This was what I originally wrote in a post some ways down in response to Dennis.

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Cathryn here: I think lead time is the defining factor. With other natural disasters there are often days'warning. EQ's strike when and where they d**n well feel like it. (Note: I used asterisks because this site otherwise would not allow me to post the word Rhett Buttler uttered to Liz Taylor and all of America some decades ago in one of the cinematic highlights of our culture.

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This was the message I received from the CDA:

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Cathryn here: I think lead time is the defining factor. With other natural disasters there are often days' warning. EQ's strike when and where they d**n well feel like it.

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Canie and others, what in hell is going on? (Let's see if hell gets through.)

With all the skanky, adolescently obscene porno advertising on the web these days, how could our Congress be concerned by my one little d**m? And am I now on some kind of list?

Utterly bewildered.

Cathryn