<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><pre>"In the early 80's they didn't have lights."---Kit Craine</pre>Idaho didn't have lights in the 1980s? I knew we were behind the times, but I thought for certain we had lights at least by then :)<br><br><pre>"They are very hot, dank, and dreary places with very low ceilings, lots of<br>stuff to bang one's head on, and dropoffs to fall into."<br><br>Wow, the tunnels sound almost as dangerous as the UI sidewalks.<br></pre><br>Best Regards,<br><br>Donovan<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 2/17/09, <span>Craine</span> Kit <i><kcraine@verizon.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Craine Kit <kcraine@verizon.net><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels<br>To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><br>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 5:46
PM<br><br><pre>Close, but no bananas. In the early 80's they didn't have lights.<br><br>Kit Craine<br><br><br><br><br><br>On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br><br>> Kit -<br>><br>> You mean like this?<br>><br>> http://tinyurl.com/SteamTunnel<br>><br>> Having read utility meters throughout the UI campus for a few <br>> years, I can<br>> tell you . . .<br>><br>> You can go from the Wallace Complex to the Alumni Center, and from the<br>> Memorial Gym to the SUB, totally via steam tunnels.<br>><br>> Had McCain been elected president, my fall-back plan (if migration to<br>> Canada lost its appeal) included a comfy little "cul-de-sac"<br>about ten<br>> feet below the Ag Building.<br>><br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>><br>>> Actually, the UI steam tunnels are active. They carry steam from the<br>>> boilers at Sixth & Line to most of the buildings on campus.
They<br>also<br>>> have wires for things like telephones and some water lines. They are<br>>> very hot, dank, and dreary places with very low ceilings, lots of<br>>> stuff to bang one's head on, and dropoffs to fall into.<br>>><br>>> I would not be surprised if there were tunnels under the downtown. I<br>>> remember--particularly on Third between Jefferson and Main--metal<br>>> doors which provided access to the basements of many of the<br>>> businesses and "windows" made of glass blocks between the<br>doors.<br>>><br>>> Kit<br>> Craine<br>><br>> ---------------------------------------------<br>> This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br>> http://www.fsr.com/<br>><br>><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>
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