Your mill could save your life

Howdy folks;

This amounts to totally nonstandard and possibly even OT usage of your mill,
lathe, the desk your CAD-CAM computer sits on, or even that stack of CAD
drawings and comic books next to it, however please read anyway, as it could
save your life, and those of your families, and friends as well. Your machine
could save your life.

Bill

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From: "Snow Bear" <snowbear@...>
Subject: FWD Earthquake Safety Info
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:29:47 -0700


EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and
Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team
International (ARTI), the world's most experienced
rescue team. The information in this article will save
lives in an earthquake.

I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked
with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several
countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries.

I was the United Nations expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I
have worked at every major disaster in the world since 1985, except
forsimultaneous disasters.

In 1996 we made a film which proved my survival
methodology to be correct. The Turkish Federal Government, City of
Istanbul, University of Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI
cooperated to film this practical, scientific test. We collapsed a school
and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten mannequins did "duck and cover,"
and ten mannequins I used in my "triangle of life" survival method. After
the simulated earthquake collapse we crawled through the rubble and
entered the building to film and document the results. The film, in which I
practiced my survival techniques under directly observable, scientific
conditions, relevant to building collapse, showed there would have been

zero percent survival for those doing duck and cover. There would likely
have been 100 percent survivability for people using my method of the
"triangle of life." This film has been seen by millions of viewers on
television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was seen in the USA,
Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.

The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico City
during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under their desk. Every child
was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by
lying down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary
and I wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the
time know that the children were told to hide under something.

Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling
upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a
space or void next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle of
life". The larger the object, the stronger, and the less it will compact.

The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the
probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not
be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings on television,
count the "triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the
most common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building. They are
everywhere.

TEN TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" when
buildings collapse are crushed to death. People who
get under objects, like desks or cars, are crushed.

2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in
the fetal position.You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural
safety/survival instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next
to an object, next to a sofa, next to a large bulky object that will
compress slightly but leave a void next to it.

3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in
during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the
earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids
are created.

Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight.
Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause
many injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.

4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs,
simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels
can achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by
posting a sign on the back of the door of every room telling occupants
to lie down on the floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an
earthquake.

5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting
out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position
next to a sofa, or large chair.

6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse is
killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls
forward or backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the
door jam falls sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In
either case, you will be killed!

7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment of
frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the building).
The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each
other until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people
who get on stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads -
horribly mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away
from the stairs. The stairs are a likely part of the building to be
damaged. Even if the stairs are not collapsed by the earthquake, they
may collapse later when overloaded by fleeing people. They should always
be checked for safety, even when the rest of the building is not damaged.

8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If Possible -
It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than
the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of
the building the greater the probability that your escape route will be
blocked

9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when
the road above falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles;
which is exactly what happened with the slabs between the decks of the
Nimitz Freeway The victims of the San Francisco earthquake all stayed
inside of their vehicles. They were all killed. They could have easily
survived by getting out and sitting or lying next to their vehicles.
Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out
of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had
voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns
fall directly across them.

10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper
offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not
compact. Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.


---------- end forwarded message from Snow Bear ----------

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