#us infrastructure

There hasn't been a year of peace from accidents on that turn BECAUSE OF THE TRUCKS. They have hit people, fallen over, crashed and skidded off that corner almost 4-5 times a year over the last 5 years I've been here and it's driving me NUTS.

And yet? Nothing. They just replace the guard rail every time it happens and no one bothers to put a no trucks sign up on that section of road.

Excerpt from ASCE's 2021 Infrastructure Report Card:

There are more than 617,000 bridges across the United States. Currently, 42% of all bridges are at least 50 years old, and 46,154, or 7.5% of the nation’s bridges, are considered structurally deficient, meaning they are in “poor” condition. Unfortunately, 178 million trips are taken across these structurally deficient bridges every day. 

An imminent threat facing America is the decaying state of the Power Grid. This is the first instance on this scale of a climate change enhanced weather threat forcing a utility to put the power off due to the threat to the Grid, at least that I'm aware of. But expect it to become more common unless the government forces them to update and overhaul it with a huge stimulus, and then to force them to take better care of it.

As you can see from the yellow and red dots which indicate danger, the united states is covered in them. unsurprisingly theyre in some of the poorest areas of the united state. 

By 2020 85% of all dams in the united states will be past their life expectancy, and the dams which won’t be past their life expectancy don’t mean they’re safe, the vast majority of those dams are still not technologically advanced enough for our modern society, nearly all dams in the united states are hazardous when looking at this map. 

It doesn’t matter how solid a dam is down river from a high-hazard dam. If the high hazard dam fails it will wash out all the dams down river, which will flood even the low risk dams, and can cause failure.