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I like living up a hill sometimes.
Sometimes, yes, but, as Plato says in the Timaeus:

There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth, which recurs after long intervals; **at such times those who live ****upon the mountains and in dry and lofty places are more liable to destruction **than those who dwell by rivers or on the seashore.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html

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