A brief little segment aired on Kong 6/16. A lot of fun to do, just a little nerve racking when we changed topics right before going on air!
http://www.king5.com/video?id=69794212&sec=549122
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
New Report, Old News
Breaking News – The Alaskan Way Viaduct may collapse during a large earthquake.
So it may not be actual new information but the simulation that was released last week does show something that has not caught the public’s attention like the crumbling Viaduct. That is the devastating impact of an Alaskan Way seawall failure. The rotting seawall which was completed in 1930 holds the soil in place along the Seattle waterfront. A failure of this seawall would send the Alaskan Way surface street into Puget Sound, rupture utility lines, and destabilizing the foundations for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. (Most likely ending in collapse.)
During the Nisqually earthquake portions of the Alaskan Way surface street shifted and settled due to liquefaction of the soil underneath it and further inspections revealed the failing condition of the seawall. While the Viaduct and the proposed tunnel replacement get all the news coverage, the seawall the supports it all continues to rot away.
Who knows, if the debate and political war continues much longer, the failing seawall may take care of the demolition portion of the project.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010140232_webviaduct26m.html
So it may not be actual new information but the simulation that was released last week does show something that has not caught the public’s attention like the crumbling Viaduct. That is the devastating impact of an Alaskan Way seawall failure. The rotting seawall which was completed in 1930 holds the soil in place along the Seattle waterfront. A failure of this seawall would send the Alaskan Way surface street into Puget Sound, rupture utility lines, and destabilizing the foundations for the Alaskan Way Viaduct. (Most likely ending in collapse.)
During the Nisqually earthquake portions of the Alaskan Way surface street shifted and settled due to liquefaction of the soil underneath it and further inspections revealed the failing condition of the seawall. While the Viaduct and the proposed tunnel replacement get all the news coverage, the seawall the supports it all continues to rot away.
Who knows, if the debate and political war continues much longer, the failing seawall may take care of the demolition portion of the project.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010140232_webviaduct26m.html
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