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I live in Portland but will be in Seattle on Friday, so I'll miss that game. I'm hoping we make it to the elite 8 so I can go on Sunday. Definitely a lot of Gonzaga people around here, and I've seen a fair number of Stanford stickers on cars. Texas got screwed on this location, but I'm excited to see them, if I can.
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I did put a big scratch on the drivers side door from a tree branch on engineer pass. It was still there when I sold it 15 years later at 260,000 miles.
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Yeah, that bottleneck at the I-5 bridge going north to Vancouver along with the I-5 bridge over the Columbia itself is one of the worst spots on I-5. Hard to get Washington and Oregon to agree on how to fix it. Here's a disaster simulation showing what would happen to the Burnside Bridge. Plans are moving forward to rebuild it so it will survive a big quake, but that process in itself will be a bitch. All the other bridges over the willamette with the exception of the new pedestrian mass transit bridge are assumed to likely collapse, I believe, in the event of the Cascadia Subduction Quake, which there is a 40 % chance will happen in the next 50 years. Simulation shows how the Burnside bridge would also collapse onto I-5, which you are right has some elevated sections itself.
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Yeah, I always think about the 1989 World Series Earthquake and the highway collapse when I'm stuck in traffic on the Marquam (I-5 over the Willamette) or the Fremont (I-405) Bridge in Portland. At least there is a nice view of downtown and Hood, St Helens, etc... If there is a big Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake during rush hour, that will suck. I guess it's lucky that the 1989 Earthquake happened during the World series between the Giants and the A's so there were a lot more people off the roads watching the game.
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This one in Astoria always concerns me a bit. Not to mention all the bridges in Portland knowing they will pretty much all collapse when the great Cascadia Megaquake happens
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I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned
Grande Mart replied to locodos's topic in Daily Texan
There was a Sirloin Stockade or something like that in my home town that once had "Try our smothered tips" on their sign in front of the resturant. I decided to get a t from somewhere and rearrange a few letters and change it to "Try our mother's tits" . Giggled for years when I would pass that spot. -
2024 NCAA Tournament - Second Round Games - Saturday/Sunday
Grande Mart replied to Pancho's topic in Basketball
Ku sucks at basketball. Not good timing with Zona coming into the conference and Houston kicking ass -
I remember as a kid all the grandfathers were WW2 vets, some of the dads were vietnam vets. The old 100 year old guys that were dying were WW1 vets,---Growing up in the late 70's and 80's
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My wife's grandfather was in one of the army air bases in Hawaii on Dec 7. He wouldn't talk about it much , but he did tell me once about dragging guys from a burning building, he had burn scars on his forearms. he was back in action by guadalcanal and served for the duration in the pacific. One of the most awesome guys I know. He was out drinking the night before since it was saturday night. He died recently at the age of 103. In his 80's he helped me build a fence around a half acre lot in August in central Texas. In the afternoon, I got tired of working and said let's call it a day and finish up tomorrow. He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "there's still daylight." So we kept working,
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when bodies on one side are worth less than bullets on the other side
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