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      <title>Comments On: Kablooie!
    
      by Joe Streckert</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[Mark S.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[An interesting and informative article.  Should disposal attempts of the wreck of the New Carissa be sufficiently infamous for inclusion?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Carter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The civil defense center at Kelly Butte was a fully finished, functional alternate city headquarters with its own well, generators, radio tower, and decontamination facility. It had a large command room with a big map of the Portland area at one end as well as dormitories and offices for police, fire, mayor and other city officials. It had bedding but I don't know if the kitchen was ever stocked.<br>
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My father was the engineer who did the structural design of it, and I saw the inside of it when it was almost finished.<br>
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It was buried in the east side of Kelly Butte, with one end accessible but highly secure.
        
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      <![CDATA[Katu was on the scene for the whale explosion.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ
        
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      <![CDATA[i'm kind of surprised not to read any comments about an "explosion in my pants" yet.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[AlaskanNow]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I wonder if the Florence whale blast is where "Reno 911!" got the idea to have the deputies blow up a beached whale in the "Reno 911!:Miami" movie.
        
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      <![CDATA[#8 good question.  And I hope to hell that driver got a wicked good tip!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Todd Mecklem]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Scott, Pearl Harbor was in a colony—sorry, territory *of* the United States, not in the U.S itself.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Hawaii" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_&hellip;</a>
        
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      <![CDATA["His bombs and the balloons were the only direct hits Japan made against the US in WWII."<br>
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Pearl Harbor?
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:01:23 -0800</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Todd Mecklem]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Also...hmm, first Arab-themed ad I've ever had Google Ads serve up on the Merc site, and it happens to be when I click through to an article about explosions. <br>
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<a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6439819311_4ddb531d8e_b.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6439819&hellip;</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[How much did the taxi ride did to Eugene and back cost?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[markmark]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You forgot that Oregon Ranger Station that E.L.F. blew up back in the 90s.
        
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          <a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Profile?oid=1491510">markmark</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:25:59 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Illustrations really are fantastic. Great article too. +1 <3's
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:39:49 -0800</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Fruit Cup]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Worthwhile read! Thanks!
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm so proud of Jeff. Those illustrations are adorable.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:30:25 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[This was a blast!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:01:59 -0800</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[you forgot to mention the hottest fire in oregon history when the giant entirely wooden hall of the 1902 World's Fair exhibition center went up in a whoosh. It was so hot there are still scorch marks on the tarmac of Guild Lake road. It was estimated to have burned at 2500 degrees for an hour and totally consumed. The two firemen AND their horses were instantly killed by simply riding within 15 feet of the inferno. <br>
duh.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[dmitrir]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You forgot to mention the shelling of Fort Stevens by a Japanese submarine during WWII.  At least one of the shells exploded.  No one was injured, and US forces did not return fire.  <br>
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An American B-17 later dropped bombs in the vicinity of the submarine, but the sub slipped away unharmed.  This happened off the coast, but it still merits mention.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:49:59 -0800</pubDate>
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