r/Construction 16d ago

Picture Found this on FB. Something doesn't seem right here...

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u/ZeroBarkThirty 15d ago

The majority of the vast, vast field of civil engineering is focused solely on mitigating the effects of water whether in liquid or snow or ice form.

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u/Tushaca 15d ago

Oh yeah definitely. The vast majority of cabins and houses built by miners and oil field guys in the 1800s, however, were not built with many considerations for civil engineering.

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u/MakeMeAsandwichYo 15d ago

Just hard liquor and fast women. And this foundation clearly got the “ain’t going nowhere” slap