Posted on 02/07/2006 8:20:02 AM PST by gopheraj
Congrats Gopher! Thank you for posting it, I was about to!
*bah* Thanks for the info... and the link. I bookmarked it for later. :)
I hope all these "dots" don't form a real threat.
But if (Heaven Forbid!) a truckload of explosives/chemicals/biologicals
are unleashed, we can't say we didn't have inklings of what was to come.
There's just no way. And who knows, the way they let them across the border, from where too!
CAIR/ACLU cries "Profiling!" in 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 ...
Imagine two Arab-American tanker drivers celebrating Muhammed with 8000 gallons of HAZMAT each, stopping in the bottom of the Holland tunnel, opening their valves and hatches.
That's one explosion that would be felt in DHS headquarters, Congress and the White house.
I'm no engineer, but I hope our tunnel operators have learned from
those tunnel fires in the Alps.
One documentary I saw said that the concrete roof had some melting due
to a semi-truck fire in one of the mountain tunnel.
I'm no engineer either, but I guess about anything will melt if it gets hot enough.
Concrete of course is re-enforced with steel for most any structure. If the steel gets got enough the structure will fail. It's easy to bend a piece of steal once it's red hot.
Even if the concrete isn't hot enough to turn to liquid rock, if the steel gives, it's all over. The concrete can't support it's own weight without it.
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