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To: EnjoyingLife

Concrete without steel in it is just not resistant to shaking. I lived in Istanbul as a child in the 50s and I remember every time there was a little shock that might move my bed at night an inch or make me skip a step, a couple of apartment buildings would collapse. I saw one of them after such a joltlet. It was just a pile of rubble. I remember my dad looking at the debris and saying,”No steel, what were they thinking?”


30 posted on 02/14/2010 6:37:21 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: arthurus
Q:”No steel, what were they thinking?”

A: $$$

46 posted on 02/14/2010 7:07:26 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (happily replying to threads without reading the articles since 2002)
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