Regulators Examining Insurers’ Cyber Security Readiness
Immigrant Driver’s Licenses Signed in Colorado
E&O Insights: Why Personal Umbrellas Generate Claims
10 Things to Know About Entertainment, Sports & Special Events
Washington Public Employee Fired Over Fruit Pie Suing City
4 Strategies to Make Producer Lifecycle Management a Priority
Motorcycle Injuries Rise After Helmet Laws Weakened: Study
Making the Most of Mediation, Part 2Free Newsletters
Sign up to receive insurance news alerts!Most Popular
Current Issue
Editors and Contributors
-
Andrea WellsAgency Compensation Playbook: 2013 Agency Salary Survey -
Andrew G. SimpsonHow Process Improvement Drives Agency Profitability -
Stephanie JonesThe Acquisition Cycle -
Don JerglerIndustry Predictions -
Chris BurandReasonable Compensation -
Andrea WellsPersonal Lines: How Technology is Changing the Way Agents Do Business
At the risk of exposing my geographic ignorance, how many large bodies of water are in Iowa to have over 5,000 bridges? It’s flat and land-locked. They grow corn there. How dangerous can a bridge over a creek be?
ummm… you do realize that Iowa’s eastern and western borders are defined by two of the largest rivers in the country, don’t you?
OK…..that would command several large bridges, but where are the majority of the 5,153 bridges in need of repair?
Where you have big rivers, you have smaller rivers feeding into them. Virtually every city or town of significant size in Iowa is on a river forming a tributary of either the Mississippi or the Missouri rivers. You got rivers, you need bridges to get over them.
Take a look at the map here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:National-atlas-iowa.png
Also, the article says that the state has 5000 or so bridges, and 21% (600 or so) of them are in need of repair.
Just wondering…maybe Clint Eastwood could come back and make repairs?!
They just need a truckload of Gorilla Glue