World News | Adam Nagourney, The New York Times | Monday January 2, 2012
For all its considerable delights, Southern California always seems faintly on the cusp of an apocalypse. There are palm trees, year-round gardens and splendid weather - it was 81 degrees and sunny on Sunday - but there are also mudslides, gang shootings, wildfires and earthquakes.
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