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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135811)	8/31/2005 3:30:38 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Any suggestions how to accomplish this? They will bandaid it. Pump it out, clean it up, and fix the dikes. Right now, nothing they have tried has worked on the dikes. Fox is on that overpass and getting very emotional about the people stuck there. Not a good thing, IMO.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135811)	8/31/2005 3:31:57 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

That almost sounds like the easy part, compared to the clean up. IIRC, 1/2 of San Francisco is built of sand pulled over from the other half, otherwise, it too would be underwater. Of course, the ramifications are obvious, given the fault geography. There's somethin' wrong everywhere. <g> "Raising the city by about 15 feet should do the trick. Any suggestions how to accomplish this?"

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135811)	8/31/2005 3:40:53 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

No doubt bedrock is so deep they couldn't reach it by pilings, and any fill that they bring in would be so heavy the place would just start sinking again. My suggestion: find stable high ground some place else, move irreplaceable historic structures brick by brick if necessary, and rebuild others with modern engineering suited to the environment. I don't know the geomorphology of the area, but I suspect a suitable 'someplace else' is quite some distance away.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135811)	8/31/2005 4:40:15 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 793843

Nadine, Ever heard of the Seattle underground? John

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (135811)	8/31/2005 5:46:47 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 793843

Nadine, No, I have no idea what they should do. It ain't up to me. They will have to figure it out for themselves.