Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster

Weather disasters and quakes: who’s most at risk? An attempt to assess a combination of those risks in 379 American metro areas.

Why did I move away from Spokane again? The city is ranked #6 for most likely to avoid natural disaster, according to The New York Times. 

It’s rather unlikely the residents will ever experience a tornado or hurricane threatening their city. Spokane will not crumble into a hot magma mess as theorized by that one volcano dude.

However, in New York City - we’re more likely to experience hurricanes. Flooding from Hurricane Sandy last year was quite the problem for lower elevation areas. My area of Brooklyn was not affected, I’m told. 

Hurricane season begins June 1 and is expected to go until Nov. 30.

Newspaper pranks

I recall the time we didn’t get our Sunday edition of the New York Times. As I backed out of my driveway the next day, I saw a blue bag with a paper in it sitting on top of our roof.

Damn kids.

SPECIAL ATTENTION, SOM CENTER ROAD: A woman said Jan. 29 an unknown woman was harassing her and had put bed bugs in her Sunday newspaper. She did not want to make a report because she thought the woman would harass her even more and she also did not want officers to come to her residence because she didn’t want the woman to see them there.

Iggy Pop says whatever too

I find it disturbing that I over use the word “whatever” or “whatevers” in random context (or whatever), but then I see aging rock stars use it during interviews and it makes me feel better. Or whatever.

Iggy Pop speaks with New York Times Magazine and answers the following question:

I’m curious how your tour is going. You have a new album, “Aprés,” and you’re out there with the Stooges. You resolved in 2010 that you wouldn’t stage-dive anymore after you had a mishap.

I said that after doing a concert for Tibet at Carnegie Hall, which I did because Philip Glass asked me to. But yeah, I am a little impulsive, and Lenny Kaye was playing “I Want to Be Your Dog” too damned slow, and I just ran out of ideas and I thought, Well, let’s just stage-dive. Nobody caught me, because it was the Carnegie Hall-Tibetan-whatever audience. I was a little miffed. We’ve done two gigs this year, and I haven’t done one yet. Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.

Also, I see that the magazine uses a special term at the bottom of their story to say “hey, we edited this whatever.” They add in all caps: INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.

Maybe I’ll start using that in my Q & As too. 

Source: The New York Times

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