Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:35:33 -0500
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: the wrath of goat


David James wrote:
> 
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010301/ts/quake_seattle_dc_14.html
> ...
> The quake struck moments before Schell was to give a news conference to
> explain how Mardi Gras celebrations on Tuesday night got out of control,
> injuring 70 people and prompting police to fire tear gas and rubber pellets
> to disperse crowds.
> 
> ``I was about to go into that news conference. I knew right away what it
> was. It was a terrifying moment,'' he told CNN.
> 
> It was the region's first big quake since a 6.5 tremor rocked the area on
> April 29, 1965. A 7.1-magnitude quake in 1949 killed eight people.
> 
> Wednesday's quake cracked the dome of the state Capitol in Olympia, sent
> bricks tumbling from historic buildings in Pioneer Square, the nation's
> first skid row, trapped people at the top of Seattle's landmark World's Fair
> Space Needle, triggered landslides that plugged the river that delivers the
> city's water and led to the temporary closure of the Seattle-Tacoma airport.
> 
> The quake also cracked the famous Boeing field where the aerospace giant
> tests its planes, cut power to 200,000 in the western part of the state,
> damaged windows at the corporate campus of software giant Microsoft Corp.
> and jolted the headquarters of coffee giant Starbucks.
> ...
> Locke said damage was primarily structural. ``A lot of overpasses and roads
> ... have sunk,'' he added, noting the governor's mansion and Capitol
> building in Olympia sustained heavy damage.

Sounds like an anarchist dream to me. Lots of capitalist businesses and
government buildings damaged. Very few workers hurt or killed.

Chuck0