Lots Of Poking But No Answers On What’s Blocking 99 Tunnel Drill

The Seattle Times ^ | December 30, 2013 | Mike Lindblom

[Windflier]

A half-dozen probes have not hit any huge object in front of Bertha, adding to the mystery of what’s blocking the stalled Highway 99 tunnel machine.

[Libertarian444]

Unions.

[21twelve]

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.

[Windflier]

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.

[Windflier]

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!

[Husker24]

Maybe the tunneling machine just broke down.

[GeronL]

here is an idea, back the thing up and go look

[corbe]

Lots of Poking and Still NO Answers....Great Title of a Marriage Fable

[tcrlaf]

Big Dig II...
This has “huge Disaster Waiting To Happen” written all over it.

[Rio]

It’s like a giant rock-boring clam. cannot back out of its bore.

[John 3_19-21]

Did it look like this?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I think someone buried their old spaceship and forgot to turn off the force field. ***

DON'T OPEN IT!

[Darksheare]

Much preferable.

[Vermont Lt]

It’s where ALL of the bodies are buried.

Or it’s the underground prison where the 12 Mahdi was being held.

[NonValueAdded]

It is obvious that it must be a carbonite monolith

[Mastador1]

To partially quote Churchill “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”

[Windflier]

Hey, that’s cool. I see it’s not an original idea.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/heyho.wav

[rabidralph]

This should serve as a reminder to you all that if you’re over 50, you need to have a colonoscopy.

[gitmo]

The mole people have their shields up.

[C210N]

Could just be a mom protecting her youngins...