Re: A line has been drawn in the sand...In the beginning of a CHANGE the patriot is a scarce man,
- From: amatbus2002 <amatbus2002@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
A guy has said some 15 years ago, "Each generation of Americans must
_DEFINE_ what it means to be an American."
Now is our time. Yup, I am searching for "Angels" not (political)
'angles,' to save this country.
Yup, the 1500 pound bomb (concentrated energy) in 1993 couldn't knock
even one of the CORE column down, and an office 1,000 feet could?
GE owns NBC, which is a corporate that is giving millions and millions
in freebies. Does it make much business sense? Of course, it does.
A politician who wouldn't _refuse_ to take in money whether he needs
it or not is a politician bought and sold. Period. It is all about
taking little advantages whenever possible, when someone thinks nobody
is watching. But God is Always watching. Character.
"I am clearly in sentiment with you that every man who is in the vigor
of life, ought to serve his country, in whatever line it requires and
he is fit for." -- George Washington
"I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the
greatest number."-- Abraham Lincoln
"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor
will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that
fire _can_truly_light_the_world._" -- Thomas Jefferson
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today. Let us move forward with _strong_and_active_Faith_." --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an
individual and of nations alike." -- Theodore Roosevelt
" Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith
by my works....You see then that a man is justified by works, and not
by faith only. " James 2:18-26, which reminds me of the parable of
mustard seed that fell among the thorns and did not grow.
God First, Country Second, Party last.
http://www.valleyforgeprayer.com/
*** The Nine Seconds fall-time unravels the WHOLE mystery behind
9/11.
**Have you forgotten that invading Iraq has nothing to do with the
culprits who perpetuated 9/11?
"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with
September 11." --George W. Bush, 9-17-2003, 182 days after the
Invasion of Iraq began
=======================================================
ADS
"I mean [pause]... afterall [semi-pause], this (Saddam) is a guy that
tried to kill my dad." George W. Bush, 9-26-2002, in a fund raising
function for GOP Senate Hopeful John Cornyn in Houston, 380 days
after the tragedy of 911 where he revealed his true intention on his
meaning in a speech on "terrorism"
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KEEPING 'BATHTUB' DRY Experts fight to secure WTC's foundation
By ROBERT INGRASSIA DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, September 22th 2001, 2:23AM
Engineers plan to shore up portions of a huge concrete basin under the
collapsed twin towers to make sure it doesn't give way and flood the
PATH train system.
The 60-foot-deep cavern, known as the "bathtub," housed the foundation
and basement levels of the World Trade Center, keeping out water from
the Hudson River.
When the towers crumbled, some of the basement floors supporting the 3-
foot-thick basin walls collapsed. Portions of the basin are held up
only by rubble.
In the coming weeks, as crews dig deeper into the debris, workers will
install cables and braces to keep the walls from caving in, officials
said.
Where water would go
Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that when cleanup workers remove
material near a wall, it will be done "very, very carefully so there
is no damage to it."
If the bathtub gave way, water would rush into the basement levels.
With nowhere else to go, the water would drain into two PATH tubes
connecting the complex under the Hudson River to the Exchange Place
station in Jersey City.
If enough water entered the tubes, it could eventually reach the PATH
terminus at W. 33rd St. and Sixth Ave. From there, it could seep into
New York City subway tunnels.
Engineers called that scenario highly unlikely, saying that even a
catastrophic failure of the Trade Center retaining walls wouldn't
create a torrent large enough to completely flood the PATH system.
The basin was built over a year in the late 1960s. It spans 16 acres
and reaches down to bedrock. Material from the excavation was used as
fill to expand southern Manhattan into the Hudson River, land on which
Battery Park City was built.
Officials said they're confident they can keep the bathtub walls from
collapsing. The Army Corps of Engineers is monitoring the cavern, and
workers have installed motion sensors near the walls.
"A bathtub collapse is wild speculation," said Daniel Hahn, of Mueser
Rutledge Consulting Engineers, a firm advising the Port Authority on
the cleanup. "In a great number of areas below ground, the basement
floors are in place and are bracing the walls."
Hahn, a former Port Authority engineer who worked on the Trade Center
foundation during its construction, said that any compromised parts of
the walls can be stabilized.
Huge concrete plugs eyed
"We've given the Fire Department methods to make sure the walls stay
vertical," he said.
Still, PATH officials are considering installing huge concrete plugs
in the train tubes leading from the site to New Jersey.
"The plugs would be put in place just in case the water would rise,"
said Dave Jamieson, a Port Authority spokesman. "We don't want to
damage the Exchange Place station."
Millions of gallons of water already have flowed into the PATH tubes
since the Trade Center attack. Officials said much of the water came
from broken mains, firefighters' hoses and rainfall.
During the past several days, contractors working for PATH have been
pumping water from the tubes at a rate of 2,000 to 4,000 gallons a
minute. Crews have installed pumps in the Exchange Place station, fed
large hoses into the tubes and pumped the water into the Hudson.
Jamieson said workers have plugged broken mains that were causing much
of the runoff from the Trade Center. He said all of the water has been
pumped from one of the PATH tubes, and a minimal amount remains in the
other.
Graphic: 16 ACRES OF TROUBLE
When the 110-story towers of World Trade Center were under
construction in the late 1960s, a 16-acre basin was laid deep in the
Earth to protect the excavation site and surrounding streets and
buildings.
Some basement floors supporting the 60-foot-deep basin ? the so-called
bathtub ? collapsed when the towers crumbled, leaving only rubble
holding up parts of it.
PLUGGING
THE TUBES
A collapse of the bathtub?s retaining walls would send water into the
Trade Center foundation. It would drain into the PATH tubes. Enough of
a flood could compromise subway tunnels. Engineers may use giant plugs
to seal the Trade Center PATH tubes as a precaution.
Engineers plan
to fortify portions of the bathtub with cables and braces to keep them
from
collapsing
as crews
remove debris.
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