Utah: Ground Zero
If gay marriage wasn't bad enough, we learn today that new earthquake-hazard maps show the Wasatch Front's long-foretold Big One is going to be a whopper.
Who would have thought that while Iraq was being turned upside down in search o
f weapons of mass destruction — a geek in Utah was making deadly ricin in his basement and keeping the powerful a biological toxin — a fatal dose fits on the head of a pin — in a West Jordan self-store unit.
Instead of chasing Chemical Ali, the Defense Department should have been looking for Utah's now-infamous Roger Von Bergendorff (that "Von" should have been a dead giveaway).
Ha, ha. What a world.
The U.S. Geological Survey published new, nationwide hazard maps Monday which show that the worst-case earthquake has been elevated to a magnitude 7.4 on the 240-mile Wasatch Fault that runs from Malad, Idaho, through the state's population centers to Gunnison, and that the devastation could span several Wasatch Fault segments all at once. ... And new faults have been discovered, including one south of Tooele, one under Utah Lake and one in the Cache Valley.Wow. The Wasatch Front is becoming an increasingly unhealthy place to hang out (Realtors stop reading now). Besides the lung-clogging inversions, radioactive waste dumps, Kennecott's slumping tailings ponds and a honkin' big earthquake threat, federal officials discovered Zion has been home to the long-sought WMDs.
Who would have thought that while Iraq was being turned upside down in search o
f weapons of mass destruction — a geek in Utah was making deadly ricin in his basement and keeping the powerful a biological toxin — a fatal dose fits on the head of a pin — in a West Jordan self-store unit.Instead of chasing Chemical Ali, the Defense Department should have been looking for Utah's now-infamous Roger Von Bergendorff (that "Von" should have been a dead giveaway).
Ha, ha. What a world.
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