Democrats worry me, too. We have neighbors out here (to whom we have been good neighbors) who are BIG Democrats who do not like us because we didn’t vote for and weren’t snowed by the Clintons. I put up with the rudest behavior and was treated disrespectfully in these neighbors’ home when Bill was messing around with the intern and lying under oath. (I hadn’t said a word about it; just got attacked out of the blue.) I don’t know if they voted for Obama or not; I’ve quit doing all the trying at being “neighborly”. I’m sure they can’t fathom that the Clintons and the Obamas are cut from the same cloth; and that the Clintons paved the way for the Communist/Socialist. I mean, we’ll still do anything we can for anybody, but I’m tired of years of mostly being ignored or treated disrespectfully. I think they’re from the old school that thinks that the Democrats are more for the “poor people” than the Republicans, and that anyone who’s a Republican is just uppity. Too bad.
I would like to move further east in hopes of getting away from the New Madrid thing and the tornados, also in hopes of maybe getting some milder weather. We have our place here set up pretty comfortable, but it wouldn’t do us much good under a hundred feet of ocean from the gulf after a New Madrid earthquake. Oh well; if I can just stay away from the Democrats, I guess I’m fairly safe.
I don’t think you have to worry about being under 100 feet of water if another series of quakes like New Madrid occurs. The Mississippi did run backwards briefly, and large amounts of fallen trees were washed up a river in Texas, I think the Red River, and Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee was formed when a Graben (sp?) fault dropped 20 or 30 feet, but New Orleans survived better then than it did with Katrina. We should definitely keep an eye on Yellowstone, potentially much more dangerous.