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September 29, 2002
The flying manhole covers of Georgetown
Here's another risk to add to your daily routine: flying manhole covers. The problem has been around for some time, but it has not received much attention, except if you live in the DC area, where there has been more intensive coverage of the epidemic of flying manhole covers. They'd had a spate of them a few years ago, and now they're back again. They're still pretty rare occurrences, but there have been fatalities before. The secret life of what's underneath the manhole covers is what keeps things running: gas, electricity, data conduits, water and sewage. The complexity of the systems is enormous if you think of the many interconnects that there are in order to get the payload where it needs to go. And it's costly too, although the costs can be depreciated over many years. I've never been able to remember whether I should walk on the cracks in the pavement, or avoid them. But avoiding manhole covers is a lot easier. So next time you see one, think of the infrastructure that's underneath, and try not to walk too close to it. Posted by qsi at September 29, 2002 12:09 AM
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