RE: [GSAS-Member] Malaysian Trumpet Snails (MTS)

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

Your welcome.

Well drive carefull.....hopefully it won't be raining
too. ~smile~

Trish
--- "auntie.fran@netzero.net"
<auntie.fran@netzero.net> wrote:

> 
> Thanks, Trish...looks as though I may have to battle
> my way through before it's finished...as though the
> drive from Marysville to Fort Lewis weren't long
> enough :(
> 
> 
> Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional.
> 
> -- Trish <snips36@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is what I found in the Seattle Times. Looks
> like
> it will be for about 1 month on the weekends.
> 
> Trish
>  
> 
> 
> Friday, April 22, 2005 - Page updated at 03:05 p.m
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Busy weekend coincides with I-5 lane closures
> 
> By Susan Gilmore
> 
> Seattle Times staff reporter
>  
> It's bad enough that the Mariners are in town this
> weekend, but add to the mix a Sonics playoff game at
> KeyArena tomorrow night and the U2 rock concert
> Sunday
> night also at the arena. 
> 
> And then throw in two lane closures on Interstate 5.
> 
> 
> Tonight, the Washington Department of Transportation
> begins a month of weekend closures on southbound I-5
> to repave the aging freeway. It's the first major
> rehabilitation project for I-5 through downtown
> Seattle since the freeway's completion in the
> mid-1960s. 
> 
> At noon today crews closed the southbound freeway
> exit
> to Union Street. 
> 
> At 10 p.m., crews will close two lanes of southbound
> I-5 and the Howell Street onramp to southbound I-5.
> The ramps and lanes will remain closed until 5 a.m.
> Monday. 
> 
> The express lanes will run southbound all weekend,
> 24-hours a day, beginning at 10 p.m. tonight. Three
> lanes of southbound I-5 will remain open all
> weekend. 
> 
> The state is repaving the freeway from the
> southbound
> Howell Street onramp near Olive Way to James Street,
> tearing up the old asphalt and replacing it with
> concrete. It is a $5 million project. 
> 
> 
> The state's contractor, Gary Merlino Construction,
> will replace the old asphalt with three inches of
> new
> asphalt and 13-inches of concrete, said Paul
> Johnson,
> assistant project engineer who, as a college
> student,
> worked on the original construction of I-5 in 1966. 
> 
> DOT officials say the worse-case scenario, if
> drivers
> don't take alternative routes, northbound I-5 could
> be
> backed up for five miles beyond Boeing Field
> tomorrow
> afternoon because of the express-lane shift, and I-5
> southbound could be stalled to Northeast 145th
> Street.
>   
>   
>  
> "The Sonics game took it over the top," said Stan
> Suchan, DOT spokesman. "But you can't rant against
> the
> Sonics." 
> 
> On Saturdays, 102,000 cars normally are on the
> stretch
> of I-5 from James Street to Olive Way, where two
> lanes
> of the freeway will be closed this weekend. It peaks
> at noon with 6,800 cars. 
> 
> Sundays, the number is 94,000, with the peak of
> 6,600
> again at noon. 
> 
> This weekend is the first of four major construction
> weekends for this project, which is scheduled to end
> May 23. But rainy weather could delay the project
> into
> June. 
> 
> The state is hoping drivers will take alternative
> routes, such as Interstate 405 and Highway 99
>  
> 
> --- "auntie.fran@netzero.net"
> <auntie.fran@netzero.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Trish?  Anyone?  Do you know if it's just *this*
> > weekend or if it's going to take two or three
> > weekends???
> > 
> > 
> > Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional.
> > 
> > -- Trish <snips36@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I think they have already started on it late this
> > afternoon. It sounds like it will be a BIG
> > inconvience
> > for alot of people.
> > 
> > Trish
> > --- "auntie.fran@netzero.com"
> > <auntie.fran@netzero.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think it's being shut down to one or two lanes
> > > through downtown over the weekend for some
> serious
> > > maintenance.  I just don't want to get
> "involved"
> > :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Growing old is inevitable; growing up is
> optional.
> > > 
> > > -- "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>
> wrote:
> > > Uhoh...I had not heard about I-5.....what is
> > > happening there?
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: auntie.fran@netzero.com
> > > [mailto:auntie.fran@netzero.com] 
> > > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:37 AM
> > > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> > > Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Malaysian Trumpet
> > Snails
> > > (MTS)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > There may be a bit of delay...I was planning on
> > > going some time this
> > > weekend but with the mess on I-5, I think not! 
> > I'll
> > > let you know when I
> > > go.  And, you're welcome :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Growing old is inevitable; growing up is
> optional.
> > > 
> > > -- "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>
> wrote:
> > > Thanks......I can always meet you someplace if
> you
> > > wish on the way back
> > > up too, or pick them up if you like.  Just let
> me
> > > know.....I am anxious
> > > to get the snails......Thanks again.
> > > 
> > > Clay
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: auntie.fran@netzero.net
> > > [mailto:auntie.fran@netzero.net] 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 5:25 AM
> > > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> > > Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Malaysian Trumpet
> > Snails
> > > (MTS)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'll try to get anough for both of us, Clay. 
> I'll
> > > be driving to Fort
> > > Lewis for them and can probably swing by on my
> way
> > > back to Marysville to
> 
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