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To: Poet who wrote (320)	11/4/2001 11:32:40 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

>>could trigger “the big one”<< Wasn't there a Batman movie about this? <g>

To: Poet who wrote (320)	11/5/2001 2:44:45 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

Hi Poet, Re: create a disaster bigger than the WTC attacks. Unless, they could somehow trigger a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The Loma Prieta Quake of 1989 registered 7.1 on the Richter scale. The Golden Gate bridge remained unscathed. Yet seismic improvements are ongoing on the bridge. My point is that it'll take something bigger to damage the bridge. A highly unlikely scenario. Here's my paranoid vision: When I heard the comments from Grey Davis last week regarding the fact that some suitcases were found adjacent to the Golden Gate bridge, my immediate reaction was to recall all of the efforts on the part of the authorities to control homeless encampments in San Francisco. I envisioned some homesteader haplessly setting up camp under the bridge, and his kit becoming the subject of a vast paranoid reaction, concluding that if a bum could be in that part of the GGNRA, so could a bogey. There may be a more credible threat than that to the bridge, but from the information we're given by the politicians and the media, inquiring minds are left to wander down the hallways of speculation regarding the agendas of the pols and the media, more so than the terrorists. I've biked across the bridge, I've hiked adjacent to its anchorages and I can attest that it'd take way more than a suitcase bomb to do any significant damage to the structure. Besides which, the surveillance on the bridge was substantial, even 10 years ago. Like I say, I think some bum was just trying his best to get by with a little camp in the brushy manzanita undergrowth near the bridge, unless and until I get credible information otherwise. I'm reminded that the bridge is about 2 miles from Bobby McFerrin's house, so "don't worry, be happy." Cheerio, Ray :)