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In a message dated 10/17/2005 3:49:18 A.M. Atlantic Daylight Time, sfaiz(--nospam--at)saudioger.com writes:
Well spoken, Doug Copp.
 
I agree with you and like your _expression_; especially
the "survival void"/"triangle of life" at the end.
 
Thanx a lot indeed and best regards.
 
Syed Faiz Ahmad; MEngg, MASCE
Senior Structural Engineer
Saudi Oger Ltd
P.O. Box: 1449
Riyadh-11431
Saudi Arabia
Cell: +966-508-169304
Dear Syed:
 
Thank you for the generosity of your kind words. 650,000 people have died, in the disasters, I have worked at and 98% of those people died because of becoming squashed by 'duck and cover'.
 
It is difficult for me to deviate from the essential point which is: 'people survive in suvivable voids (triangle of life) and are squashed getting under flimsy objects like a table designed to support a hundred kilos which are impacted by tons..with you under it (duck and cover).
 
This is not difficult to understand but remains the cause of hundreds of thousands of deaths, every year.
 
thank you, again
 
doug copp