[PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?

[Ken & Tracie]

Hmmm, it may have been an offshoot of that e-mail exchange about the Silver 
Bridge collapse, the condition of the Smithfield Street Bridge, 
Pittsburgh's "Three Sisters" (ah, back on topic) and the slides you took of 
the "bridge to nowhere."

Or maybe I discussed it with somebody else.

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:20 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?


>I don't think we did.
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> Ken & Tracie wrote:
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>> Fred, on our road trip to SLC, didn't we discuss some of the dams and
>> bridges built across the Mississippi River since the last New Madrid 
>> quake?
>> I have friends and family in both the Midwest and the Great Lakes regions
>> and I admit, I think about the New Madrid fault from time to time.
>>
>> Plus all those tornadoes and remnants of hurricanes that cruise through 
>> the
>> vicinity...:-O
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 10:38 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?
>>
>> > It can happen anywhere Herb.  It is just more likely to happen in 
>> > places
>> > like California, Italy, Alaska, Iceland.   I think the most severe 
>> > quake
>> > in recorded North American history was in New Madrid, Mo.  If I 
>> > remember
>> > my geology courses well enough, it was said to have rung church bells 
>> > in
>> > Boston.  But it did no damage because no one lived in the Mississippi
>> > River valley yet ... or rather no one of white European descent.
>> >
>> > I had my hand in my dogs mouth one night trying to extricate something 
>> > he
>> > should not have picked up.  And a minor earthquake struck here in
>> > Lancaster.  Only 4.5 ...  one 700th or so of the one you describe.  But
>> > every hair on that dogs back stood up.  And the last place I want my 
>> > hand
>> > is in the mouth of a scared Dobermann.
>> >
>> > hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
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>> >> Yes, Camelot until the ground starts shaking at something above 6.0 on
>> >> the scale for such happenings. I was in SF in Jan, 1980 and had 
>> >> applied
>> >> to both Contra-Costa Transit and SF Muni Railway and WAS planning to 
>> >> move
>> >> there. I never dreamed that a frame house could sway from side to side
>> >> with such violence and remain standing and that streetcar tracks could
>> >> become "fluid" and look like four snakes twisting down a street and 
>> >> then
>> >> return to their normal position without being bent. Needless to say I
>> >> returned to Pittsburgh.
>> >> HrB
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > SF Ideal for Working, temperature wise  --  Camelot  --  only rains 
>> >> > in
>> >> > the Winter  --  now If Only we could get it to Only Rain from 4-PM 
>> >> > til
>> >> > 2-AM while working  --  Tanfastic!!!!!!!
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Jim__Holland
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>> >> >
>> >> > down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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