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Lots Of Poking But No Answers On What’s Blocking 99 Tunnel Drill
The Seattle Times ^ | December 30, 2013 | Mike Lindblom

Posted on 01/02/2014 6:59:23 PM PST by Windflier

A half-dozen probes have not hit any huge object in front of Bertha, adding to the mystery of what’s blocking the stalled Highway 99 tunnel machine.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mystery; tbm
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Maybe they found all the missing socks.


41 posted on 01/02/2014 7:37:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Windflier

They must have found Gandalf. And he’s not gonna let’em pass :-)


42 posted on 01/02/2014 7:38:27 PM PST by sourcery (Valid rights must be perfectly reciprocal.)
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To: NonValueAdded

43 posted on 01/02/2014 7:39:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: rabidralph
This should serve as a reminder to you all that if you’re over 50, you need to have a colonoscopy.

Tunnel boring machines remind you of a colonoscopy? Ouch!

44 posted on 01/02/2014 7:42:13 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Check out what they’ve been digging underground...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcMrIAFbmE

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvobMUgeds


45 posted on 01/02/2014 7:43:06 PM PST by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: Windflier

Endangered Snail Darter.


46 posted on 01/02/2014 7:43:31 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: corbe
Lots of Poking and Still NO Answers....Great Title of a Marriage Fable

Uh.....you're digging for answers in the wrong place .. LOL

47 posted on 01/02/2014 7:43:55 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

It’s the curse of Chief Seattle.


48 posted on 01/02/2014 7:43:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: ez

Seattle dose have an underground part of the city. I can’t post the link from my phone, look it up. Seattle underground


49 posted on 01/02/2014 7:50:58 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I wear gloves when I wash my hands,)
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To: ez
Check out what they’ve been digging underground...

Oh yeah. I've seen videos of that facility before. It's not secret. There are no guards. It's just an old salt mine that's been turned into the world's largest warehouse.

Leave it to Jesse Ventura to set up the video to make like he's some kind of spy, getting into a secret government complex. What a hoot.

50 posted on 01/02/2014 7:52:45 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ThomasThomas
Seattle dose have an underground part of the city.

Yeah, but that only goes about twenty feet underground. The tunnel is already eighty feet below grade level.

51 posted on 01/02/2014 7:54:10 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Trivia alert. Seattle is the source of the original term, “Skid Row”. It was the path where the logs were skidded from the outlying areas to the mills on the water. It turned into a great place for the girls and saloons to ply their wares.


52 posted on 01/02/2014 8:05:35 PM PST by Portcall24
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To: BenLurkin
99 luftballoons
53 posted on 01/02/2014 8:06:55 PM PST by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Windflier
That's right. Our drill seems to have hit something metallic.

It sounds like it might be hollow inside, but our drills won't even scratch the surface.

What should we do?

54 posted on 01/02/2014 8:17:22 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Windflier

Some self-appointed genius tripped over the extension cord.


55 posted on 01/02/2014 8:34:18 PM PST by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: GeronL

In the longer article it says they are doing that - today I think. The wells are to bring down the groundwater and pressure so they can see. The machine can only back up 2-3 feet though.


56 posted on 01/02/2014 8:58:28 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Windflier

Time for some explosives!
http://www.utec-corp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/explosives-testing.jpg


57 posted on 01/02/2014 9:02:10 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: 21twelve

Within the next week I want the headline to show:

“Bertha and Percy Harvin are at 100%!”


58 posted on 01/02/2014 9:02:14 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: cripplecreek

That would make a cool refrigerator for Sheldon and Leonard!


59 posted on 01/02/2014 9:04:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: 21twelve

it can only back up 2 or 3 feet?

I think that is a design flaw, considering its pretty much stuck there for now.


60 posted on 01/02/2014 9:06:16 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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