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BNSF derailment, mudslides disrupt Northwest passenger service
With all these recent MUD SLIDES and other ground movements - makes me wonder if this is not in preparation for THE BIG ONE ??
Something is going to give…
By “Big One” do you mean the slide that’s going to be of acid decomposed rock and muck collected on the way to Puget Sound, the acid caused by sulfuric vapors emanating from Mt Rainier and trapped under the glaciers and snow, melting them, and forming sulfuric acid, working on the rocks structural strength?
E E Symonds Or are you talkin’ ‘bout a subsidence ‘quake’ like the one that moved a layer of sediment in a riverbed to an 18 inch vertical separation near (?) Issaquah?
Or a combo’ of both.
The quake’s accomplishment is reported in the first chapter of “On Shaky Ground,” annotated exhaustivley, a book written in the Clive Custler style and superb read. The Valdez quake alone stirs…
The Ranier slide was in an article in Smithsonian mag both published in the eighties or so.
By “Big One” do you mean the slide that’s going to be of acid decomposed rock and muck collected on the way to Puget Sound, the acid caused by sulfuric vapors emanating from Mt Rainier and trapped under the glaciers and snow, melting them, and forming sulfuric acid, working on the rocks structural strength?
E E Symonds Or are you talkin’ ‘bout a subsidence ‘quake’ like the one that moved a layer of sediment in a riverbed to an 18 inch vertical separation near (?) Issaquah?
Or a combo’ of both.
The quake’s accomplishment is reported in the first chapter of “On Shaky Ground,” annotated exhaustivley, a book written in the Clive Custler style and superb read. The Valdez quake alone stirs…
The Ranier slide was in an article in Smithsonian mag both published in the eighties or so.
Once again, those private sector bus companies pick up the slack. On very short notice.
We have a lot of clay on sand and gravel. So we have lots of mud if it gets too wet around here and mudslides are common.
Avalanches are also common here.
Who said it was private bus? Most likely public transit along the routes Goose dung alert
Makes me grateful all we need to worry about up here is the occasional nor’easter. That might cancel the ferries but never the commuter rail.
Mr. Johnson: the story said “Amtrak is providing chartered buses.” So no, it’s not public transit along the routes. In most places I’m familiar with, bus charters are actually dominated by private firms, because chartering is a very different business from the day-in day-out routes of actual public transit. In particular, chartering is a whole lot harder to sell to the voters as a public service.
Just for the record, I don’t think Mr. Guse’s comment has much to say in this case, either, for pretty nearly the same reason–chartering just isn’t providing the same service as Amtrak does. So the fact that the private firms could step in and pick up the slack for a short term doesn’t mean they could (or would) do it on a continuing basis.
And now that I’ve disagreed with everybody, I’ll go back to listening and let other folks teach me my mistakes :-).
Too bad there aren’t private sectors picking up the slack for the lack of brain power.
More PFFFFFT from the Goose! Beware it may be runny!
I propose that they put in tunnel liners or something so that when mud slide occurs, all the mud and whatever else will fall around the tunnel liners and the route will have it self, in effect, a new tunnel.