Repost: [Sca-cooks] [Fwd: [Fwd: Yeah so?]]

[Laura C. Minnick]

Jenne Heise wrote:

> The Indiana library sinking story is not true: the campus apparently has a
> sheet of bedrock about 5 feet below the surface.
> http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/campus/libsink.html
>
> On the other hand, it is true that the entire collection of a major
> California city library was torched in the time it took for the fire
> company literally around the block to respond: less than 5 minutes. (There
> were no sprinklers: they had been dispensed with as a cost cutting measure
> since the fire company was next door. Thank goodness the fire occured at
> night.) If a fire alarm goes off in a library, don't argue: remove
> yourself immediately!

Whoa... that was, um, rather illegal! I'm surprised it passed the
inspection. (My dad is an architect, and I've heard a fair amount about
this sort of thing).

A library going up in flames. Wow. Makes me feel just a little sick...

'Lainie