Max Eskin wrote: Plywood outlasts damned near anything else in a strong quake, as it is reasonably flexible and has no specific direction to break. Worse is solid lumber, worse twice is prestwood (which will break in any convenient [to the quake] direction). But adequately thick plywood isn't cheap and it really sucks _except_ for equipment rack sized shelving -- bookshelves are a whole nother concept, though I have far more of them than shelves for computer gear. -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_