AlphaSquad1 t1_j8o1vqx wrote
Reply to comment by yungcarwashy in Was Western Washington’s infrastructure the reason the Nisqually quake had no direct fatalities? by yungcarwashy
That depends. You don’t want to overbuild just for the sake of overbuilding, that’s just make things more expensive needlessly. We still just want to design things to meet its expected requirements, you just want to expand what those requirements are. We would definitely benefit from more infrastructure being built to last longer and be more resilient. But here in Washington we don’t really need to build things to withstand tornadoes. There’s an old saying in engineering: “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes a good engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
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