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When there's an accident and traffic stops going by they probably look out the window to see why it's so quiet.

I rode through the construction yesterday but didn't get a picture. Both to the left and right of the first two pictures in post #22, they are taking down the big trees. Dozens of them.:confused:

I went by there on my way out of town yesterday and it appears I was wrong about their plans. The stone face in the first picture (post 22) is being chipped away from the top down.
Speaking of natural gas...

http://cellar.org/2017/natural gas.jpg

Fascinating the way they wrote news-copy in those days.

Is taking your lamp to check the gas standard practice?

I saw an oil train rolling through town yesterday... its only a matter of time until the next accident. I don't blame environmentalists opposing pipelines though, I see it more as the death throes of the industrial revolution.

If you don't have electricity, or ever don't have it in the basement, it is.

No flashlights in those days.

I was being a smart ass. I guess the ass part stuck. :)