[rescue] Q: moving medium heavy things

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 09:33:16 (-0400), William Enestvedt wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Q: moving medium heavy things
>
>    Also, I understand that many plant roofs are intended to blow off in the
> event of a disaster without crushing everything below them, as a heavy roof
> would if it collapsed.

I suppose that sometimes works where tornados or hurricanes or whatever
are more common than snow...  ;-)

>    Which reminds me: has anyone here ever read "To Engineer is Human"? It's
> an account of the engineering lessons learned from disasters like the Tacoma
> Narrows Bridge, the Kansas City hotel pedestrian bridge that collapsed, etc.
> Kind of a scary read...

Read it, re-read it, read most of his other books (and have my own copy
of each that I've read), and have a spare copy of that one to give to
any friend who is interested (because I try never to lend any of my own
books)..... (but sorry, I won't "ship" it....)

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