Bridges and schools collapse, and soon it could be dams!!!!
"A report warns that traveling through Yosemite National Park's 74-year-old tunnel to see the views of its iconic granite peaks might literally take your breath away.
Carbon monoxide can accumulate to hazardous levels in the busy summer months because aging tunnel exhaust fans don't work properly. Some experts also fear that a disastrous fire could ignite.
Yosemite's Wawona Tunnel is just one of several dozen safety hazards in dire need of repair, according to the report by the Interior Department's inspector general, which found risky conditions at work sites, schools, dams, and four popular national parks run by the Interior Department. Auditors also said they found a pattern of department managers repeatedly putting off fixes for longstanding safety problems that threatened both the public and employees....
Hey, when all the $$$ is being shipped overseas, what do you expect?
The audit, requested by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, found shoddy conditions at 13 schools that investigators spot-checked among 184 the agency runs for American Indian children on tribal reservations. Nearly 60 dams managed by the department were found to be at high risk of giving way or overflowing....
Oh, I hope they aren't the kind that Palestinians have to deal with!!!!
Auditors also determined that Yellowstone National Park water systems are significantly deteriorating and that the now-closed Dinosaur National Monument was "literally falling apart" atop shifting soil in Colorado, putting irreplaceable fossils at risk. At Grand Teton National Park, a headquarters building on an earthquake fault is not built to seismic codes.
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Ah, fuck our national monuments, our parks, and nature; we got WARS to FUND!!!!
