For those who may not have caught a news report lately, our area was hit with a pretty good-sized shaker today -- 6.8 on the Richter, to be exact, with the epicenter about 30 miles southwest of Seattle. The vast majority of the damage was in the older sections of the state capitol in Olympia, and in parts of downtown Seattle. The local news had some footage of a twisted pile of metal, buried under (literally) a ton of bricks from an older building. Said pile had once been an SUV in the Ford Bronco (full-size) class. The building I work in at Boeing's Renton plant appears to have sustained minimal damage, though it is still closed at this hour. It is expected to reopen tomorrow unless major structural problems are found. Thanks be to God, the sum total of our "damage" here at home was a stuffed animal fallen from its shelf, and my mate's closet door jarred out of alignment with its track guide. I have yet to check on the level of damage at the local used-computer places. The only fatality I know of, and I'm not even certain it can be directly attributed to the quake, is that a heart-attack victim died. And that's the Way it Is from southeast of Seattle, Kent's East Hill. At least Peter Jennings wasn't on the air to say "Earthquack" like he did with the Bay Area's 'Quake of '89.' ;-) Keep the peace(es). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K) "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).