Hey, it snowed here last year…we got a whole 1/4" for about two hours…nasty stuff, made the palm trees look funny.
Plant Texas Live Oaks…they dont drop their leaves till march or april.
Rattlesnakes, scorpions, alligators, crocodiles, mosquitos 365x24…
You forgot tornadoes.[;)]
Them little critters just make it interesting…
You forgot hurricanes and 110 degree summers.
We get enough in the way of tornados and severe storms here in SE Wisconsin, although not nearly as many as the rest of Wisconsin, and nowhere near the number that occur in Oklahoma and Texas.
I would think that you get enough of them in South Dakota as well: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/stalley.gif
Story of a S.D. tornado: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0627_030627_tvtornadochaser.html
Well…[:I]…the brain meant to say hurricanes…but the fingers typed tornadoes anyway…[D)]
We genrally trade off with Minnesota, on whose turn it is to have a small town eaten by a tornado. [xx(]
A most interesting read; I learned lots about the BN that I didn’t know before.
I’ll be done with my copy ( the ‘gently used’ one) in about a week. Anybody else interested? Same terms as above, providing you’re willing to do the same for someone else…
Z
I’ll give it a whirl. YGPM comin’ at ya!
I am 1/2 way maybe a little more thru it…learned a lot os stats on BN and its merger railroads, but the leader part seems to be a bit lacking…so far, the author has simply included a few paragraphs highlighted and boxed about the men he considered the leaders, a simply, “he worked here for this many years, then here for this many years, before coming to BN” type of blurb…nothing delving deep into what made them the leaders he says they are.
The book does contain a running history of the American railroads rise and fall, but only in the most economical terms, again, nothing too insightful and nothing surprising.
I was expecting more of an in depth look at folks like Lou Menk…but I loved the quote at the beginning of chapter 8, credited to Richard M. Bressler in 1980, when he was new to the railroad industry and culture.
"This was a whole different world.
In so may ways, it’s like stepping back into the 19th century."
He is right, not so much from a technological point, althought some of what we do has not changed all that much in the last century…but more from a management style and business style.
There still is the entitled class and the peasants, although it seems to be getting somewhat better…
Done with book, on its way to Ed Benton this morning.
First response to thread gets it after I am done with the book.
Oh, Oh, Could I be that lucky [swg]?
Yes you are Chad when I get done you will get it.
Sounds good, thanks. PM sent with addy. And of course I’ll pass it along when I’m done. [8D]
And post a review when your through reading it…just to see who got what out of the book.
Still thinking mine up…
Dan, I should be able to mail it Monday 11-9; it took me a bit longer to read than my earlier estimate, as it got a bit more interesting as it went on.
I thought it was an interesting read. I learned a lot I didn’t know before regarding the railroad’s history.
Z
Thanks, I’m looking forward to it.
Chad about half way thru it. Man no wonder anything the Goverment touches is so SCREWED UP when it comes to regulations. Heck I look at the FMCSA and the HOS we had a system that worked for 70 years and then they changed it. Now they are going for their 4 try to fix what was NOT BROKE and will still not listen to the drivers as to what is wrong with the industry.
Same issues are there in the RR yet the workers are the last to get asked.
The National Geographic link failed to mention that the entire town of Manchester was wiped out in that tornado. No one was badly injured, but all 6 residents moved elsewhere and Manchester is officially a ghost town.
Got it today. Once I have a chance to get into it and see how it reads I’ll give a guesstimate of how long it’ll take me. What a neat concept…almost like a print exchange (photos).