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To: dynachrome

How does something get buried in 30 feet of dirt?


6 posted on 05/18/2021 7:43:03 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Big flood. 14 washed away.


8 posted on 05/18/2021 7:44:57 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If it was a car found in a lake I’d say insurance fraud.


10 posted on 05/18/2021 7:45:20 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Abbott studied WWII records, scoured the area, and eventually found the machine—which once had been part of a 30-vehicle operation to build a temporary dam. But in 1947, the Buffalo was washed away along with 14 other vehicles in a flood, and has been missing ever since.


12 posted on 05/18/2021 7:47:42 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"How does something get buried in 30 feet of dirt?"

My initial guess would be that that area was once swampy or subject to a great amount of rainfall. Coupled with the weight of the buffalo, it might've just sunk.

13 posted on 05/18/2021 7:47:48 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I asked myself the same question.


16 posted on 05/18/2021 7:53:48 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How does something get buried in 30 feet of dirt


Negative erosion.

Reminded me of a soil conservation study in the 30’s. By plowing so that the plow threw the dirt up hill, they created negative erosion. The practice never caught on.


28 posted on 05/18/2021 8:22:27 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

On purpose and with a bulldozer.


37 posted on 05/18/2021 9:32:37 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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