Mad Marv's Place » Engineering http://madmarvonline.com/blog Civil Engineer, CAD Geek, podcast junky and amateur photographer Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:28:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2007 blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com (Mad Marv's Place) blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com (Mad Marv's Place) http://madmarvonline.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Mad Marv's Place http://madmarvonline.com/blog 144 144 A quiet place where I write and nobody reads Mad Marv's Place Mad Marv's Place blogfeedback@madmarvonline.com no no Drainage Fail http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2008/08/28/drainage-fail/ http://madmarvonline.com/blog/2008/08/28/drainage-fail/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:46:16 +0000 madmarv http://madmarvonline.com/blog/?p=78

Found this on the Failblog. Anyone want to take a guess and what confluence of events led to this?

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Hoover Dam spillway

This spillway has only been used once (or twice if you count testing). However, that one use spanned several months when flow from the Colorado river had filled Lake Mead and threatened to top the Hoover Dam. The high water mark can still been seen in this picture because the sides of the canyon were covered in calcification while it was under water.

Hoover_Dam-panorama

The photo above doesn’t show the full size of the Hoover Dam. I turned my camera into portrait mode to capture more of the Dam’s face. But when I stitched the photos together, the whole picture doesn’t fit nicely into a rectangular frame. Click the image below to see the full-sized, uncropped version.

Uncropped version of the prior photo

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Found this story on Digg. I like the 1000′+ outdoor elevator, it is much more impressive than the Grand Canyon Skywalk. If only it weren’t in China.

The only thing that might top this is the Millau Bridge.

Millau Bridge (photo credit: Peter Welland)
Photo source: Peter Welland

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