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Posted Tue Jul 28 2009: from Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:


	Experts planning for a flood of Noah's Ark proportions http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1248789126 California may be caught in the throes of a years-long drought, but ... crisis experts are now planning for a flood of Noah's Ark proportions. Worried about the long-term effects of climate change, the USGS and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration are co-creating a scenario for a cataclysmic flood across the Golden State. Last year, a USGS-led team of 300 scientists created a detailed scenario for a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Southern California, followed by a "ShakeOut" drill of 5.4 million residents, a disaster preparedness record. Many of the same scientists are now fashioning a hypothetical ARk Storm scenario similar to the mother of all known California floods - the Great Flood of 1861-62.

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'Doc Jim says:

Are they also acquiring two of every kind of beast?