<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I guess that anti-topless ordinance passed by the Moscow city council several years does have some value.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Donovan J. Arnold </span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 4:21 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0362950477"><div><div>Thanks for your concern, Janesta.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Here is a
method that works very well for me:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><Copy>, <Paste>, <Send> . . . <Copy>, <Paste>, <Send> . . . <Copy>, <Paste>, <Send> . . . <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium;">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br clear="none" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br clear="none"></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><br clear="none">On Dec 18, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Janesta <<a href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:janesta@gmail.com">janesta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>My Goodness!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">What/where/how can we share this news to places/people who need to know?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Thanks,<br clear="none"></div>Janesta<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0362950477gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0362950477gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Ellen Roskovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com">gussie443@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv0362950477gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">
<div><div dir="ltr"><b>Tom, I was happy to share this info with you. I was disappointed this did not receive the media coverage it deserves throughout "megaload" territory. Heads up, Moscow. . . .<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Ellen A. Roskovich<br clear="none">
</b><br clear="none"><div><div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: none; height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br clear="none">Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:00:49 -0800<br clear="none">To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br clear="none">
Subject: [Vision2020] Transformer load topples at I-205<div><div class="yiv0362950477h5"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div></div><div><span>With thanks to Ellen, a friend and anti-megaload voice.</span></div><div>
<span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span>Courtesy of <a href="http://koin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">KOIN.com</a> (Portland, Oregon) at:</span></div>
<div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span>(with video)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.koin.com/news/clackamas-county/transformer-closes-i-205-ramps" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font color="#000000">http://www.koin.com/news/clackamas-county/transformer-closes-i-205-ramps</font></a></div>
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</span></div><div><h1 style="padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><span>Transformer load topples at I-205</span></font></h1><div style="padding: 0px;"><span>Stuck transformer closed I-205 ramps for hours</span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="padding: 0px;"><span>GLADSTONE, Ore. (KOIN) – A massive transformer that was being transported overnight Monday became stuck in Gladstone, blocking access to a busy freeway.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">The 660,000-pound transformer came to rest on SE 82nd Drive, blocking the northbound on and off ramps to Interstate 205.</span></div><div style="padding: 0px;"><span>"If it would have kept going," said a witness, "it would have been disastrous."<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">The transformer began its move <a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">at 11 p.m. Monday night</a>, said Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Don Hamilton. But it wasn't until nearly a full day later that the last of the load was back on the road.</span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span>"It is a surprise," said Terry M. Emmert, senior vice president with Emmert International at the scene. "We don't know what caused the failure yet, but we're here to get it fixed and keep this transformer moving to its next destination."</span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span>The transformer was making a 4-and-a-half-mile trip from Oregon City to a rail yard in Clackamas. This is the first of three transformers set to make the overnight trip.</span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span>However, on this first trip the Emmert International truck transporting the transformer had problems making a turn when a rear axle pin broke. As the axle started to steer away from the load, the wheels tilted up. The transformer itself, suspended on the transport, never hit the ground.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">When an axle pin breaks, "what happens is the steering stays in the direction it's pointed, so it made it about three feet further before we stopped it," Emmert said. </span></div><div style="padding: 0px;"><span>ODOT reports crews had to bring in a crane to move it, loading the equivalent of eight fully-loaded semi trucks. Nearby I-205 ramps were closed through <a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">Tuesday afternoon</a>; the transformer was finally moved from 82nd Drive around <a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">5 p.m.</a></span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span>Emmert is no stranger to large transport. The Clackamas, Ore., transport company is the one that brought <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/the-museum/aircraft-exhibits/the-spruce-goose/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">the Spruce Goose</a> to Oregon.</span></div>
<div style="padding: 0px;"><span>On the next transformer trip, Emmert said, "we'll make sure those pins are safe to be utilitized. But that's really the only thing that could go wrong. And unfortunately it happened today."</span></div>
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<div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span>It is no longer, nor has it ever been, a matter of "if" . . . only "when" and "at what cost".</span></div>
<div><span><br clear="none"></span><div><span>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span><br clear="none">
</span></div><div><span>"Moscow Cares" </span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div>
<div><span> </span></div><div><div><span>Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span>Moscow, Idaho</span></div>
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