"Of all the major buildings in San Francisco, the well-built U.S. Mint (at the time holding $300 million in assets in its vaults) survived with the least amount of damage. Today it sits empty and unused - because it doesn't meet modern earthquake codes."
[via livescience.com and RockitBook]
Just a passage that got me to chuckle. Busy day that started early and that'll end late, very late...so I'm just stopping to smell the roses. Hope everyone's having a great day so far.
1 comment:
haha!
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