I've said before that all geotechnical engineers are gone, replaced by everybody and their dog who think they can do it. The city and province have endless geotechnical disasters, but it's all charged to the taxpayer.
In the neighbourhood, we have a complex street corner with steep hills. There has been a small section up the hill that is continuously sinking. I've written the city a few times saying you have to look at that. They just keep filling it up, and in the fall there was a major resurfacing. No trace of it now.
Last week the water from that decided to pop up 30m down the hill, perhaps because of the cold. They've had 20 workers and 10 trucks at that corner for a week now. They've dug holes all over the place. When I said hello this morning, one of young guys blurted out they can't find it.
Do you think I would tell them to look 30m up the hill? Nope. The hero of geotechnical engineering could just rub soil between his fingers, and tell you everything about it. Not happening in this world.
ps after the dog walk, I have my morning meditation/snooze. I chant "Let the stupidity flow over me like a tropical breeze." And I thing of my very boring fantasy novels, and python code.
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