Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:12:59 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

Glad you and yours are safe. Earthquakes seem a minor nuisance compared to
this.

Hye, if you are smart enough to build a house with a basement you can
hide from most tornados, but how do you hide from an earthquake?

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Jim




Downtown is a weird scene of utter pandemonium, combined with the
ambience of an all-night kegger. All the college kids -- 35,000 of
them -- are out partying, surveying the changed streetscape. The roof
of a gas station was lifted up, moved about six feet toward the street,
and then dropped back down, destroying everything inside. Cars are
upside down, and one was evidently sucked off the top of a six-story
parking ramp, and dropped into the street.