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Structural Engineering Is Everywhere


Breaking news, displacing today’s scheduled blog post: it snowed in New York yesterday. Heavy, wet snow, maybe three inches accumulation in Manhattan before the rain started. Despite the small total, there were a surprising number of downed trees. The picture above, taken before most of the snow fell, shows why: we haven’t got deep enough into fall yet for the trees to have shed all their leaves, so the snow build-up on the branches was out of proportion to the build-up on the ground.

Putting aside overthinking the engineering of weather, I stood and watched the snow for a few minutes.

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