In a message dated 8/23/2014 12:00:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
from David Locklear, so hit Delete Button now. The Weazel, freshly returned from the (Real) Old Timers, would like to chime in on behalf of Sr. Locklear, a person he has never met. Since when does being an idiosyncratic irritant disqualify someone from expressing irrelevant opinions on the subject of empty holes in the ground? As to caves, the highlight (I actually mean lowdark) of my trip to WestbyGawdVirginia with Dr. Ann was a sandstone (actually quartzite) crevasse on the west side of Cacapon mountain which should have been full of bears and rattlesnakes. It undoubtedly was when a young George Washington surveyed the area in the mid 1700dreds and proclaimed the view of the upper Potomac from atop the scree to be one of the best in the world. Further proof of God's ineptitude and lack of foresight was offered by an extensive tour of the coalfields of northern WV. Innocent looking springs along the flanks of mines registered a pH of 2.1. The runoff flows both east and west from the eastern continental divide thereby fouling the sources of both the Potomac and the Mississippi. Had He been awake at the wheel He could have tweaked the tectonics a bit so that the acidic runoff would have flowed southwest into the extensive Mississippian limestones thereby cre ating caves that would have been the wonder of the world. Instead, He just ruined the fishing and created habitat suitable only for unemployed Pillbillies. For a minute there I thought I was back in Romania where Ceausescu had done the planning. SW
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