What structural failure would do the most damage in your area of the country?

[jobycom]

I'm in Austin, and there are a couple of dams that could collapse and wipe out half the town and several smaller towns downstream. We've already seen what could happen in New Orleans.

Dams, bridges, levees, elevated roadways, earthworks, buildings... What is your home territory's worst case scenario?

[napi21]

1. There have already been many water main ruptures in Atlanta

that cause HUGH holes in the street and loss of water for a lot of people, but I live about 3 miles from the dam that retains the water supply for Atlanta and many more areas. If something were to happen to that dam, God help almost all of Atlanta!

[Donnachaidh]

2. heh -- I was gonna say the entire Atlanta downtown dropping into a sinkhole

I'm always nervous driving down there.

Any damage to the 75 north/south would REALLY screw up my area. But they always seem to be working on bits of it. :shrug:

Tom Price even has an earmark for a road in Cobb County that is as smooth as a baby's bottom. It's for 6.8 MILLION dollars! For a road that DOESN'T need work! Of course, all his Lexus driving contributors live in THAT area.

[Richard D]

3. Damage to any . . .

. . . freeway bridge in Los Angeles. It's so overcrowded on the edge now that any damage to the infrastructure could shut the whole mess down.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. The sewers here are in really bad shape

[TomInTib]

5. Either the Golden Gate Bridge or Hetch Hetchey Damn.

But I am 110 feet above the Bay so I am OK either way.

[Raine]

In the Los Angeles area probably

the freeways but there are some bridges in the port area that could cause problems.

[w8liftinglady]

6. I live in DFW area-If the I 35 bridge into Dallas fell-it would be a nightmare

[w8liftinglady]

12. I heard on the radio this AM that 2110 bridges in Tx are substandard

and this was on a conservative station.

[Az]

7. Detroit has a major tunnel and a bridge to Canada

The collapse of either would be rather nasty loss of life. The bridge would be a major economic blow as it is a primary route of trucks into the US for a lot of imports.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. I thinking the structure of my

government is causing the most damage. Until we can rid the Congress and Senate of its obligation to PAC's and corporations, we will continue to endure the corrosion.

[annabanana]

9. lets see... anybody got a count of bridges & tunnels, NYC metro area?

Wherever we are, we'll be stranded. .

[Homer Wells]

10. We had a failure of this sort back in the SIxties, when the Silver Bridge

in Point Pleasant, West Virginia fell one evening in December. The 35W bridge was a lot larger, but our tragedy was nonetheless horrifying.

My prayers to the good folk in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

:cry: :grouphug:

[karlrschneider]

11. Easy. Any of 5 large dams within 50 miles of here.

...

[porphyrian]

13. Probably the nuclear power plant downstate would be the worst.

There's one in Central Florida, and I think there another almost equidistant from here up in Alabama or Georgia, I forget. Those would be the worst, I think.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

14. The courts in tallahasse could collapse and not count the votes

and give the presidency to an ass.