[...] > No, no confusion at all. In this part of the world a grain elevator > is just as you say it is. The West (where we grow most of our wheat) > used to have one in every town. Not so much any more due to the way > commodities are shipped and (not) warehoused. We also used to have > huge concrete ones in the major port cities, but they're obsolete now > - where they still exist, they're empty and unused. > > Most of the time they're so massive and well-built that it's not worth > the cost to demolish them, so they sit there, reminding us of the > past.
a good friend of mine is a structural engineer, one of the people responsible for the cranes that litter the London skyline. In a conversation at the weekend he mentioned that while drilling the piles for one of his current buildings they hit concrete that wasn't meant to be there - not on the map. So they decided to drill right through it. Several days later, no progress at all and they decide to make some discreet enquiries. Turns out it was one of the government nuclear bunkers and they could have drilled until Doomsday, they wouldn't have got through it. So they just built their skyscraper on top of it. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
