{"id":25942,"date":"2020-01-02T08:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25942"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:11:24","slug":"auburn-upstream-cofferdam-failure-18-feb-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25942","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Upstream Cofferdam Failure, 18 Feb 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Auburn_Upstream_Coffferdam.jpg\" alt=\"Auburn Upstream Coffferdam\" class=\"wp-image-25943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Auburn_Upstream_Coffferdam.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Auburn_Upstream_Coffferdam-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Auburn_Upstream_Coffferdam-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this interesting for a couple of reasons: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The amount of effort and the magnitude of scale put into a sctructure that was intended to fail, in order to prevent a bigger destruction and<\/li><li>The great example it was of the philosophy of the Lee Child character, Jack Reacher, &#8220;Hope for the best, plan for the worst.&#8221;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>A philosophy sadly lacking in our state and federal governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as it is the start of a new year, what are you doing to hope for the best with your goals for the year and plan for the worst with your disaster prepardness plans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Auburn Upstream Cofferdam Failure, 02\/18\/1986\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tDmwo5nsWfQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting for a couple of reasons: The amount of effort and the magnitude of scale put into a sctructure that was intended to fail, in order to prevent a bigger destruction and The great example it was of the philosophy of the Lee Child character, Jack Reacher, &#8220;Hope for the best, plan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Auburn Upstream Cofferdam Failure, 18 Feb 1986&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25944,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25942\/revisions\/25944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}