The civil engineering thread running through this is what got me — a Georgia Tech senior watching the World Series, and within a few years you're working on the Golden Gate Bridge itself because the quake rerouted your whole career. There's something fitting about a disaster that exposed infrastructure failures becoming the reason someone spent his life on infrastructure. And you're right that we don't commend catastrophe, but the 1906 comparison is apt: the measure of a city isn't whether the ground moves, it's what gets built after.
Good writing . You just left out one very important clue. Mine and Your Creator. Thanks for an up beat writing.
The civil engineering thread running through this is what got me — a Georgia Tech senior watching the World Series, and within a few years you're working on the Golden Gate Bridge itself because the quake rerouted your whole career. There's something fitting about a disaster that exposed infrastructure failures becoming the reason someone spent his life on infrastructure. And you're right that we don't commend catastrophe, but the 1906 comparison is apt: the measure of a city isn't whether the ground moves, it's what gets built after.
Thank you for the insightful comment.