X-Message-Number: 2375
Subject: CRYONICS Re: Phoenix site - reassurance
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1993 10:18:59 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <>


> From: "Richard Schroeppel" <>
> 
> >A couple of other things to think about in a Phoenix site:
> >
> >(1) Proximity to a flood.  In February, the Gila river flooded near Phoenix,
> >    nearly closing Interstate 10.  Check that the new building is not too
> >    close to a wash, and the relative altitude of the basement.
> 
> No nearby washes.  That area is close to flat, and on the far side of 
> the airport from us is flood diversion dam.  If there was a flood 
> worse than the 3 or 4 500 and 1000 year floods the Phoenix area has 
> seen in the last decade or so, the water would never get very deep 
> because it has so much area to spread out.  And, no basement.  :) 

Flats are precisely the places where you have to worry about flooding.
Look at Iowa for example. 

Myself, I think that reliance on any particular area being fairly
"safe" in terms of weather is foolish. No location on the planet is
"safe" without lots of engineering. The desert has flooding problems.
The north gets snow. Coastal areas get hurricanes. Some places get
earthquakes.

Myself, I would have prefered that rather than simply picking Arizona
because of familiarity that we had looked extensively around the
country. I really have yet to see evidence that a systematic search
was conducted. There are hundreds of regions around the country that
provide enough services and liquid nitrogen. Did we REALLY look at
them all? I've yet to hear if we did.

Perry

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