RE: [californiadisasters] Thank goodness for this group.

Points well taken, and I apologize to anyone working for USGS etc. Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Kim Noyes
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:04 PM
To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Thank goodness for this group.

Jim,

What Newnethboy is trying to say is "THANK YOU" for the kind comments and he
not only would like to agree with you but actually does, too. ;-p

In all seriousness though, the it is easy to talk about the government as
some big evil monolithic structure forgetting that it is populated by many
of the people on this group as well as many others like them who are not on
this list.

Dr. Kate's colleague across the street at the USGS, Dr. Lucy is part of that
government entity to which you refer and there are no facts to suggest she
is hiding or suppressing any vital quake hazard information in order to
candy-coat the situation.

The fact of the matter is that in the Information Age that also happens to
coincide with a now-prolonged period of public cynicism and skepticism about
the Establishment that there are either hardly any secrets and the few there
are generally don't stay secret very long.

Indeed, a skeptic could make just as strong an argument that Cal Tech and
the USGS overstate the risks in order to afford more job security and drum
up more grant money.

I don't hold this view but my point is the conspiracy angle usually cuts
both ways all the while being utterly false both ways.

Kimmer

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:58 AM, newnethboy <kef413@gmail.com> wrote:

As an admin on this group, quite naturally I'd like to agree with
you.

However, the fact is that members here are human too, and we range
from the
top experts in the various fields to real ding-a-lings. This group
has seen
some posts that are as inaccurate as some of the government
statements you
refer to.

Bottom line is that, in some of these things, when something
happens, we'll
know what was going to happen.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rawls" <jazzpiano@ca.rr.com
<mailto:jazzpiano%40ca.rr.com> >
To: "CaliforniaDisasters" <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:californiadisasters%40yahoogroups.com> >
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 7:24 AM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Thank goodness for this group.

> I'm always suspicious of a governmental agency that says, it is
not likely
> that an earth quake will occur on this fault or that fault. I
think in
many
> cases, the governmental agencies love to sugar coat things fearing
that
> people will panic if they really knew what the situation was. That
may be
> true, but the more prepared you are, the better off you'll be and
the less
> likely you will panic. At least with this group, we will know
things as
they
> really are.
> That's my opinion anyway. Jim,

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