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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (45269)	2/14/2006 7:41:01 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

FWIW, I agree with you about Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, 'Open Range' & 'Postman'.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (45269)	2/14/2006 12:10:25 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I did like the Postman. Part of it was filmed where I worked on the Mt. Hood National Forest. Those scenes depicting a long steep pipe with water gushing out of the bottom were filmed at Three Links Power Station on the Clackamas River. That power station was at one time the most efficient hydropower installation in the world in terms of kilowatts per gallon of water, owing to the column of about 500 feet. The water supply comes from a man-made lake called Timothy Lake at the crest of the Cascade Mountains. It's impounded there, metered into a stream that flows about ten miles into another manmade lake, from where it enters a huge pipe. The pipe takes the water to the top of the drop, where it is stored temporarily in a small storage pond and then enters a pipe where it has 500 feet of column on top of the turbines. The generators are at the bottom. When they have to shut them down, the remaining water in the pipes gets ejected all the way across the Clackamas River, almost to the highway. It's a closed zone, but if anybody were caught in it, they would be killed. In the Postman scenes, you can see that water spraying out in the background from the set that they built at the top for the movie. I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to baseball. I once went to a semi pro game for the Missoula team called Timberjacks, and won a steak dinner from my program (which I gave to my Mom because I was a kid.) That's all I know about baseball. American Sprite? What can I say that hasn't been said already?