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Would anyone be willing to make some accurate-scale maps centered at any or all of the following locations in Wyoming? Links to Google Maps and/or GeoHack provided. Arranged in order of preference: -Afton (southern half of Star Valley), -the Green River Lakes at the NW end of the Wind River Range, including Squaretop Mountain, and Gannett Peak if possible, -Cody, -halfway between Green River and Rock Springs, including both, -Lander, -Thermopolis, -Pinedale, -Sheridan. My thanks to any takers! drunkapple, that Mt. Whitney map looks super awesome.

Originally posted by: blade2k5 Bahrain, Malta and the Channel Islands Map Pak 2 are now available on the STEX.quote> Woohoo! XD

^Looking forward to 'em!

Originally posted by: blade2k5 I hear State Street has changed quite a bit since I was last in Cali waaaay back in '84 [i left in March that year and haven't been back since]. I wonder Picadilly Square is still there or not. I grew up on the Mesa about a uarter mile of Cliff Drive, attended Monroe Elementry, La Cumbre Jr. High and Santa Barbara High. Used to rock climb every chance I got up at Gilbralter's Rock near La Cumbre Peak. Also, the old Arlington Theater [or Fox Theater] is where I saw Star Wars in July of '77 for the first time and spent every day there afterwards going back again and again to see the film. Probably saw it about 100 times that summer. I also went there to attend the first concert I snagged tickets for the then new band Asia in May of '82. If you're interested, I have a LEX Exclusive map of Santa Barbara, my first accurately scaled map from a few years ago. quote> Although it's obviously not the same as seeing it for yourself, you can probably see what it all looks like now with Google Maps and Street View... I'm sure that quite a few things have indeed changed there in the last 27 years! Thinking about how much little Moorpark has changed in the mere seven years since I moved away just blows my mind. And I did already download your map of Santa Barbara off the BSC LEX, too. If you're referring to something else though, I would certainly be interested.

I currently live too far inland, in Fontana, but I grew up through the 90's in Ventura County. I lived in Moorpark, went to school in Somis, went to church in T.O., shopped in Simi and Oxnard... Anacapa is the only one of the Channel Islands I've visited (8th grade field trip), but I'm hoping to visit Santa Cruz and/or Catalina sometime in the next few months, if I can scrounge up the cash. I drove through Santa Barbara on the way back from a work-related trip about a year ago, just after sunset on a Saturday, and I couldn't believe how awesome State Street is. I've been itching to go back, but I just can't seem to get away. I'm just generally fascinated with the islands, especially San Clemente, because it has so much potential beyond being a Naval facility. I imagine it could look a lot like the Fillmore-Santa Paula area (small cities and a lot of fruit trees), but with an ocean instead of mountains surrounding it. To me, that would be paradise.

Thanks very much for taking the time to do these!

Blade, those look absolutely awesome! Your "unnamed" island is San Nicolas Island, and I absolutely cannot wait to get my hands on your map of San Clemente! It's gonna be perfect for the capital city of my CJ. Woohoo!

Thanks for the link! 

Fantastic!

^^ Thanks!

^^ Awesome.

Scientists had been warning us about this for decades. Aaaaand, as usual, most people didn't care much. Most people had no idea how to deal with it. Oh, sure, there are earthquakes all the time in LA. Get a five-pointer about once a year or two, and that'll get everybody interested for a couple of weeks. But they all had their daily lives to occupy them the rest of the time. Twenty million daily lives. It's a nearly incomprehensible number, especially now. So, it seems like almost nobody was expecting it when it happened, even though everybody was expecting it eventually. On December 17th, 2027, at 12:36 pm, Southern California was obliterated. [The USGS has prepared a number of videos of the scenario I am about to describe, which can be viewed here.] The event began when the tiny town of Bombay Beach, on the eastern shore of the Salton Sea, exploded. The blast of seismic energy radiating out of the focus of the quake a mile and a half directly below lifted the entire town into the air, dropped it, and throttled apart whatever was left. The force of the rupture spread outward in all directions, then began to power northwest, along the edge of the sea. The fault rupture raced into the Coachella Valley, shredding apart Indio, Palm Springs, and everything in between, with twisting waves of rock and liquefied sand. As the earthquake continued along the line through the Banning Pass and into the San Bernardino Mountains, thousands of landslides began to pour downhill. The temblor emerged from the mountains and plowed with full force into the city of San Bernardino, built right along the edge of the fault. The runways of the airport cracked, jumped, skewed apart. Houses collapsed into the shifting fault. High-rises built above a high water table sunk into the sandy swamp that flooded Downtown. The seismic waves reached a wedge. The San Gabriel mountains split the geological bullet in half. The main rupture continued through the Cajon Pass into the Mojave desert, where it ate Victorville, and annihilated Lancaster and Palmdale, before finally stopping, after two hundred miles, in the Antelope Valley. The waves themselves continued on, splitting into the Santa Clarita Valley and Ventura, and roaring through the Tejon Pass and making a mess of Bakersfield. The first deflected waves bounced around the valleys of the Inland Empire before passing into the soft sediments of the San Gabriel Valley and the Los Angeles Basin, which always act more like jell-o than rock during a major temblor. The resilient granite mountains surrounding the basin reflected and focused the earthquake's strongest force yet into the worst possible place. East Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Watts, South Gate. The people of the Harbor Gateway cities, among the most thoroughly poor places in California, were enveloped in an apocalyptic nightmare of converging, redoubling crests of sand and rock, while homes, warehouses, freeways, and power lines twisted and disintegrated all around them. One older skyscraper in Downtown Los Angeles crumbled apart when a fissure opened beneath it, and nearly all the other towers shed their façades, but somehow remained intact structurally. The waves continued through the West Side into Santa Monica, where towers built along bluffs crumbled onto the beach below. A landslide on the Palos Verdes peninsula sent a small tsunami across the channel to Catalina, where the Avalon waterfront was washed away... All the major highways into Greater LA were cut apart where they crossed the faultline. High voltage electric transmission lines were downed across the region. Water, gas, and sewer lines were broken everywhere, spreading floods, fire, and disease. In those three minutes, an estimated seventy-five thousand lives were lost. Over five million people were rendered permanently homeless, and all the rest left to struggle for their lives. Looting began immediately. Fires burned uncontrolled for weeks, until they ran out of combustible fuel. No government had any hope of restoring order to the region. Helicopters from San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas began air dropping food and medical supplies the day after, but the packages were overrun by desperation, and gangs looking for power. By day three, the situation dissolved into total anarchy. Refugees began to pour out of the region by the tens of thousands. Until the siege. National Guard and Army units were deployed at checkpoints in the mountain passes, at Camp Pendleton, and in Santa Barbara, in hopes of preventing unaffected cities from being swamped by the desperate homeless. The decision was made to attempt restore order to the region from the sea. The Navy's Amphibious landing ships would go ashore along Santa Monica Bay, bringing with them the needed medical supplies and food... and Martial Law. This would prove a far greater disaster. * * * * * Next update: San Miguel Colony. (And I promise that there will be no more walls of text like this!)