9ae Subj : Re: This Train Just Went Splat! To : alt.tv.er From : KL Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 16:10:18 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er on 9/23/2005 2:21 PM rhythmking2004@yahoo.com said the following: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:05:27 -0400, "Sharon" > wrote: > > >>>What I don't get is why they were on country roads in the first place >>>to hit the thing. >> >>It looked to me that they were driving a state highway. Not all states have >>6 lane super highways from point-A to point-B. >> >>Even the New York State Thruway has its share of car/deer accidents. I can >>drive 40 miles to the next city and routinely see 6 roadkill deer on the >>side of the road. >> >>-Sharon > > > OK, but that still doesn't explain why they would have been doing > that. If they wanted to get from Chicago to Colorado in the shortest > amount of time, they should have been on an interstate. And I-80, > which goes from Chicago to at least Reno, IS a 4-lane interstate (two > lanes each way), and looked nothing like that. I just assumed that they had left the interstate to cross over to wherever in CO they thought Alex was... -- KL Please help if you can.... How to Help: Organizations Involved in Hurricane Katrina Relief o FEMA Charity tips: http://www.fema.gov/rrr/help2.shtm o Red Cross: 1-800-HELP-NOW or https://www.redcross.org/ o Network for Good http://www.networkforgood.org o Jewish Federation: 323-761-8200 or http://www.jewishla.org o McCormick Tribune Foundation Hurricane Katrina Relief Campaign: http://www.mccormicktribune.org/mtf/hurricanerelief.htm o Episcopal Relief & Development: 1-800-334-7626 or http://www.er-d.org/ o Mercy Corps http://www.mercycorps.org o United Methodist Committee on Relief: 1-800-554-8583 or http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/hurricanes/2005/ o Salvation Army: 1-800-SAL-ARMY or http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/ o Catholic Charities: 1-800-919-9338 or http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/ o National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster: http://www.nvoad.org/ o Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: http://www.la-spca.org/ ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- . 0