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ancianita

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14. I just moved permanently from Chicago to my Fla winter home. My Huntington Beach stay was
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 04:11 PM
Oct 2021

during a month long road trip I took around the continent in 2018. I was moving up the lower coast on my way to visit a friend in Pasadena and a childhood friend in Northridge. I spent two nights right on Huntington Beach. Sorry for the confusion.

How little power locals have over offshore commercial zones is a maritime agreement set up before we were born, sadly. The news reports that no one seems to know who the rig's owner is, either. Figures.

Thanks for the interesting info about tar seepage. I've recently read about oil use dating back to Herodotus, indigenous people's use of it for waterproofing canoes, etc., and that the history I was taught about the US being the first to drill isn't even true, that drilling was already going on in Canada. Amazing.

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