Don't Trust Snakes: "Also, don't cross the streams."

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

"Also, don't cross the streams."

PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. - Hurricane Ike warning from the National Weather Service

Apparently one of the lessons of Katrina was that you need to get people's full attention. An interesting semantic question arises: if you "face certain death", does that mean you will certainly die? Or would you merely be up against the prospect of certain death, certain to die only if things broke the wrong way?

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