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Lots Of Poking But No Answers On What’s Blocking 99 Tunnel Drill
The Seattle Times ^
| December 30, 2013
| Mike Lindblom
Posted on 01/02/2014 6:59:23 PM PST by Windflier
A half-dozen probes have not hit any huge object in front of Bertha, adding to the mystery of whats blocking the stalled Highway 99 tunnel machine.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mystery; tbm
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To: Windflier
To: 2ndDivisionVet
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022578298_berthaessaysxml.html
One of the local school’s 5th graders are trying to figure it out, and looking at the history of the area. Lots of guesses of trains, etc. that are remnants of old Seattle that ARE buried under the existing surface. But Bertha is 80 feet deep or so, and the old Seattle surface is only down 20 feet or so IIRC. Perhaps to 50 feet in the old bay, but I think Bertha is inland from that now. I think it is in 15,000 year old glacial material.
On the 6-borings spaced 5-feet apart though, that only covers 25 feet wide. Bertha is 58-feet diameter, so seems they have left plenty of room to still miss something big.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:10:40 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: 21twelve
Hey - who left the emergency brake on!? Now that would bring on the biggest facepalm of all time. A Cthulhu face palm.....'cept he don't play that.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:13:11 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: driftdiver
You know that feeling when you get to the end of the cord with your vacuum? You just need another few inches but it wont reach without unplugging. LOL!
I think you just solved it!
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:14:12 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Maybe the tunneling machine just broke down.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:14:30 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Windflier
here is an idea, back the thing up and go look
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:17:53 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Windflier
Lots of Poking and Still NO Answers....Great Title of a Marriage Fable
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:18:54 PM PST
by
corbe
(mystified)
To: Windflier
Big Dig II...
This has “huge Disaster Waiting To Happen” written all over it.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:19:16 PM PST
by
tcrlaf
(Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
It’s like a giant rock-boring clam. cannot back out of its bore.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:19:51 PM PST
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: Windflier
Did it look like this?
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:23:19 PM PST
by
John 3_19-21
(Life is way too short to suffer fools long.)
To: Windflier
***I think someone buried their old spaceship and forgot to turn off the force field. ***
DON'T OPEN IT!
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:23:33 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:24:40 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Windflier
It’s where ALL of the bodies are buried.
Or it’s the underground prison where the 12 Mahdi was being held.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:26:10 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Windflier
It is obvious that it must be a carbonite monolith
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:27:06 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
To: Windflier
To partially quote Churchill “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:29:30 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: John 3_19-21
Hey, that’s cool. I see it’s not an original idea.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:29:43 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: corbe
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:30:17 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Windflier
This should serve as a reminder to you all that if you’re over 50, you need to have a colonoscopy.
To: Windflier
The mole people have their shields up.
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:34:16 PM PST
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Could just be a mom protecting her youngins...
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:36:35 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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