Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S® 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> Date:02/27/2015 11:00 AM (GMT-06:00) To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Texascavers Digest, Vol 8, Issue 22 Send Texascavers mailing list submissions to texascavers@texascavers.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to texascavers-requ...@texascavers.com You can reach the person managing the list at texascavers-ow...@texascavers.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Texascavers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Punkin Survey openings (Crash Kennedy via Texascavers) 2. Couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea (Geary Schindel via Texascavers) 3. Re: Couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea (Evatt via Texascavers) 4. SubTropolis (Mark Minton via Texascavers) 5. NSS Board of Governors Meeting on Saturday, March 7 in San Antonio, Texas (Geary Schindel via Texascavers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:06:42 -0600 From: Crash Kennedy via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: CaveTex <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: [Texascavers] Punkin Survey openings Message-ID: <CAJy2ckXvU5jRQ00tnQcWOiU_u_3CTqB2CdC=ykpxm0o6bla...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sorry for the last-minute notice, but I have a few openings that have come available on this weekend's Punkin survey expedition. Vertical gear and skills a must. Contact me off-list by this afternoon if interested. Crash 512-663-2287 cavercr...@gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.texascavers.com/private/texascavers/attachments/20150226/0970e5df/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:34:37 +0000 From: Geary Schindel via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: "'texascavers@texascavers.com'" <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: [Texascavers] Couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea Message-ID: <blupr05mb21616e5de66a909f08b1958d4...@blupr05mb216.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Interesting video of some folks getting off a bus and having the earth give way and falling into a pit. I understand they only went about 10 feet but I'm sure it was an exciting ride. Subject: couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea http://news.yahoo.com/sinkhole-swallows-korean-couple-150426100.html Geary Schindel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 8950 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.texascavers.com/private/texascavers/attachments/20150226/484051bb/attachment-0001.bin> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:44:58 -0700 From: Evatt via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea Message-ID: <AD46C2F9BBED476FA082821A893816D5@JimHP> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original When the Devil wants you, he'll go to any lengths to get you. Back in the '60's, I was on the team that first dropped the skylight to Big Door Cave in the Guads. (Tom Meador was first, me second.) The skylight was on a sloping ledge, cliffs above and below. After we'd dropped and were headed toward the main entrance (where we exited), we noticed a room on the right that had a very high ceiling. We all thought that the top seemed very near the surface, probably along the same ledge. Years later ('80's) it was reported that someone was walking on that ledge between the two entrances when the ground gave way. The lucky fellow fell on his crotch, one leg going in the new hole and the other sliding toward the edge of the cliff. Albeit sore, he lived to walk back to his vehicle on the main ridge. Sure enough about two years later I was back to Big Door and went into that same mid-room. Saw daylight up there that time, supporting the veracity of the story. Big Door Cave is also known as Hermit, Wild Man, Owl, and at least two other names. Owls yea, no bats. No WNS. Watch where you walk! Better to fall 10 feet from the sidewalk than 140 feet into Big Door Cave. Jim Evatt Subject: [Texascavers] Couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea Interesting video of some folks getting off a bus and having the earth give way and falling into a pit. I understand they only went about 10 feet but I'm sure it was an exciting ride. Subject: couple eaten by sinkhole in Korea http://news.yahoo.com/sinkhole-swallows-korean-couple-150426100.html Geary Schindel _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:13:36 -0500 From: Mark Minton via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: texascavers@texascavers.com, s...@caver.net Subject: [Texascavers] SubTropolis Message-ID: <42f13986dbe6793f68f5e7a334e5abfe.squir...@login.snurkle.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 There was a story on NPR's Market Place on Wednesday about an abandoned limestone mine turned into an underground secure industrial park. <http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/subtropolis-yeah-its-pretty-underground>. I'd heard of such places before, and in fact anyone who went to the NSS Convention in Indiana in 2007 attended the photo salon and banquet in such a facility. This one in Kansas City is apparently the largest in the world. Full story at <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-04/welcome-to-subtropolis-the-business-complex-buried-under-kansas-city>. Mark ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:38:17 +0000 From: Geary Schindel via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> To: "'texascavers@texascavers.com'" <texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: [Texascavers] NSS Board of Governors Meeting on Saturday, March 7 in San Antonio, Texas Message-ID: <blupr05mb216dd0b9b4e631cb452d422d4...@blupr05mb216.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Folks, Here is some information on the upcoming National Speleological Society Board of Governors meeting hosted by the Bexar Grotto of the NSS. The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 7th at 9 am at the Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA). The EAA is located near I-35 and 281 on the north side of downtown San Antonio. The address is 900 E. Quincy Street, San Antonio, Texas 78215. Park in the front of the building (Parking off Quincy). The front of the building will be open. For more information, you can call Geary Schindel at 210.326.1576. Friday Wine Tour of the Texas Hill Country (March 6) Arranged by Sue Schindel at 210-313-9976 cell or gschin...@mindspring.com<mailto:gschin...@mindspring.com> This will leave around 1:30 pm from San Antonio and will visit one or two wineries. Depending upon the number of people interested, we may arrange special transportation. We will be back in time for the Friday evening party. William Shrewsbury (NSS President) and Gary Barnes (NSS Secretary Treasurer) will attend the wine tour being organized by Sue Schindel. If you’re interested in going, email sue at gschin...@mindspring.com<mailto:gschin...@mindspring.com> or call her at 210.313.9976. Here’s a chance to hang out with some of the NSS Officers. Friday Social (March 6) will be at Kurt and Kitty Menking’s House starting around 6 pm. This is a pot luck hosted by the Grotto. We ask that you please bring a dish. There will be drinks and food available. The address is 8255 Bindseil Ln, San Antonio. You can reach Kurt or Kitty at 210-325-5598. Look for blue address sign for 8255 and Aggie maroon fence and gate. Driveway is a dirt road and the house is 1,000 feet from Bindseil Lane. Saturday Social (March 7) – There will be a Saturday night social at Geary and Sue Schindel’s house located at 11310 Whisper Dawn, San Antonio Texas. The social will start around 7:30 pm. The phone number for the house is 210.479.2151. This will be light snacks and drinks. If you would like to bring a dessert or something to munch on, that would be nice. (Stay off the roof). Sunday Wine Tour of the Texas Hill Country (March 8) Arranged by Sue Schindel at 210-313-9976 cell or gschin...@mindspring.com<mailto:gschin...@mindspring.com> This will leave around 10 am and will visit two or three wineries. Depending upon the number of people interested, we may arrange special transportation. We will need to know your travel schedule but assume that you will be eating lunch in the Texas Hill Country and will be back before dinner time. You may be expected to help with transportation costs and wine and food will be on your own. Sunday Caving (Gregg Williams) There is a gating project at Ezell’s Cave in Hays County (in San Marcos) on Sunday, March 8. Work is being coordinated by Jim Kennedy. Thanks, Geary Schindel NSS AVP -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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