"Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Our railway system is never short of an excuse as to why services are >disrupted. Yesterday trains were >restricted to 60 mph instead of their usual 120 mph because of the >exceptionally hot weather making it possible that the railway lines will >buckle.
This reminds me of a hot weather story. Several years back after work, I took the highway north to visit my mother, instead of south and home. I got stuck in a miles-long traffic jam, very unusual for that highway at that time. When we finally got to the delay, there was a police car with lights flashing in one of the two lanes. No accident -- all across the blocked lane, the concrete had buckled so that a foot-thick section was slanting up, facing oncoming traffic. Later I read in the newspaper that the section of highway in question was an "experimental" one, built without expansion joints. Result of experiment, highway buckles in extreme hot weather. Luckily no one was killed! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
