Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:28:10 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: We survived the earthquake Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010228192623.048c4bd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010228182917.7d640fe1.chip@wiegand.org>
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Wow.... An earthquake in San Jose and now one three days later in Seattle. Better get lots of duct tape.... The whole Left Coast is falling off! Seriously, hope all is OK there. --Brett At 07:29 PM 2/28/2001, Chip Wiegand wrote: >Well, my family and I survived the earthquake today. And none of my >computers or printers fell on the floor, though a few of my wifes >things did, nothing damaged though. My cat must've been going crazy. >Anybody else on this list live in the Puget Sound region? How'd you >do? >At work everyone just headed out to the parking lot, where we could >feel the ground rolling in waves, quite unnerving. The lot next to >ours is under construction and there's one of those tall spindly >cranes over there, probable a couple hundred feet high. The guy up >at the top was out of the control room and standing out on the arm >of the crane waving his arms around. Man, he must've been rattled >to the bones! He didn't go back into the control room for about 20 >minutes after that, just standing out on the arm of the crane, >probably getting himself back together. > >Anyway, just thought I'd pass along a few thoughts in the aftermath >of the quake. I live about 15 miles north of Seattle, there were no >damaged buildings up here, but Seattle has quite a mess to clean up. > >Regards, >-- >Chip Wiegand >Alternative Operating Systems >www.wiegand.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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