#infrastructure-failure

#infrastructure-failure

Viral footage captured the moment that an entire section of a newly constructed bridge in China's Sichuan province collapsed Tuesday, just months after it officially opened. The 758-metre Hongqi Bridge, part of a major national highway linking China's interior with Tibet, gave way after heavy landslides struck the surrounding mountainside, authorities in Maerkang city told Reuters. Videos circulating on social media show the moment the bridge gave way, with dust billowing upward before the road fell hundreds of meters.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the U.S. After sweeping along the Gulf Coast, wreaking havoc in Louisiana and Mississippi, the massive storm ultimately led to 1,392 fatalities, according to the National Hurricane Center. Katrina's destruction centered on the city of New Orleans, where failing levees and floodwalls left most of the city underwater and displaced nearly all of its residents, some of them permanently.