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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Walter
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:48 PM
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> OK, Mr. Sophisticated  Exile to the Great 
> North  Woods, you explain to us how it is that a dynamited 
> wood frame building has its' nails removed by the blast (but 
> is evidently otherwise undamaged enough to allow reassembly), 
> and the boards land in such a manner (and condition) as to 
> make it possible to identify their original location in the 
> structure and reassemble them in the same configuration. 

Ummmm....  I don't think he said that. What I pictured was a soft little
"whump" in a tightly-sealed building that loosened up the nails and
joints so it would come apart more easily. Nobody said anything about
the nails flying out and the boards then falling into neatly stacked
piles.

That would be too easy.

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Raleigh Historic           be thinking, and the thinker
Districts Commission       often to be working."
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