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With all the natural disasters that have been occuring lately, Forbes has decided to create a list of the safest places to live in The United States. While I will let you go and check out the list for yourself, I just wanted you to know that I, apparently, grew up in a very safe place. At least in a natural-disaster-prone kind of way.

My home town of Mattawa, WA, while not on the list, is located kind of between Yakima, WA and the Richland-Kennewick-Pasco, WA area (or the Tri-Cities area as we call it there). You can see its proximity to both cities if you zoom out on the Google Map a couple of times. Yakima is to the west and a shade south, and Tri-Cities to the South-East.

Never thought I would see those places listed numbers 4 and 6 on any list of best places to live. Not that they aren’t nice areas, it just seems that these lists usually stick to larger cities.

Bonus Info: The town that is labeled as Desert Airport in the Google Map of Mattawa is actually wrong. The town is called Desert Aire. While it does have an “airport” (if a landing strip and a hangar or two counts as an airport in your book) it is more known for its golf course and proximity to the river.

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Posted by JR  on  09/23  at  02:09 PM

howdy,  sorry to leave this comment on this post, but frankly i couldnt find an email address for you on this site.  my question for you is how were you able to create a “photos” page in your wp-admin, and then link it to the gallery.php???  The probably obvious answer is to just hack your .htaccess file to do a Rewrite,  but the problem with this is its hard to maintain because if I add a new page, then wordpress automatically re-generates the .htaccess overwriting the hack….. so unless I use some sort of a template or something to make it point to the correct gallery.php page, it will add some non-sensicle Rewrites to make it point back to index.php (as the default template).  I heard mention of a Flickr-Gallery template you can use, but i’ll be damned if i can find any helpful information on that anywhere on the web.  Just interested to see if you found a clever solution for this.  Thanks for the help!