if only we had a Nowbie in Pittsburgh

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danny burstein

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Oct 29, 2019, 9:22:17 AM10/29/19
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/sinkhole-bus-pittsburgh-swallowed-pennsylvania

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Brenda Kurland

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Oct 29, 2019, 9:25:22 AM10/29/19
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I'm in Pittsburgh now!  But nothing to add.  
Other than that the things that surprise people in Pittsburgh (anti-Semitic shooting, bus at weird angle) I'd already seen in Seattle.........
-Brenda

kgba...@gmail.com

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Oct 29, 2019, 11:14:45 AM10/29/19
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Meh. We lose buildings, entire neighborhoods regularly to sinkholes. A
bus is small potatoes.


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KGB
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danny burstein

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Oct 29, 2019, 12:41:02 PM10/29/19
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, kgba...@gmail.com wrote:

> Meh. We lose buildings, entire neighborhoods regularly to sinkholes. A
> bus is small potatoes.

And then there's... San Francisco's sinking skyscraper...

"As of 2018, the sinking has increased to 18 inches with a lean of 14
inches.[34]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco)

Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)

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Oct 29, 2019, 3:37:44 PM10/29/19
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They could turn a bug into a feature if they renamed it "Leaning Tower of Pisa - West"!

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)
  Of course, they have to carefully monitor the slant to make sure that the next
earthquake insurance claim is accurate! :-)
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