Big deal - they're almost all Kerry voters anyway...
"A future president of the United States must make a call on what to do when La Palma collapses," he said.
Kerry's Vietnam service should be sufficient to avert this disaster.
Hey! Hey! There are plenty of Republicans in Virgina. Except for a certain few counties in Northern Virginia, Virginia is a pretty conservative state and usually votes for Republican presidential candidates.
Seriously, there are three mega natural disaster scenarios. They involve: 1) a large asteroid striking the Earth, 2) eruption of a supervolcano (like Yosemite National Park - the entire park is the caldera for a supervolcano and it is swelling at one end now...)and 3) the collapse of part or all of a large mountain or island into the sea (in addition to Las Palmas, over in the Pacific, there is a major portion of the big island of Hawaii that is cracking off...).
We are only working on Number 1. We need to start working on the other two...and if you can think big enough and boldly enough, their effects can be forstalled or at least mitigated.
Imagine how much geothermal energy you could extract from a super volcano. Imagine the effect pulling all that heat out of the cap would have on preventing/forestalling its softening. Imagine using all that electrical energy to drive the machinery that dig the underground channels that direct the lava out of the caldera to the Pacific when the time comes to release the pressure in a controlled fashion? Imagine having so much electrical energy available that it becomes a major US export to ...everywhere.
A portion of an island can fall into the sea as one big chunk of rock or as one billion, two billion, or however-many-billion-it-takes fist size pieces over a twenty year period. The mass is the same, the effect on the ocean very different. Sounds like a necessary and useful task for convict labor. I nominate the 600+ detainees at GITMO for the first shift with others to follow from the hard core convicts from every country that will be effected by a collapse. Let them really break rocks for a real purpose.
If we lost the voters who live within 5 KM of both coasts, America would be about 85% Republican. There is always a silver lining.