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Date of upload: Aug 16, 2022 ^^
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My Dad is an engineer. Growing up, we had a whiteboard in the dining room where he could illustrate the cool projects he was working on while we ate dinner. He specialized in dams, but did side projects, too. The dam work was physically very challenging: he had to be rope certified since he was rappelling down and in some cases inside of these gigantic structures, sometimes with lots of equipment. I love your videos because they remind me of those dinner time conversations.
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Iām a park employee in Yellowstone. I was never evacuated from the park so I got to experience the rare sight of a nearly empty Yellowstone during the summer. As a temporary measure the old Gardiner road, a stagecoach route that had been used as a one-way scenic route and bike path for many years has been expanded and is already in use for employees and tour groups from Gardiner mt. Itās convenient because itās an already set path that has been surveyed and it doesnāt follow the course of the river so thereās less chance of further collapse. Communities on the northeast entrance of the park require quick fixes to the roads because otherwise, they are trapped, as the Beartooth pass, the only other way out besides the park roads closes in the winter.
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My family and I just returned from Yellowstone less than 24 hours ago. The repairs and associated reopening of the park is a direct testament to the engineers and contractors working this project. The northern routes were closed for repair and I am glad as the communities in the north border area rely upon these routes for not only tourism but daily life. My hat is off to everyone working hard to restore services to this gem of a national park. As always, an excellent presentation, Grady.
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I was at Yellowstone less than a month before this event (right at the end of pre-season). It was amazing experiencing winter, spring, or summer just by driving only a few miles from where I had just been, and in a place with such awe inspiring terrain. One day I was in snowfall as deep as my hips, and just 15 minutes later was in a completely different climate wearing only a t shirt and shorts
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I've visited yellowstone from europe just one day before the big rainfall. My plan was actually to be there 2 days later but my road trip turned up to be a bit faster than i thought. I guess i am really lucky that i could see the beauty of the park before this big rainstorm. Sad to see how destructive it was. I didn't know it happened untill 2 days later when i was talking to some local people in Cody WY.
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I love your videos man. You give us normies a more detailed (but still consumable and understandable) explanation of what's going on with all the things you talk about.
Definitely in my top 10 educational channels I watch. Especially when it comes to civil engineering.
Keep up the good work, it's appreciated!
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I was at Yellowstone a few weeks ago and while at Mammoth I had the opportunity to talk to an Army Corp of Engineers Ranger who was there as part of a large deployment working on the recovery.
One interesting detail is that the services at Mammoth were at an absolute minimum and the reason is that the fresh water and sewage systems canāt handle all the staff and over night guests, but can handle day use.
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We had a similar incident last year with an "atmospheric river" that hit BC with an unprecedented amount of rainfall twice in two weeks, and as a result, sections of the Coquihala Highway (which connects the Vancouver area to the interior of the province) were washed away. Looking at the damage in videos, I thought for sure it would be years before the highway is restored, but it reopened mere weeks later (albeit in minimal capacity, simply to restore the critical link), thanks to amazing engineering and construction teams. I drove it for the first time since the flooding last weekend, and while it's still not back to 100%, it's amazing to see both the damage and the rebuilding.
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In Scotland, we had a similar rain storm in 2015 called āStorm Frankā. A 500 metre section of highway called the A93 was washed away due to river erosion between the villages of Ballater and Braemar, both in the Cairngorms national park.
And yet, they reopened the road 3 weeks later. They didnāt repair the road, they re-routed it a respectable distance away from the river bank! Ordinarily such a project would take years worth of planning, budget allocation, red tape etcā¦.. but in times of emergency itās interesting to see how quickly they can exercise compulsory purchase orders, make drawings for a new road and let contracts out to build that road. 7 years later, that re-routed road is permanent and has a condition / geometry thatās no worse than the previous section of road. It wouldnāt surprise me if that was one of the cheapest sections of new road to be built on a per mile basis in recent years.
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This video got me thinking about the beach erosion we experience around the county. Specifically, the Outer Banks in North Carolina has changing sands from currents and storms and beaches that need to be repaired. It would be really neat to see a video about beach nourishment efforts and how they pump sand from the sea onto the islands to help with catastrophic storms. Keep up the awesome work!!
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Fantastic video
The 80,000 hours thing is interesting to me. I've been retired almost 3 years and the one thing that has surprised me most is the amount of time I now have versus when I was working.
The 80,000 hours, by the way, doesn't include"
commute time
work prep time (washing work clothes, making sure other life people/events are taken care of while you are away at work)
Worrying about what's going on at work
I'm glad there's a non profit out there trying to help people select the best career for them.
You always hear people say "pick a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life". I've always said that saying is technically true but is mostly BS because most of us wind up having to "take" the first opportunity that presents itself due to economic necessity. (being broke).
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