Stop if you heard this one: California is heading for a huge earthquake.in 30 years. While I do not doubt that the Golden State will someday slide into the Pacific, hopefully taking the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons of the world with it, but excuse me if I scoff at the prediction made by the scientific community as both alarmist and useless. Alarmist because as I already know, scientists publish these scary headlines because it helps with funding. Useless because the time frame is too big and vague to be useful.As a New Englander I was scared back in the 1980's when a catastrophic earthquake

Photos of the raging Malibu fires.Photos by Dan Steinberg, Kevork Djansezian, Mike Meadows, Reed Saxon and Craig Durling / AP via laist.com

For a week now fires have been raging all over California. Firemen are trying to take things under control, but for now this doesn't seem possible. I've seen some very moving reports on TV where people with tears in their eyes were saying they had lost everything. The governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger (hope i spelled it right) said that everyone who had suffered from the fires will get compensations and help. Hope it's true, and things won't go like in New Orleans.

The Santa Cruz Mountains, west of Silicon Valley, is the place, where many good mushrooms grow, including chanterelles, morels and porcini, that can cost up to $50 a pound at gourmet markets.But there are also poisonous varieties with sinister names like "death cap" and "destroying angel" that can cause liver failure and death when eaten — and are frequently mistaken for their edible cousins."One mistake can be the difference between life and death," said Judith Alsop, director of the Sacramento division of the state poison control system. "If you're going to eat mushrooms,

It is located in northern California, on the Monticello dam. it is capable to pass through 1370 cubic metre of water in a second. its depth is 21 m and it has the form of a cone with a diameter 21,6 m.

Sudden snowfall in California mountains north from Los Angeles made one of the main routes impassable. Last registered snowfall here was in January 1962.Snow and ice in Malibu, Santa Monica caused total mayhem. Local inhabitants say that they haven't seen anything like that for more than 20 years.

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