California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted

Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted by macintux on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:17PM (#13697274)

I don't get that. Every time a bridge collapses somewhere, we talk about it. During the financial crisis, we talked about infrastructure spending as a way to get more printed money in circulation.

It may be a surprise to those who don't follow the news, but what can you do about that?

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Re:California Dam Crisis Could Have Been Averted by maxerickson on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @12:36PM (#13697503)

We talk about bridge collapses because they happen infrequently enough to be news.

Wikipedia has the claim that there are more than 600,000 (!) bridges in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_the_United_...

Imagine if even 0.1% of them were failing catastrophically each year (as opposed to being removed from service in a planned way).

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