A piece of news

[charisstoma]

Much travelled piece of street especially during the times people are trying to get to work or home from work. Notice the place on the retaining wall that is not even with the other panels between the two painted over graffitti.
Always thought that that was an interesting turn off Hulen onto Vickery. A little scary since I don't like large things looming over me. This is just down from there.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4550+Vickery+Boulevard,+Fort+Worth,+TX&sspn=0.003603,0.006738&ie=UTF8&om=0&hq=&hnear=4550+W+Vickery+Blvd,+Fort+Worth,+Tarrant,+Texas+76107&ll=32.719223,-97.387394&spn=0,359.993144&z=17&lci=com.panoramio.all,com.youtube.all&layer=c&cbll=32.719176,-97.38748&panoid=6HOtE65798Usr_l3yQPiQA&cbp=12,34.14,,0,5.08

Now compare and contrast with the pictures in the article.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1951015.html






The news tells us to worry about the safety of our bridges and this type has happened before in other places more dramatically but I travel this street from time to time. Amazing.

Comments

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

Basic infrastructure maintenance in this country has been neglected to a ridiculous degree for decades. We're spending bazillions of dollars chasing phantom terrorists, while our roads, bridges, dams (and retaining walls) are crumbling around us. It's crazy, but there you go; it's always easier to justify spending money on the big, newsworthy things than on the smaller, more boring things which hold everything else together.

Angie

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

It's frustrating.

Politics.

[luzestrellera.livejournal.com]

scary... and with some maintannance those kind of accidents could be avoided...
in my country we are used to that kind of negligence, things are keep working only by miracle sometimes :P

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Sometimes we forget that nothing is forever. Then something like this happens. This is the manmade stuff.

There's this supervolcano in the middle of the U.S....
Yellowstone National Park. It's not exactly inactive.

[luzestrellera.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes we forget that nothing is forever"
yeap, really true

and yeap... here we have those too and zones where natural disasters can easily happens, yet the people still build cities there...

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

You've got these places called Etna and Vesuvius.
The picture of Etna's snowcapped summit looks so beautiful and peaceful. If you didn't know, you'd never think anything but what a nice place.

We live in an interesting world.

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

well that's scary. where I am, they take good care of our large structures and walls, because we get earthquakes.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

The parts of your state I saw while living there were magical.

With the fires and lots and lots of rain you've had recently.. am hoping that they did keep up the infastructure enough. You're in flat safe areas, right?

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

I live near the beach - we got hit by a tornado a week or so ago. xD But yeah, my area is definitely flat.