"Three men returning from a bowling tournament. A mother and daughter heading to a baby shower. Two Shriners who had gone to a black-tie dinner and were heading home to Toronto. A married couple driving to Texas. A truck driver heading from Green Bay, Wis., to Goshen in Orange County.
One fateful moment brought them all together 26 years ago at 10:50 a.m. on a Sunday morning, April 5, 1987. As they drove along the New York State Thruway near Fort Hunter, the bridge collapsed. All 10 died.
The bridge came down during a spring flood caused by snow melt and torrential rains."
The video of same bridge is available in your tube courtesy Vintage news
When I was in Texas A&M Pursuing my Ph D this is the basis for the Civil Engineering (A fluvial geotechnical problem - ha ha I know for those not knowing much Civil Engineering this will be gibberish) Ph D work me and a few others did. Texas state funded a project to make sure all the bridges that are not founded on bedrock to be evaluated for the failure. That is what governments and people representatives should do when a natural disaater occur; to learn and improve.
My research work along with others who worked with me is patented thru Texas A&M University System and is in use for solving bridge scour problem. What else we need satisfaction in our life, when what you worked for is used for benefit of others.
After 20 years and not completing the PhD, when I met with my professor in College Station TX, I heard this news and I am very happy.
What is a Civil Engineering in me doing in IT and what's my perspective of the whole research and moving away to Corporate (worked for IBM, Microsoft, State Street and now with Maxim Integrated) is -
It does not matter what you do as long as its useful for some one;
It enhances lives of others; it makes you smile thinking go what you did;
You feel you accomplished something however small it may be;
My research work along with others who worked with me is patented thru Texas A&M University System and is in use for solving bridge scour problem. What else we need satisfaction in our life, when what you worked for is used for benefit of others.
After 20 years and not completing the PhD, when I met with my professor in College Station TX, I heard this news and I am very happy.
What is a Civil Engineering in me doing in IT and what's my perspective of the whole research and moving away to Corporate (worked for IBM, Microsoft, State Street and now with Maxim Integrated) is -
It does not matter what you do as long as its useful for some one;
It enhances lives of others; it makes you smile thinking go what you did;
You feel you accomplished something however small it may be;
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