01-24-2025, 01:28 AM
A good friend of ours is an engineer with the Illinois Toll Way.
Several months ago, he and his wife visited us here and while they did get to enjoy several days of that great Hilo sun and all, they also got to experience a few days of some good Hilo rain. It was one of those periods over a few days when we got 10 plus inches of rain.
Our friend made a comment to us one day was that he was utterly surprised at considering the weather extreme he witnessed in 12 days he was here at how good the condition of the roads were. (I'm talking paved roads - they did find our trek into the Acres quite comical)
Needless to say, he was quite amazed at the "run off" of the water he saw and how it not only goes over the road in "sheets" but that it also runs underneath the road. Then when the sun came out and the heat hits it. "Recipe for disaster" was all he could say! (Well, that's an engineer for you)
He was, as much as I hate to say it, very impressed with the condition of our roads! Imagine that.
This coming from an engineer who designs and builds roads that see 1.5 plus million vehicles a day and has temperature variances from plus 90 in the summer to -20 in the winter, plus the rain they do get as well as the snow, along with ton after ton of calcium chloride spread all over them and then snowplows!
Several months ago, he and his wife visited us here and while they did get to enjoy several days of that great Hilo sun and all, they also got to experience a few days of some good Hilo rain. It was one of those periods over a few days when we got 10 plus inches of rain.
Our friend made a comment to us one day was that he was utterly surprised at considering the weather extreme he witnessed in 12 days he was here at how good the condition of the roads were. (I'm talking paved roads - they did find our trek into the Acres quite comical)
Needless to say, he was quite amazed at the "run off" of the water he saw and how it not only goes over the road in "sheets" but that it also runs underneath the road. Then when the sun came out and the heat hits it. "Recipe for disaster" was all he could say! (Well, that's an engineer for you)
He was, as much as I hate to say it, very impressed with the condition of our roads! Imagine that.
This coming from an engineer who designs and builds roads that see 1.5 plus million vehicles a day and has temperature variances from plus 90 in the summer to -20 in the winter, plus the rain they do get as well as the snow, along with ton after ton of calcium chloride spread all over them and then snowplows!
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