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Old 10-26-2015, 04:54 PM   #3859
Lamplighter
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr View Post
I grew up in LA in the late 40's during all the "Duck-And-Cover" business,
and many the adults went nuts thinking LA was going to be hit by an A-bomb.

Some of them with $ bought land out towards Palm Springs,
and started digging their own single-family "fallout shelters".

But we used to make fun of them because the prevailing winds would have blown
the radioactive cloud eastward out of LA and dumped it right on top of them.

If you drive that route (I-10 / Whitewater) now,
what you see are wind turbines generating power.

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