Folks-this is I-40. YOu know, the one that goes across the country. https://t.co/KD0FagHJUN
— Dee Parsons (@wartwatch) September 17, 2018
If this is I-40 — and I’ve no reason to doubt it — it is also an egregious engineering design failure.
The rationale for the construction of the Interstate Highway System is national defense, to enable rapid transport of troops and supplies from one part of the country to another — and they are designed to be passable without regard to transient weather events.
What has happened, probably, is that it was designed correctly decades ago, and then construction along the Interstate corridor proceeded without consideration of its effects upon the highway and without objection from the feds. Now, we have a highway system that can no longer be relied upon to serve its original purpose.