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The Egan Apartments (Eggan?) in beautiful downtown Moscow was always rife with roaches. That's the building across from the cop shop. I think Hyperspud and Gem State Crystals occupy the main street storefronts these days. This was back in the 1970's and 80's. I don't know how that building is now. But they certainly had plenty of roaches back then. (Thankfully I never lived there).<div><br></div><div>SB</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 20, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Sue Hovey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div><font face="Arial">And I've always bragged to my Texas brothers and sisters that my favorite thing about Moscow is that we don't have roaches. In San Antonio we had roaches and crickets. At night on the freeways the crickets would be drawn to the lights and I can remember the sound as our tires ran over them by the thousands. The road sometimes got so slick cars would spin out of control--our version of black ice, I suppose.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial">Sue H. </font></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="sunilramalingam@hotmail.com" href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision 2020</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 20, 2009 7:19 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels</div> <div><br></div>Ah, Blatella germanica. <br><br>[My dad is primarily a medical entomologist, and secondarily a parasitologist, and to my mother's dismay dinner conversations often involve worms, mosquitoes, and other insects. We used to go through his books to identify our pests.]<br><br>I've never had quite the experience Mike describes, but I remember a couple of occasions when my parents decided to clean out our storerooms in M'sia. As the boxes came out, so too the roaches that had taken cover in and around them. My dad didn't really mind them, but my mom's approach, adopted by all of us, and which I blame on her excellent modelling, was much like Mike's below. <br><br>The worst events were when we would get an intense but short rainstorm in the mid-evenings. After the rain if it got warm again the roaches would come out of the storm drains and fly in, or up the drains in the bathroom, and then we'd have them - big ones - flying all over the house. We killed over thirty once, and I remember my sister running for the shelter of her room, screaming, with a big one buzzing at her head. It got in with her, which made her scream even more.<br><br>When World or European Cup soccer games were broadcast in the middle of the night, I always had a badminton racket by me, to deal with the airborne roaches, and my slippers for the terrestrial ones. And a hockey stick for the b.f. rat that we were pretty sure had moved into our room while we were in college, but that's another story... <br><br>Good times, good times.<br><br>Sunil<br><br> <hr id="stopSpelling"> From: <a href="mailto:coolerfixer@roadrunner.com">coolerfixer@roadrunner.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com">gussie443@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels<br>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:56:50 -0800<br><br> <div><font face="Arial">Ummm....... I hate to burst anyones bubble, but... my work takes me to all sorts of places in our little burg. I've seen those disgusting creatures for decades. Unfortunately, they are the classic, stereotypical "german cockroach". I still get the heebie jeebies about a service call I did in the late 90's (I won't say where). An ice machine was not producing ice. Located in the dimly lit basement, I began to remove the exterior panels when, just like in a horror movie, literally thousands of roaches fell onto the floor out of the machine. So many that they had stalled the condenser fan motor. Yes, I screamed like a little girl while I grabbed my tool bag and ran! Ugh! Had to fumigate my van and burn my clothes after I stripped outside in the street.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"></font> </div> <div>Mike DeLeve'<br>Coldsmith Refrigeration<br>P.O. Box 8173<br>Moscow, ID 83843<br><font face="Arial"></font></div> <div> </div> <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: rgb(228,228,228); FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><b>From:</b> <a title="gussie443@hotmail.com">Ellen Roskovich</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"><b>To:</b> <a title="sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com">vision 2020</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 20, 2009 8:20 AM Mike</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels</div> <div><br></div>Sunil. . . I think the only roaches in Moscow live in the tunnels under the UI. And this is a good thing. . . and we should all hope they stay there. They are HUGE!! and they hiss. One of my son's classmates brought some to class for "show and tell". They ended up as classroom "pets" and I think they fed them cornflakes. I can't imagine stepping on one. Yuck.<br> <br>Ellen A. Roskovich<br> <br> <hr id="EC_stopSpelling"> From: <a>sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a><br>CC: <a>vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:17:11 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Roaches, was tunnels<br><br> Janesta,<br><br>I've never seen a roach in Moscow. This is the second time I've heard a roach story here, but I've still escaped them.<br><br>In Malaysia we had Periplaneta americanas, which would fly around outside and inside, and many other varieties. In Davis we had smaller, non-flying roaches, and I was relieved not to find them here.<br><br>Now I guess I had better start looking around more carefully.<br><br>Sunil<br><br> <hr id="EC_EC_stopSpelling"> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:48:44 -0800<br>From: <a href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com">janesta@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com">lfalen@turbonet.com</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels<br><br>In 1978, I went into the tunnels, as I was working for a company that had a contracted job down there.<br><br>It was heebie-jeebie time... HUGE cockroaches, in my imagination now, they are as big as Madagascar Beetles! HA!! I did not think those critters existed in Idaho because of the cold. <br><br>It was big down there, and there was evidence of people visiting for non work purposes. I don't have a clue how to get to them anymore. It was quite an exciting part of the job.<br><br>Janesta<br><br> <div class="EC_EC_EC_gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:49 AM, lfalen <span dir="ltr"><<a>lfalen@turbonet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="EC_EC_EC_gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex">I will take your word for it. Heimisch may have been wrong, but he told me that when he was Acting Dean of CALS.<br> <div class="EC_EC_EC_Ih2E3d">Roger<br>-----Original message-----<br>From: Tom Hansen <a>thansen@moscow.com</a><br></div> <div class="EC_EC_EC_Ih2E3d">Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:01:44 -0800<br>To: lfalen <a>lfalen@turbonet.com</a>, Dickow <a>dickow@turbonet.com</a>, <a>vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels<br><br>> The steam tunnels are NOT sealed from human access, Roger!<br>><br>> I know this for a fact, first-hand fact.<br>><br>> Enough said.<br>><br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>><br>> > Not for steam, but according to Heimisch they are for people. That all I<br>> know about it. He<br>> told me that just after they increased the security to the Ag. Biotech.<br>> Building.<br>> > Roger<br>> > -----Original message-----<br>> > From: Tom Hansen <a>thansen@moscow.com</a><br>> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:44:02 -0800<br></div> <div class="EC_EC_EC_Ih2E3d">> > To: lfalen <a>lfalen@turbonet.com</a>, Dickow <a>dickow@turbonet.com</a>,<br>> <a>vision2020@moscow.com</a><br></div> <div class="EC_EC_EC_Ih2E3d">> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tunnels<br>> ><br>> > > Roger Falen stated:<br>> > ><br>> > > "When I was an undergraduate living in Upham Hall, some kids went from<br>> > > there to all over campus by way of the tunnels. According to Dick<br>> > > Heimisch. they are now sealed off."<br>> > ><br>> > > Trust me, Roger. 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