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The town where I grew up (Los Alamos, NM) had a big fire a few years after I left which destroyed over 400 homes (look up "Cerro Grande Fire" on Wikipedia for details.) A windstorm last week (that thankfully dod no damage here) gave me some chance to look at my emergency preparedness, and I think I'd probably actually be in decent shape if it was something where I could stay here, but I'm not so sure about what would happen if I had to evacuate.
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I haven't ever seen F1 cars race (it's on my "to do" list at some point, but I'll probably have to go to Europe to see them.) In general, race cars are loud though. For the past couple of years I've been to an American Le Mans Series race, and you've got cars blasting by loud enough to wake the dead (the GT1 Corvettes in particular.) On the flip side of the coin though, you've got the Audi R10s running 12 cylinder turbo diesel engines, and all you can hear as those go by is the sound of the turbos. It's actually a bit disconcerting to hear a racecar be that quiet...
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For several years in Seattle, just off I-5 there was a house which had started to lean in a similar fashion when its foundation was undermined by flooding. In that case, it was too severe (and too damaged) to correct, and the house sat abandoned for quite a while before finally being demolished.
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