08-08-2018, 07:35 PM
(08-08-2018, 10:22 AM)KevinT Wrote: Hopefully our King St grade separation will never be host to scenes like these:
It will only be a matter of time, but it will happen sooner or later. That is why they have so many fail-safes, procedures, and practice so much.
You can't really build for the 1000 year flood, I guess you could, but it would get very big and expensive very quickly, so instead we only build for the 100 year flood and hope that we aren't the next Ellicott City, Maryland and get two, 1000 year storms less than two years.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.