This is what an unexpected 10" overnight rain looked like this morning
This is the job HC drove by a few days ago. Ky Lake Speedway in upper right corner.
Sorry, It's all my fault.
Good layout. The porta-potties in both pics are generally high and dry. Crews do have their priorities.
Those are the kind of things that put contractors in the Loony Bin.
Fall of 1981 we had a rain where 25 inches fell in 3 days. I was working a highway bridge job at US62/ Canadian River. The job included ramps and an interchange. The contractor had all his equipment (a dozen scrapers, 4 or 5 push cats, erection cranes, draglines and track hoes) parked "up high" in anticipation of the rain.
The river took a turn a half mile up stream and carved its way through about 80 acres of a good alfalfa field, leaving all the equipment stranded on an island perched about 20' above the raging water. As the river chewed away at the island over the next week the equipment dropped into the river piece by piece. All the previously placed new piers were lost as well as a half a mile of bank on both sides. The entire job had to be "re-engineered".
Pretty amazing to watch what a river can do. All a person can do is get out of its way.
paden cash, post: 380402, member: 20 wrote: Fall of 1981 we had a rain where 25 inches fell in 3 days. I was working a highway bridge job at US62/ Canadian River. The job included ramps and an interchange. The contractor had all his equipment (a dozen scrapers, 4 or 5 push cats, erection cranes, draglines and track hoes) parked "up high" in anticipation of the rain.
The river took a turn a half mile up stream and carved its way through about 80 acres of a good alfalfa field, leaving all the equipment stranded on an island perched about 20' above the raging water. As the river chewed away at the island over the next week the equipment dropped into the river piece by piece. All the previously placed new piers were lost as well as a half a mile of bank on both sides. The entire job had to be "re-engineered".
Pretty amazing to watch what a river can do. All a person can do is get out of its way.
Thing is, this isnt even on a river. The 2 small bridges cross a usually dry ditch.
Aren't they racing in Kentucky this weekend?
Joe the Surveyor, post: 380444, member: 118 wrote: Aren't they racing in Kentucky this weekend?
Yeah, buy Sparta is about 250 miles east of here. I giuess they must be getting some of it there, I see qualifying is rained out.
