O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas – small dead animals

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Hmpffff. Free bread and circuses ALMOST worked for Julius Ceasar so maybe if these Donk tards in California do it harder and faster they will get a better result!
Unlike God, Darwin moves in boringly predictable ways.

Way to go, performing metallurgical tests AFTER embedding the rods in 17 to 24 feet of concrete! Good thing they failed at installation instead of during the next quake.
Someone in quality control was asleep at the switch at the foundry which should know that hydrogen embrittlement happens if the parts are exposed to atmospheric moisture while white hot. High tensile steel is often hot forged in a controlled environment with most of or all moisture removed from the air or in a chamber filled with neutral gases such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide.
The second quality control failure was at the work site. Did no one specify that the pieces should be tested for brittleness before being installed. It’s just a $6B bridge in an earthquake zone; you can’t slap it together.

Spendthrift dinosaurs like Brown will soon be going extinct in the economic cataclysm they created. For the past 3 decades self-destructive progressivism has redefined the purpose of government from that of a guardian of rights and freedoms to that of a fountain of over-indulgent charity buying voter fealty. It was evident from the start this Robin Hood governing model was unsustainable, but now that the tax revenues are drying up in the depression, the spendthrift reflex is toxic in limited revenue jurisdictions like small towns and cities, and absolutely disastrous in high debt/reduced revenue jurisdictions like Calif., Chicago, Detroit etc.
Perhaps these districts have to go bankrupt and see the population relocate to rid themselves of self destructive progressivist public purse managers. But then again, like locusts, they too will migrate to more abundant locales and proceed to devastate them.

Well Jim, California is just one of the more blatant examples, but promises of free bread and circuses in general are working out quite well for the politicians both in the US and in Canada.
I am not an expert in steel quality control by any means, but in my first life, while doing cost accounting for Columbus Chain in St. Catharines, the anchor chain links were each ex-rayed for imperfections. I am sure the process is more sophisticated these days.