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To: AUH2O Repub
Just another reason to spend government (our tax) money.

If you are ever around Memphis check out the bridges over the interstate (I-40). They have cable jumpers installed on all the bridge beams, apparently to prevent the bridges from collapsing in the event of an earthquake. I noticed it the last time I drove through there. It appears that a lot of money has already been spent on the earthquake that probably won't ever happen.....

8 posted on 09/28/2009 6:58:30 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: Thermalseeker
The New Madrid fault has been used repeatedly by the federal government as an emergency response training scenario - as recently as the "Spill of National Significance" exercise of 2007.

I remember seeing some online reference material for that exercise; the expectation was that every river crossing between St. Louis and Natchez would be destroyed or suffer enough structural damage to close it for weeks, perhaps months. Casualties in Memphis were anticipated at 300K dead.

14 posted on 09/28/2009 7:42:18 AM PDT by Charles Martel (NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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