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DESCRIPTION:
6x9
perfect bound
100 pages,
$9.95
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This book is about small bridges, it's about the early pioneers, it's about roads, streams and it's about you.
We look at the really big bridges with awe, we take their photographs and we marvel at their size and the triumphs in engineering that produced them. The benefits of small bridges are hardly noticed but how would you get to Grandma's house for thanksgiving dinner if it were not for those small bridges? When was the last time you crossed one of those mammoth bridges to get to your children's little league game or their high school graduation? When was the last time you really noticed the small bridges that you cross almost every day? This book is about those small bridges that play such a large part in our everyday lives.
Excerpt from pages 60-61:
"All the rivers in Northern California and Southern Oregon have steep watersheds of tremendous size. Thousands of square miles of accumulated water drainage all headed for the Pacific Ocean during any large storm. When it rains throughout their systems the rivers rise and generally they continue to rise until it quits raining. Melting snows can also contribute to flood conditions. What monster storm lies patiently waiting to break all the former records? Which nasty beast of a river will next unleash all its record-breaking fury on those newest bridges, those marvels of modern engineering, to test their strength and endurance? Will it be the Klamath River, the Eel, Trinity, Mad, Van Duzen, Russian River, the Rogue, Umpqua, the rivers of the Sacramento River watershed or perhaps all of the above?
Will Modern engineers ever be able to really tame these beasts that we call rivers? Those rivers so peaceful and serene in the dry season yet pour out their uncontrollable wrath on whatever gets in the way during prolonged rain and snowstorms. What babbling, laughing brook, so much like a beautiful teenage giggling girl will be turned into a raging screaming witch as a result of a wicked storm?"
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