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Skriven 2014-02-19 15:15:00 av Ed Vance (12580.windowsa)
    Kommentar till text 900 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
Ärende: Re: VM's
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02-19-14 11:35 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about Re: VM's

 PQ> @MSGID: <53049811.12579.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 PQ> Hi! Ed,

 PQ> On Mon, 17 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 EV> The first Lock was 600 feet long by 110 feet wide. The second Lock
 EV> was 1200 feet long by 110 feet wide.

 PQ> Wow!  That second one is roughly the deck size of the USS Essex
 PQ> amphib assault ship!  (I mention that ship as there is a
 PQ> Fidonet sysop who used to serve on the ship till quite
 PQ> recently.  I just checked my notes on the Essex.)

Hi Paul,

The USS Lexington CVA-16 is a Essex Class Aircraft Carrier that I've
served on.
The USS Hancock CVA-19 may also have been a Essex Class, I can't
remember now, though I think both were about the same size Ships that
I've been stationed on.

 EV> Where I worked, the water level inside the concrete lock walls went
 EV> up or down to get traffic through.

 PQ> Ah-ha!  Fascinating work.  Never a dull moment, I guess.  And,
 PQ> never the same day over & over again... I reckon.

I've seen many a sun set and sun rise, and sweated and froze during my
29 years of employment at the Locks.
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 EV> You said "on the ground", so I take that to mean that you have been
 EV> on a moutain top and experienced what snow is all about, correct?

 PQ> Nope.  Not ever.  (I was talking about hail stones.)  We don't
 PQ> really have mountains here, according to a lady from Albania I
 PQ> met a few years ago.  Just a few bumps in the terrain, as much
 PQ> of Australia was scoured by ice sheets for millions of years.
 PQ> The closest we have to snow-capped mountains are 'the Alps',
 PQ> down south, close to Melbourne.  I've been to Melbourne but not
 PQ> to the snow fields.

So the coldest you've been is in a Air Conditioned Room?

 EV> I was on vacation in June and drove through a mountainous area where
 EV> there was show on each side of the road, I was in the State of
 EV> Montana.

 PQ> That is a beautiful part of the states, from what few photos &
 PQ> movies I've seen.  I'm also guessing that the countryside you
 PQ> live in is a beautiful locale as well.  You are a lucky man,
 PQ> Ed.

You're Lucky Too Paul.
There are a lot of beautiful places here on Earth, I've been to a few
that You haven't, and You've been to a few that I haven't, but by using
the internet both of us can see Photos and Videos of places that we
haven't visited.  (there's also magazines such as National Geographics)

... Be silent and be thought a fool.   Speak and remove all doubt.
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