A number that I saw some 45 years ago that has stuck with me, and I think of somewhat often, is this:
1 inch of rain per hour produces a cubic foot of water per acre per second
It does not take very many acres or very many seconds before you are talking about a lot of water. With the...
Since they are apparently not removing the section of track at the column, I now believe that they replaced all of the bolts at both ends of that section. That's the only explanation I can come up with for the work that they did at both joints.
Workers are at the upstream side of the track this morning. So all I can guess is they are making sure that the bolts are all removable so that they can remove that section of track when the new column arrives. Removal of grout at the base of the verticl column also continues. Question though...
Workers are currently removing the grout from the bottom of the angled column, so clearly they are planning to replace both complete columns and nut just the vertical column and the top section of the angled column.
Here is a very interesting New Yorker article:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen
"I'd like to be remembered as an innovator," Rush told vlogger Alan Estrada in 2021. "I've broken some rules to make this. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fibre and titanium, there's a rule you don't do that. Well, I did."
I am curious to see in...
The camera system being used may be fairly high resolution, but there is a tremendous amount of compression being done to keep the required bandwidth low, so the pictures we are getting are fraught with artifacts.
