We were surprised with bridge collapse connection, but also about the bridge. As an engineer (retired) I just kept saying to myself, how did they mess up this bad?
I like the Silver Bridge story. It reminds of how the Roman Empire would prevent Engineers from cutting corners when building bridges. They would routinely make the families of the engineer stand under the bridge as the scaffolding was removed, and in some cases the families were required to live there for Months at a time. I suspect that bridge might still be standing today if we had tried the Roman way.
I sympathize with your difficulty of planning trips around animal care - we have several rescue dogs, planning for them is often more work than planning the vacation.
What impressed me, I guess more like shocked me, so much was in the era the bridge was built, things tended to be over engineered (as observed by a retired engineer).
I agree about the Roman style of engineering, it probably would still be standing.
I had no idea about any of this! So terrible about the bridge.
We were surprised with bridge collapse connection, but also about the bridge. As an engineer (retired) I just kept saying to myself, how did they mess up this bad?
I like the Silver Bridge story. It reminds of how the Roman Empire would prevent Engineers from cutting corners when building bridges. They would routinely make the families of the engineer stand under the bridge as the scaffolding was removed, and in some cases the families were required to live there for Months at a time. I suspect that bridge might still be standing today if we had tried the Roman way.
I sympathize with your difficulty of planning trips around animal care - we have several rescue dogs, planning for them is often more work than planning the vacation.
What impressed me, I guess more like shocked me, so much was in the era the bridge was built, things tended to be over engineered (as observed by a retired engineer).
I agree about the Roman style of engineering, it probably would still be standing.