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Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 09:08 pm: | 
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http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=935735&nav=0RYuBFzm
We're about 4 miles away... still staying at home for now... |
Clif Ashley (Cta586)
| | Posted on Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 10:07 pm: |
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Man, thats nasty stuff. Im sorry to hear about that. Hope all is well for you. |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 06:24 am: |
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Rob,
Good Luck, Hope the winds stay in your favor.
Been a lot of train accidents this year. I hope the NTSB is all over this.
Paul
'00 pig |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:15 am: |
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When I lived in K-town, I would have been about 8 miles from there.... still too close for comfort, and you're a heck of a lot closer....
-L |
muskyman
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:34 am: |
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I bought a house in NJ back in 1988 as I was walking around on the property the afternoon I closed the neighbor walked over to say hello.
he had a news clipping from 1964 showing the house I just bought with train cars folded up in the yard!!!!
they had since banked the corner but it still made me think from time to time. |
Dee
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:37 am: |
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Man stay up wind Rob.... Good thing the Disco has a coved garage now. That shit will make acid rain look like coolaid
Paul the NTSB will recommend higher government subsidy’s to prevent future accidents.... |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:58 am: |
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Dee,
We're not talking Amtrak here.....are we? |
Dee
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 10:46 am: |
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No but ill bet all the train systems run on similar Goverment subsidy’s for fuel and tax breaks |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 12:39 pm: |
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who's the rail operator? I can't find mention of the operator in the papers. Amtrak? Union Pacific? BNSF? |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 01:22 pm: |
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It's a Norfolk-Southern line. (I don't know via the papers or anything, I just know that it was a N-S line when I lived down there.... actually, most of the lines in the area are either N-S or CSX, all coal-related for the most part....)
Oh, here it is....
http://www.msnbc.com/local/KNEWS/KNS_1419843.asp
"Officials with Norfolk Southern Railway called in a Pittsburg clean-up crew that specializes in dealing with sulfuric acid."
-L |
Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:44 pm: |
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Looks like we made it through the worst of it, I'm not sure if those people closer by are able to go home still yet tonight. I haven't been home to watch the news. The disco is still without a garage, still preparing the pad for moving in. Carpet will be there in less than 2 weeks, so I'll be there in 3. And yep, Norfolk Southern was the operator.. I think that the Sulfuric Acid was gov't stuff though, I was hoping that the cloud would float down on over to Cali, you guys wouldn't notice it out there Peace.. Rob |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:57 pm: |
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It seems as if the cargo was all military... even had a couple of M1 Abrams on one of the derailed cars (no, they didn't dump off of there.... that would've been a sight to have seen a couple of rednecks making away with one, running down the road heading for Oliver Springs, trying to hide the thing somewhere.... lol.....).
-L |
Dee
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 12:07 am: |
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Rob, Well am I screwed if a casualty happens?
1/4 mile from house is San Diego’s Petroleum and GNG storage area.
My house in the flight path for the Airport, I get scared when I hear engine sputtering.
Then 25 miles north are 2 really old Nuke Reactors, under my neighborhood runs a large earth quake fault, the big one will happen the day after I mail my last payment...
At my day Job I'm about 500 yards from US Navy Nuke Subs and across the bay from Nuke Aircraft Carriers and also a VERY large ship oil gas line runs under my building.
To top things off there 18 registered Child Molesters in my Zip code most likely kicked out of the east and welcomed here by all these liberal fucks around here...
There are arson set brush fires through out the county constantly, all seem to be set by the illegal aliens and vagrants living in the open areas.
Ethnic gangs who need to support there lifestyle are constantly trying to relive me of my property. Not lately my 150 lb dog scares them away... The worst ones are the elected officials there the worst of the worst.
Then my normal 12 mile 45 minute commute shared with several million other assholes on the freeways really gets my day off to a good start.
Moab isn’t shit Drive Southern Cali freeways.
So a cloud of sulfuric acid does not put much fear in me... We do have Sunshine, although its very tainted with smog at times.... |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:47 am: |
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And after all of that Dee,
I still miss California! |
Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 07:04 am: |
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Wow Dee, that's alot of stuff to have around to worry about. The worst thing probably would be the 45 minute 12 mile commute. I used to have a 20 minute 5 mile commute when I lived in Louisville, KY. Never could understand how so many assholes and morons could be up at 7 in the morning. I guess I was just one of them, but perhaps in denial.. Take care.. Rob |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:29 am: |
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LOL, I have a 45-minute, 40-mile commute..... and with the foilage already starting to turn colorful.....
-L |
Gregg
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:03 am: |
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Nothing worse than my old 45 mile 2 1/2 hour commute in New York. Here in Dallas it's only 45 minutes for 27 miles. Florida was really bad! Dodging whitehairs and rednecks with crown vics and F350's (which I think share a similar platform)! |
KJ
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:44 am: |
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I have a 20 second commute to work, if I stroll and don't hurry. Every job has it's price. I may be smug about my commute time, but y'all will be snug in your beds that cold winter night I'm outside seeing a horse through a colic. Viva la whatever!
Karen |
Dee
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:54 am: |
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LOL, I don’t mind the drive it just having to share my road with all the other assholes with sleep deprivation at 6:30... Rob on the road at 7:00 you wimp... LOL |
p m
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 04:47 pm: |
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Dee,
you're working hard to bring the real estate prices down in San Diego damn... what is there around my pad... can't think of much, even Miramar base craft veer off to the north when they take off!
peter |
Dee Cantrell (Discodad)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:31 pm: |
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Yeah I get shit from my neighbors all the time since I've lived there has been a Land Rover in the drive in some state of repair... |
Eric N (Grnrvr)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:41 pm: |
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Dee, I'd take the sleepy people over the "on the go girl" any day. You know the ones. They're doing their hair, make up, eating, drinking their coffee, and yaking on the phone while trying to drive without taking their face away from the rear view mirror at 70mph in a 35 zone.. Then there is my favorite people of all.. The guys and girls that think that the one car length ahead they got by switching lanes is going to get them some place faster in a traffic jam. First it's the left lane, then the right, then the left again, then the right again. the whole time they are causing a longer delay for the rest of us. One day I'm just going to snap and ramp someones car in traffic and see if I can really drive over it. I miss my 10 minute drive to work.. This 30 minutes crap has to go. I'm so pissed buy the time I get to work that I'm ready to kil some one. However, passing the bike trail durring the summer months and checking out all the bouncing sexy women is always nice |
p m
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:17 pm: |
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LOL Eric,
you should try driving in Russia. they don't really talk or eat behind the wheel, 'cause they just don't have time, and can't take the eyes off the road. Like, if a bus or garbage truck stops suddenly in the right lane, and there's a car behind it, it WILL cut in front of you.
But - it feels like "if somebody cuts you off, he/she's got a reason to hurry," and nobody's feelings seem to get hurt. In three days, I've seen just one accident, and not a single case of "road rage."
my take home was that we're bitching too much
peter |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:33 pm: |
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Hey Dee and Eric,
Every morning I head out of Conshohocken and head down to Boeing on the 476. I set the cruise at 60 mph and it's like I am standing still. People hauling ass by me, doing the make-up thing talking on the cell phone. Anyway, I dropped my pig off today for 30K service and for a loaner I recieved a HSE Freelander. That little car is a rocket compared to the pig. Tomorrow morning's commute will be a bit of fun......
Paul
'00 pig |
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