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I used to ride my motorcycle out to that area. People either love it, or hate it. You have to be a "desert person." It's either beautiful, or it's God-forsaken. The Salton Sea has a strange history. From the Salton Sea Museum website: Over the centuries at least 5 lakes occupied the basin where the current Salton Seal lies. The Salton Sea was created between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River broke through diversion canals in the irrigation system in Imperial County, (and flooded the area.) There's lots of "warm springs" that bubble up out of the ground around there. Maybe the reason for the tremblers? It gets very stinky. Lots of fish die. There's lots of fertilizer runn-off into the "Sea."
To Salton Sea? Are you crazy? I lived in Palm Springs in the 1980s. We had several large quakes. I was a writer at the time and talked to lots of people and surveyed lots of the damage. The Twentynine Palms Quake around 1985, The quake in Northridge. The quake along the border near Mexicali. the Salton Sea area was a bit of a resort paradise in the 1950s, but by the 1980s, total slum. Raw sewage from Mexico from the New River....
In Palm Springs, I could see the San Andreas Fault from my living room window. I also lived in Ferndale, Calif., near Eureka and near Cape Mendocino during the 1992 earthquake. That series of quakes seriously changed the height of the sea floor. What used to be under several feet of sea water, then became the new beach. The San Andreas comes on land around Cape Mendocino -- or goes out to sea, depending on your point of view. My chimney came down in that quake.
Yeah, well, Ferndale does have the advantage of no snow, but it is often foggy and damp, even in the summer. Lots of people like Boonville in Northern Calif. I think you would fit in there quite nicely. Boonville, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia or The Moonies... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjBsuagr7PPAhVPyGMKHcVsBU0QFggqMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.people.com%2Fpeople%2Farchive%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2C20071332%2C00.html&usg=AFQjCNE1EHyL6-a8Z4WheSuQ7_DBaCE33g&bvm=bv.134052249,d.cGc
climate sounds perfect, organic food a plus, alcohol on the menu, unification? are they still around?
That's the San Andreas rumbling near the Bombay Beach Club. The Salton Sea was formed, as noted above, by the worst engineering disaster in US history as the Colorado was diverted in an uncontrolled fashion. Farther north is Lake Havasu (of spring break fame) where the Colorado River is diverted into the California Aqueduct, itself a fantastic piece of engineering. Take a piss in Lake Havasu and some in LA's going to drink it. The Aqueduct terminates near Corona/Norco at Lake Matthews in western Riverside County. There are two California State Prisons out there, Calipatria and Centenial. Personally, I love the area.
'and if california slides into the ocean, like the mystics and statistics say it will...' 'california, tumbles into the sea, that'll be the day i go back to annandale...'
