Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 3 Jan 2025 01:25:38 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4f7tmjplbte7cnuh2pqrh1fufs4iatv3fd@4ax.com> <1126njll2vjtnlvjhrtme7k7oe3cds496q@4ax.com> <696149c1-ea5d-8a08-6db1-8f69ede19d92@example.net> <5jdj4lxd8a.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /GWOJIZnfO4HC6sP1j0Q1QbU48Svlc3FrdOw3Rg2RtfcODnT7G Cancel-Lock: sha1:xyeypCQxw2r5U4GiYlCVRMnHkAk= sha256:wPii3ndXIkX/v1aex/ZuOa0EFXrx2kKme0vj8R8G3iU= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63592 comp.os.linux.advocacy:682439 On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 22:38:13 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker > near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain. The exploding > truck, which was carrying 23 tons of highly flammable liquefied > propylene, killed 215 people and severely burned 200 more. https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/60th-anniversary-of-1962-berlin-ny- tragedy-explosion That was nowhere near the scale. Most of the small towns only had volunteer fire departments but they also had a mutual aid system. The siren would blow and the volunteers would drive to the fire hall to get the equipment and find out where the fire was. My father and I were swimming when sirens went off all over and we knew it was something big. Both routes 2 or 7 are winding mountain roads but the one he found himself on is a real goat trail. It will never be known if he ran out of luck or made a conscious decision at the point where he crashed but a quarter mile or so downhill is a quaint little town square with a monument in the middle of it that you wouldn't want to negotiate faster than 25 mph in a passenger car. I've been places like that where once you've committed to the road you can't turn around or back up. No fun.