Thebridgecollapse happened so fast that it left little time for the work crews on the bridge to escape. Civil engineers like me have been paying attention to this disaster, because we want to find ways to make infrastructure like these large bridges more resilient. For a bridge this large to...
About 150-years ago, the number of covered bridges in New York State would've been around 300. That number has dwindled precipitously. Due to flooding, neglect, and just the passages of time, there are only about 30 covered bridges left in New York. The one in Cooperstown is a doozie....
Just getting to the entrance to the cave is a mission in itself, as it lies high up on the glacier, so first you get into an off-road coach to get to the base camp just beneath the glacier, and then you board a monster eight-wheeled glacier truck to drive up on to the ice and ...