If we don’t start maintaining our infrastructure properly, we’ll start seeing this in the US pretty damn soon.
From a Google search for “bridges needing repair”:
…And so on. With these numbers, MANY repeats of this disaster are inevitable.
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BUT WE NEED A SOUTHERN BORDER WALL
/s
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Seeing that Dear Leader has now engineered a $1 Trillion deficit, there aren even less resources available for infrastructure repair that before. #winning
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I’ve not looked at the reports since yesterday, so there may be more information out, but there are 3 things relevant to this particular collapse:
- There was a 3+ magnitude earthquake shortly before
- A severe typhoon storm had ended hours before, extremely high winds had buffeted the bridge and surge water had perhaps weakened pylons
- The bridge’s design firm had been making annual inspections and reports to the harbor company who owned the bridge saying that the maintenance was shockingly poor and that immediate remediation was not made a failure was expected.
That third-one might just be early blame-casting – the reporting in the immediate aftermath of a crisis is often wrong, but it doesn’t seem like the conjecture here in comments has yet taken note of the above.
with a snake-filled moat!
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5 deaths and one still missing at last report.
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Due to a fire in the underpass… BUT…
Fucked up traffic even worse for months while they fixed it.
I don’t think it needs shockingly bad design. Rather, it probably had enough of a safety margin when it was designed. The maintenance wasn’t being done, it grew weaker until the margin eroded to zero. At that point any failure will cascade and bring it down.
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