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Thanks nc, that's a long haul.
btw, a sidebar — the actor John Barrymore was an alcoholic, tended to binge though; he was drinking in some SF saloon, so the story goes, was told he couldn’t be served any more, he paid, the quake started, he staggered across the street as the town was shaking, and he didn’t notice. He entered a different saloon, sat down, and ordered a drink.
interesting... the wiki-wacky sez, [snip] While in San Francisco in The Dictator, Barrymore was caught in the 1906 earthquake; he was thrown into the bath by the first shock. He helped troops to clear the roads. John Drew wryly noted that “it took a convulsion of Nature to get him into a bathtub and the United States Army to make him work”. [/snip]