To: Spktyr
Re: 'The armor and hull is made of some of the thickest, most homogenous steel ever produced by man. A hurricane isn't going to do anything to it if the hatches are closed. In fact, even a tsunami probably wouldn't do much to the hull.
'On top of that and unlike a building, it *floats*. "What storm surge?"'
Yes, but an unpowered 45,000 ton battleship floating in Mobile Bay at the mercy of the winds would not be a good thing...
3,054 posted on
08/29/2005 10:14:23 AM PDT by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: sonofatpatcher2
It's *still* better than an unpowered multiton building that just came off the foundation or flooded up to the roof.
3,350 posted on
08/29/2005 11:03:05 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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