake might have measured
9 on the Richter scale.
I don't think even the most severe quake
in California was more than 7. 12951. Max Macks - 12/29/2004 9:42:59 PM I have been reading about the tsunami and
powerful earthquake in Indonesia.
When did Irving Snodgrass leave Bali I wonder,
He must surely be glad that he did.
I imagine Bali like all the other islands that comprise
Indonesia were hit by that wave of death.
I read that the quake might have measured
9 on the Richter scale.
I don't think even the most severe quake
in California was more than 7. 12952. PelleNilsson - 12/29/2004 9:54:10 PM Do you have any idea at all where Bali is located relative to the earthquake? 12953. iiibbb - 12/29/2004 10:06:56 PM The three most powerful earthquakes in US history were the New Madrid quakes in the US (TN, MO) around 1810 or so. They were estimated to measure as high as 8.4, 8.6, and 8.7. 12954. Ms. No - 12/30/2004 2:04:41 AM I'm out for the weekend early.
Have a Happy and Safe New Year! 12955. Max Macks - 12/30/2004 3:27:53 AM The strongest I have felt in the Bay Area
was the one in 1989 that knocked out a section
of the Bay Bridge, I think it was about 7 .
someone told me that for each number increase
on Richter scale that is TWICE the magnitude of the prevous
number . so 7 is twice as strong as 6.
Imagine what 9 must be . tho it was under water
the quake, i.e.
Pelle Bali is in Indonesia , one of the many islands
that make up that country.
It must have been as badly damaged as Jakarta
and those other places 12956. Max Macks - 12/30/2004 3:30:52 AM Pelle , to my great surprise
I went to Google and typed "Bali and tsumani"
and there was a report from some hotel
saying that Bali was not affected by the wave
as was Jakarta ,
I can't understand why not. 12957. iiibbb - 12/30/2004 3:42:57 AM Richter is a log scale. 7 is actually 10 times stronger than a 6, and 9 is 100 times stronger than a 7. 12958. Max Macks - 12/30/2004 3:51:54 AM well, what ever it must be one of the strongest
ever.
btw I still cannot understand how Bali could not be
affected
as that hotel i found on Google said.
It is right near Sumatra. 12959. Snowowl - 12/30/2004 3:53:38 AM Bali is not affected. My oldest son and his family are en route to Bali right now, to stopover for a few days on their way down here.
I'm a little bit concerned because there's a terror warning out for Bali, but they have assured me that they're staying well away from the big tourist resorts so they're not worried themselves.
That won't stop me biting my nails down to the quick until they get here. 12960. iiibbb - 12/30/2004 4:43:59 AM It is the strongest in 4 decades. There was a 9.2 in Alaska in the 60's. 12961. Absensia - 12/30/2004 5:42:13 AM Jakarta, on Java, was not affected either. At least that is what the Jakarta Post reports, as well as an online friend who is in Jakarta right now. 12962. iiibbb - 12/30/2004 5:43:55 AM Good news... that Swedish 2 yr old dad was found alive. Mother's fate still unknown. 12963. Dubai Vol - 12/30/2004 7:07:29 AM Tennessee has a basketball team? 12964. Frankster - 12/30/2004 11:30:49 AM Arky,
Fraaaaannnnk! Hope you have a great holiday season! I'd love it if we could see you this summer!
We had a nice quiet Christmas with my parents, bro, and SIL. Today it's a huge bunch with Bob's fam--5 boys under 4. I'm bracing myself.
Here's the scoop: I had a great Christmas, particularly since I really don't care for the unctuousness and crass commercialism this season brings on with such empasis. Thank you.
Sis and her family are in for three weeks from Maui, and my brother also was in town for Christmas from mid California for a few days. It was great to gather all under one roof -- a new roof mind you under my sister's recently remodeled LARGER home -- for what can be for the last time, if not one of the last times, given the frail health of those such as my father's and other older persons assembled there. It was also neat to see the teens do their gift exchange for the first time, followed afterward by the adults doing their thing. I thought my gift card for the ubiquitous 7/11 would be a hit, but the DVD sets and power drills won out in take-aways, of which I received one mind you, thank you very much.:) Someone actually had the nerve to contribute a punch bowl -- A PUNCH BOWL ??? It must have been a rewrap from a recently attended wedding and certainly in jest I would hope, huh ? Hee-hee...
Continued: 12965. Frankster - 12/30/2004 11:32:07 AM Continued:
I think we only have a few years with the kids at the most given how fast they are growing and I would surmise, eventually moving out or on to college, et all. On top of all that, I received a gift from my mother that I'll actually utilize and not return. She gave me the new box set of the Beatles'early capitol releases on CD which I had planned on purchasing soon. I constantly tell her that I don't need or want anything for Christmas or my birthday, particularly given her propensity for getting me undersized clothes which have patterns that can be tracked by satelite, but you know moms. Hee-hee! Well,anyway ...
What's up this summer, by the way ? What's going on THIS summer ?
I hope everyone here had a great Christmas season, however they may celebrate it.
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