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Here is your flashlight king, fireworks commissioner, and keeper of common sense.

The only Jo Suschina.

I'm looking at a big story in the Los Angeles Times about a problem of nature which we can't control.

It does sound terribly significant. It's in a part of the world I'm familiar with.

It's in Imperial County near the salt and sea which is, oh, I don't know, south and

east of Palm Springs area. Okay, right.

And what's happening is there's a muddy spring that's mysteriously moving towards railroad tracks,

a pipeline, and a highway threatening to destroy them. There's no evidence suggesting this is

an immediate precursor to a large earthquake said US Geological Survey Geophysicist Kent

Hudnut who visited the moving spring in July. In fact, the area has been seismically quiet.

Hudnut and other, that's a funny name isn't it Hudnut? Well, we were just joking about.

I'm sure you were. Kent Hudnut, you really have to stop and think about what you're saying.

Can, can Hudnut. Oh, can not can. He's the owner of the mud spring.

Hudnut and other experts stress the movement is not seismic activity,

but it's occurring partly as a result of historic earthquake activity that caused cracks,

allowing gases produced deep underground to reach the surface. The biggest worry is that

the slow moving scientific mystery could become destructive in other ways. In its path are

Union Pacific freight railroad tracks that connect the inland empire to Yuma, Arizona.

A petroleum pipeline owned by Kinder Morgan, one of North America's largest energy companies.

A stretch of fiber optic telecommunications lines owned by Verizon and a portion of Highway 111,

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