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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (35724)7/19/2005 4:57:24 PM
From: mirajeRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
I seriously doubt you could hurt the Hoover dam at all by exploding even a large bomb on it. It would probably damage the road but the explosion would disperse into the air almost immediately..

You're right, a bomb blast on top of the dam wouldn't hardly cause a dent. It's hard to imagine exactly how massive that structure is..

usbr.gov

..There are 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete in the dam, powerplant and appurtenant works. This much concrete would build a monument 100 feet square and 2-1/2 miles high; would rise higher than the Empire State Building (which is 1,250 feet) if placed on an ordinary city block; or would pave a standard highway 16 feet wide, from San Francisco to New York City..

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I travel over Hoover Dam about once a month or so and, IMO, the security there amounts to a bit of overkill. There are checkpoints before both entrances and quite a bit of police presence on the dam itself. Also, commercial traffic is banned and must divert down to Laughlin.

Construction on the new bypass and bridge (slightly downstream from the dam) will be complete in a few years and knock off at least a half hour or so of commute time from Northern AZ to Las Vegas. Lots of speculators are buying relatively cheap acreage and planning developments in AZ, just south of the dam, in anticipation of the bypass being completed.

-JB
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