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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,
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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.