When you live in two rural areas, as the DrsC do, you don't expect to see your neighborhood featured in a New York Times story. The following story is about a mini-disaster that happened within 6-8 miles of our California winter home.
CA 149 is a heavily traveled short highway that connects CA 99 with CA 70, two relatively main north-south routes on the east side of California's central valley. It is part of the direct highway route between the two largest cities in Butte County: Chico and Oroville. The route is being improved, with overpasses being built at both ends of 149. This morning, one of these bridges under construction fell down and crushed a FedEx truck. About three people were hurt, so far no one has died.
My limited knowledge of engineering suggests that the design, the execution, or both were faulty.
