It was quite a feat. As a native Tar Heel, I liked the Hatteras Light as much
as anyone (well, maybe not that much), but I was ready to let the sea claim it,
as, ah, nature intended. Unfortunately, I wasn’t consulted.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/7/14 14:58 : , Ken Norton wrote:
>>> They move brick buildings all the time. A quick Google image search for
>>> "moving a building" will show you dozens.
>> Some friends of ours are in the moving business. Moving brick
>> structures is actually not too bad of a job at all. Technology has
>> really changed things in the past 20 years.
>>
>> Moving the Cape Hatteras lighthouse was one of the more challenging
>> projects that one company did.
>>
>> Moving the Newark Airport Terminal was so huge that it literally used
>> every functioning apparatus in the country.
>>
>>
> Holy crap! Moving a lighthouse? That's a whole lot of vertical to create
> movement around the base - all of that "moment of stuff stuff" that they
> tried to teach me in physics and mechanics...
>
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