Note From JWR:
The Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning fatality count is now at 14 in the Seattle, Washington region, in the power outages following the recent wind storm. These were mostly people running backup generators inside their houses.
Day: December 19, 2006
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Letter Re: First Hand Observations on the Recent Pacific Northwest Wind Storm
Background: I am an 11 year veteran peace officer and survivalist, or in more politically correct terminology, a POP – Preparedness Oriented Person. I work in a moderate sized city in the Seattle area. On 14-15 December, the Tacoma-Seattle-Everett metropolitan area suffered one of the most deadly and damaging windstorms in recorded history. The storm easily eclipsed the last major deadly blow on Inaugural Day, 1993. That storm had been identified as a “once in a century” type storm. At the peak, over 1 million people did not have power. This storm was modeled and forecasted with accuracy five days …
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Odds ‘n Sods:
From Tom at www.CometGold.com: Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is directing a growing share of the country’s oil profits into euros as the dollar and crude prices fall. o o o I noticed that recent short-term strengthening of the U.S. Dollar has pounded down the spot price of silver from around $14 per ounce to about $12.50. Buy on these dips! o o o Hawaiian K. forwarded a link to some gloomy predictions from The Market Oracle: Three-Pronged Collapse … Stocks, Bonds and Real Estate
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Jim’s Quote of the Day:
“Unlike other nations, American identity is not based on ethnicity or geography. It’s based on a moral proposition. This proposition comes straight from the faded and yellowed document: The Declaration Of Independence.” – Chuck Colson
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