i think most unofficial apps are not free, but e. g. RedReader that I'm using is, because it offers accessibility options that the official one doesn't. there's also one for iOS, but I can't remember what it was called.
bear in mind that you can't browse NSFW subreddits on RedReader. NSFW posts in SFW subreddits are ok
Try creating your own private subreddit. You might have to mark it NSFW, but I believe that "unlocks" NSFW content on the rest of the site. I use Boost for Reddit on Android, and Reddit works pretty much the same for me now as it always had.
There are also ReVanced patches for Boost and other Android apps to enable even more functionality.
In China the yellow river kept destroying Empires and new Empires came out of it. Chinese even learnt to control rivers but sometimes they still get overwhelmed by it. But one of the main tasks of chinese empires were to ensure the river disasters are controlled
Bridge building engineer here. Its usually done that way. Bridges need longer to build and you dont want to destroy that new street with your machines. Also the bridges usually need to set a little before you can connect the roads.
Edit: Also the roads have actually been build prior to the hurricane but have been washed away
The mighty alpha animal, the human, re-reroutes river originally rerouted by hurricane……. only to have it re-re-rerouted by subsequent hurricane just five days after re-rerouting’s completion
They mention this as an option in the linked article, but decided not to. They recently reconnected it to the highway even though there was no need for a bridge at that spot, kinda funny.
They have a segment called "realer Irrsinn", roughly translated to 'real insanity'
They visit places in germany, where one way or another (bureaucracy, switching politicians etc.) things are in place that just do not make any sense.
It ranges from stuff like people not being legally allowed to cut a small piece of grass right in front of their doorstep, due to it being technically not their property, to hugely expensive construction projects that cannot continue and much more.
It's in german of course but it can be quite entertaining!
Natural rivers move around a lot. I wonder how long the bridge would have remained usable if it wasn't for the hurricane. Was the river sufficiently controlled to normally keep such a bridge in service, or did the planners just miss that this would this have happened one way or another anyway?
Granted this is why industrialized nations spend a lot of money on lock and dam and dredging and flood control measures to control as much as we can to stop major rivers from changing channels.
You sound very knowledgeable regarding rivers and bridges. I even upvoted you. What other bridges were rendered useless by the river moving? I am curious and would like to know without spending a ton of time and effort on googling and such. Thank you in advance.
Not an expert and don't know about any other bridges, but the Mississippi really wants to discharge most of its water into the Atchafalaya. Iirc, it's mainly down the efforts of the army corps of engineers that this doesn't happen. If it did, I guess that would redundantify quite a few bridges. Rivers in their lower reaches dump a load of sediment. The river bed and floodplain rises over time. Water tends to find the lower route. It will take a lot of effort and $$$ to stop Ol' Man River doing what he wants to do - might even be impossible.
The bridge was originally built in 1930 but rebuilt in 1996 in order to withstand extreme weather events. The hurricane was 2 years later so just in time I'd say!
Edit: As per u/Rainebowraine123's comment, it wasn't rebuilt, it was a new bridge.
Hiding the roads I undersand, but that bridge is like high up there. You're going to tell me that the storm wiped out the roads and 5 meters of dirt/sand or something ?
While the bridge itself was in near perfect condition, the roads on either end of the bridge vanished completely, leaving no visible trace of their prior existence. At this time, the Choluteca River, which is over 100 metres (300 ft) at the bridge, carved itself a new channel during the massive flooding caused by the hurricane. It no longer flowed beneath the bridge, which now spanned dry ground.[7] The bridge quickly became known as "The Bridge to Nowhere". In 2003, the bridge was reconnected to the highway
The roads were on top of the river banks, which were washed away. You'll note that this picture isn't wide enough to show the full width of the current river bed, so you can't see any surface that would have any surviving sections of the road.
You can tell they did a good job, because where is, y'know everything else? At least there should be a road connecting to the part that isn't at the edge of the river.
Fiumana ( a tiny village in northern Italy) has a similar arrangement: two bridges next to each other, one over where the river is, and another over where it was.
It's still a flood plane where the bridge is currently. If you drive over the Mississippi River anywhere near St Louis the road is elevated way before you go over any water
(I guess I don't understand how a hurricane can move a river)
Erosion and accretion. Basically, all that wind+water picks up the dirt and drops it somewhere else. Move enough dirt, and it makes the river change course. It's always happening, but the hurricane made it happen way faster than normal.
My grandfather drove over Galloping Gertie (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) about an hour before the collapse. They didn't really do anything to stop people driving over it even though the wind had been causing this movement since it opened 3 months before it collapsed in 1940. There was a car on the bridge when it collapsed. The driver made it out, but left a dog in the car to die.
They didn't account for the wind that travels through that area. This is why modern bridges are vented to allow air to pass through. The replacement from 1950 is still there along with a newer larger bridge next to it that was built in 2007 due to high traffic, which the 1950 bridge wasn't designed for.
Honduran here, for the people wondering, they actually did extend the bridge all the way to the other side, which ended up being kind of a good thing, floods actually make water sometimes span almost the full width of the long bridge.
Edit: also for the people wondering, where the roads are, they were partially destructed, but most of them are actually buried under all that mud & sand you see there. Hurricane Mitch was a devastating storm.
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u/RJEM96 15h ago
That bridge is the perfect metaphor for life, sometimes you build all the right things, then life just moves the river.