Picture of the Day: Heavy Rains Kill 5 in South Korea
This photo shows a collapsed road as heavy rain hits the central city of Chungju, some 105 km southeast of Seoul, in this photo provided by Chungju on Aug. 2, 2020. (Yonhap)
This photo shows a collapsed road as heavy rain hits the central city of Chungju, some 105 km southeast of Seoul, in this photo provided by Chungju on Aug. 2, 2020. (Yonhap)
Every time something like this happens, there’s a great opportunity to study how roads are actually built and what kind of foundation rests under the one layer of shale, and compressed soil layered with maybe two coats of asphalt.
There’s this thing called “drainage” and there are supposed to be culverts capable of handling at least the 500 Year Flood volume.
But I have seen similR road failures on “state” and “county” roads in California and Texas, so it’s likely they went cheap and the decision-makers gambled on being out of office by the time the inevitable disaster happened
I hope this time no one was hurt or killed.
Sorry, just read tge headline.
It probably comes down to bali bali construction and then no drainage.
Road to Sampoong.
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