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INTERESTING point to conjure: Whether Boeing Aircraft's rather abrupt and nearly inexplicable decision to pull up stakes and move to the Midwest may have been influenced by seismic concerns.
PERHAPS THE MEDIA OVERDID THE 'KILLER QUAKE' WARNINGS
It was manifestly made clear by the media after the magnitude 6.8 quake that rattled the region a few months ago, that the Seattle-Tacoma area has a good chance of producing a mammoth seismic slippage that would dwarf what can be produced by the San Andreas in California, even including a tsunami along the coastal regions....and what part of the Seattle area is *not* in a 'coastal' region, to some extent? The talk was, not of quakes in the '6's and '7's, but quakes in the '9's, yes, that's right! 9.2 or 9.5.... similar or slightly greater than the Good Friday Alaska debacle of 1964, and possibly the same size than whatever force out of hell hit Washington 300 years ago and leveled whole swatches of pine forests with tsunami blasts.
The prospect of billions of dollars' worth of equipment and inventory being damaged or destroyed by a fluke of nature may have made it apparent to the Boeing Board of Directors that the much more solid rock of 'Chicagoland', as it likes to call itself, where a 2.5 quake is big news and happens once a decade, makes a lot of sense financially. The cost of carrying enough earthquake insurance to offset potential losses in a 'once in a century' event that could happen any day, makes up for the expense of moving from one region of the country to another.
CAN BILL GATES BE FAR BEHIND?
Now, for some reason, the playback of the home video of Bill Gates scrambling from the stage where he was giving a computer pep-talk or demonstration when the 6.8 began knocking ceiling fixtures and lights down onto the auditorium comes vividly to mind. Even though he's built a hundred million dollar palace and has quite an extensive 'campus' nearby, is Bill Gates, always ahead of the times, going to be one step behind Boeing in moving out of Redmond, Washington, as well?
DOWN THE COAST? - OTHER PROBLEMS!
The Astrological progressions for Seattle (I did a series of these 'city' charts in 'alt.astrology' last month) are not very good over the next eight years, as Progressed Sun approaches a conjunction with Seattle's Saturn, one of the not very pleasant indicators in the 'sport' of 'chart watching'. It seems clear that more mag. 6.8 earthquakes, more companies moving away, among other difficulties, may be ahead. Seattle joins cities such as Santa Barbara, Ca., which may be jolted
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