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On 8/25/11 7:29 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:27 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:58:06 -0600,
wrote:

On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:
Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...t_8641358.html

I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wmdJ_blog.html

Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.


The monument was not retrofitted to resist earthquakes.

You can't "resist earthquakes", you idiot. You can, however, make a
building not suffer damage in a relatively strong earthquake. Mostly by
making the building less stiff.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:29:39 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:27 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:58:06 -0600, Canuck57
wrote:

On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:
Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...t_8641358.html

I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wmdJ_blog.html

Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.

I guess you forgot who was in control of BOTH houses in 1996...

January 3, 1995: Republicans gained control of both houses for the
first time since the 1950s.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:52:32 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:55:08 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:29:39 -0400, wrote:


Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.

I guess you forgot who was in control of BOTH houses in 1996...

January 3, 1995: Republicans gained control of both houses for the
first time since the 1950s.

Target paid for the restoration.

So, we're supposed to rely on Target for our national monuments?
That's what it's come to? That's what you're advocating??

On 25/08/2011 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:27 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:58:06 -0600,
wrote:

On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:
Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...t_8641358.html

I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wmdJ_blog.html

Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.

I remember it was closed right after 9/11 for renovations as we went to
DC Smithsonians not a month after 9/11. Figured we would miss the
crowds and were we right.

People thought we were nuts, bunch of scared monkeys. When we got there,
2 uniforms on one corner and 2 suits on the other, with very few people
in sight, no line-ups at all. Saw more of DC in 4 days than one would
see in 2 weeks with normal crowds. Didn't see anyone even litter it was
so well organized and orderly. Got cheap rates too. Never once had to
wait in line or for a second bus.

The only way to see DC. Priceless.

But makes me wonder, can't they fix it for more than 10 years at a go?

--
If it is all Bush's fault, then how come Obama is doing much more of the
same and expecting different results?

On 8/26/11 5:26 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 25/08/2011 5:29 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:12:27 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:58:06 -0600,
wrote:

On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:
Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...t_8641358.html


I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just
shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...wmdJ_blog.html


Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.

I remember it was closed right after 9/11 for renovations as we went to
DC Smithsonians not a month after 9/11. Figured we would miss the crowds
and were we right.

People thought we were nuts, bunch of scared monkeys. When we got there,
2 uniforms on one corner and 2 suits on the other, with very few people
in sight, no line-ups at all. Saw more of DC in 4 days than one would
see in 2 weeks with normal crowds. Didn't see anyone even litter it was
so well organized and orderly. Got cheap rates too. Never once had to
wait in line or for a second bus.

The only way to see DC. Priceless.

But makes me wonder, can't they fix it for more than 10 years at a go?


They didn't do a seismic retrofit, moron.


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powerful.

On Aug 25, 2:58*pm, Canuck57 wrote:
On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:

Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...st-coast-quake...

I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ngton-monument...

--
If it is all Bush's fault, then how come Obama is doing much more of the
same and expecting different results?

Those are some pretty good shots , of course there has been cracks in
it for some time, but nothing of structure to cause panic, but I think
this will get someones attention. With some federal funding and a
bunch of corporate and private donations, I imagine it will be
repaired better than new. It worked for the Statue of Liberty.

On 8/25/2011 7:37 PM, Tim wrote:
On Aug 25, 2:58 pm, wrote:
On 24/08/2011 8:39 PM, Tim wrote:

Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...st-coast-quake...

I would not doubt the cracks were already there and the quake just shook
them loose.

But not sure I would want to be too close to it when she goes.

Some better picks and details.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ngton-monument...

--
If it is all Bush's fault, then how come Obama is doing much more of the
same and expecting different results?

Those are some pretty good shots , of course there has been cracks in
it for some time, but nothing of structure to cause panic, but I think
this will get someones attention. With some federal funding and a
bunch of corporate and private donations, I imagine it will be
repaired better than new. It worked for the Statue of Liberty.

I have to wonder if some honest engineer is gonna' look at the cracks in
those big blocks and say, "it can't be made safe"... I am not saying it
can't, but with such big cracks, in such significant structural
components, I have to wonder.

Tim wrote:
Looks like the Washington monument got some pretty good cracks in it's
walls on this one....

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/...t_8641358.html
Maybe that epoxy company that supplied the "Big Dig" has a cure.

On 8/23/2011 4:26 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:47:55 -0400, X ~
wrote:

The epicenter wasn't that far from the nuke plant on Lake Anna. Sure
hope there's no problem there...

The oprator was on CNN saying they had no problems in the plant itself
and the diesels are running because the utility power failed, not all
that unusual.

They are not going to have a tsunami so all of the Japanese analogies
will not apply.

Apparently Obama plans a speech to assure America that he had nothing to
do with the East Coast Earthquake. Evidently the quake occurred on a
little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault"

LOL! Stolen from another group..

On 8/23/11 5:12 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 8/23/2011 4:26 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:47:55 -0400, X ~
wrote:

The epicenter wasn't that far from the nuke plant on Lake Anna. Sure
hope there's no problem there...

The oprator was on CNN saying they had no problems in the plant itself
and the diesels are running because the utility power failed, not all
that unusual.

They are not going to have a tsunami so all of the Japanese analogies
will not apply.

Apparently Obama plans a speech to assure America that he had nothing to
do with the East Coast Earthquake. Evidently the quake occurred on a
little known fault line outside of DC called "Bush's Fault"

LOL! Stolen from another group..


What group? The group of mindless morons?

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