Whittier
About Whittier
Whittier is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Part of the Gateway Cities, the 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km2) city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census. Whittier was incorporated in February 1898 and became a charter city in 1955. The city is named for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is home to Whittier College. The city is surrounded by four unincorporated areas sharing the Whittier name, West Whittier-Los Nietos, North Whittier, South Whittier, and East Whittier, which combined are home to a larger population than Whittier proper.
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There's a receding glacier which is 50 kilometres away and that's destabilised a mountainside, and they think that mountain, if there's any earthquake, that mountain's going to slip and cause a tsunami. Even though it is two hours away by boat, this mountainside, it will hit Whittier in about 20 minutes, the tsunami.
from No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 at 00:10:06 · read transcript
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I thought it was everyone. It turns out there's another tiny block of flats nearby where there's a little bit of overspill, which is so annoying. If the city of Whittier, Alaska could shut that down, so if it was one building, it would be a much better fact. Do we know who is it, sort of the social rejects who live in the smaller building, the people who piss somebody off?
575: No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon, 2025-03-20 · listen
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Coordinates: 33.9656, -118.0244