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Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts) Mon Jul 20, 2015, 10:55 AM Jul 2015

Infrastructure and climate change - I-10 bridge collapse in California

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/california-i-10-bridge-collapses-travel-woes-could-last/
The collapse of the I-10 bridge in California can be viewed as a story about both the sorry state of our country's infrastructure and the havoc caused by climate change.
How much longer can the Republicans continue denying the existence of both?

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Infrastructure and climate change - I-10 bridge collapse in California (Original Post) Sanity Claws Jul 2015 OP

Climate changes, too? Bad Thoughts Jul 2015 #1

California now has its bridges made in China. Who is supposed to pay for this infrastructure Romulox Jul 2015 #2

Bad Thoughts

(2,524 posts)

1. Climate changes, too?

Reply to Sanity Claws (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 11:07 AM

Jul 2015

Please, the republicans need to get their heads out of their a**es about climate change. However, I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years: when it rains, it rains hard. The concrete river floods, sewers are overwhelmed. Drivers and pedestrians are stranded, and sometimes they die. Mudslides take out homes and highways. I would hope there would have been more attention to infrastrucutre after the Northridge Earthquake, but I am sure the roads are aging. That said, I don't see how this is specifically related to climate change.

Romulox

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2. California now has its bridges made in China. Who is supposed to pay for this infrastructure