| ▲ | Most People Don't Think About Culverts. Their Failure Can Be Deadly(nytimes.com) | |||||||
| 16 points by cainxinth 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ||||||||
| ▲ | mikestew 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
| ▲ | bknight1983 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
First learned of culverts after the 2006 Upstate New York flood wiped out part of I-88 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Collapse-of-New-York-Sta... | ||||||||
| ▲ | voakbasda 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
I have a farm with dozens of culverts. I never appreciated them until I moved here and had to maintain and replace some of my own. Turns out those simple plastic tubes can cost a thousand dollars or more, and that is before you get to the cost to (re)install them. Infrastructure is expensive. | ||||||||
| ▲ | weightedreply 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
I learned a lot about culverts after following post 10! ¹ | ||||||||
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