Man is a very intelligent creature, and after encountering difficulties, he can overcome difficulties with wisdom.
With the continuous progress of society, people have a variety of ways to overcome difficulties, in the past, if there was a mountain in front of the house, it could only be handled by the method of "The Fool Moves the Mountain", but now it can be changed by tunneling and other methods.
If there is a river, it can also be changed by building bridges, and even the mainland can build roads on the sea, allowing people to drive freely on the sea.
The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is a sea highway, and everyone who has been there is lamenting people's wisdom and the development of mainland infrastructure.
With smooth traffic roads, people's lives can be more convenient and economic development can be improved.
Honduras naturally understands that if they want to be rich, they must first build roads, but their infrastructure capacity is still lacking.
In order to build a bridge over the most important Choluteca River, Honduras entrusted the project to Japan.
Because they say that the bridge always breaks when the wind blows, and after please give it to Japan, the bridge is still there when the river is gone, what is the matter?
First, the difficulty of building bridges
Located in Central America, Honduras' main source of economic income is agricultural development.
This economy is very dependent on environmental impacts, including climate change, as well as irrigation of water sources.
Honduras is not short of water, on the contrary, there is a lot of rainfall throughout the year because of its tropical climate and the windward slopes of their high terrain, which makes the amount of water more abundant.
In addition to the rain, the local residents rely on the Choluteca River to help the agricultural economy.
Not only does the river store water, it also passes through several regions of Honduras, helping people everywhere to provide irrigation water.
Therefore, this river is also a very important place in Honduras, it is located at the junction of the border between Honduras and Nicaragua.
It's just that a river makes it impossible for people on both sides to communicate normally, or even to travel normally.
If there is a bridge on the river, communication between residents on both sides of the river will be more time-saving and labor-saving.
As the saying goes, it is impossible for a living person to be suffocated by urine, and the Honduran government has also tried to build a bridge over the Choluteca River.
In order to help people live normally and promote economic circulation, Honduras has built rope bridges, plank bridges, suspension bridges and stone bridges over the Choluteca River.
When the bridge is built, the whole city will work with half the effort, people can carry out daily life, and economic trade can be promoted.
It's just that the people of Honduras want to build the bridge, why don't they build it themselves, but entrust it to a Japanese company?
After all, building your own bridges can not only improve the country's ability to build it, save the economy, and provide jobs for the people of Honduras.
In fact, the reason is simple, that is, the local people have more than enough energy, they also want to build their own bridge, but each time it ends in failure.
The local triad in Honduras is rampant, the social atmosphere is extremely unstable, and in the case of social unrest, the local industry and manufacturing industry are also struggling.
Every time Honduras comes into view, violence and danger are associated with violence and danger, and there are numerous incidents of trafficking in women and children.
Such a chaotic capital of violence naturally makes it difficult to promote the development of all walks of life, and in addition to the violent factor, there are also the most difficult climatic factors.
Because Honduras is close to the equator, thunderstorms are common here, and it is a coastal city that is often hit by tsunamis and hurricanes.
The government has repeatedly built bridges over the Choluteca River, but they have been repeatedly damaged by torrential rains without a trace.
Looking at the destroyed bridge, the government can only continue to rebuild, and even the Joluteca Bridge built by the United States has not been able to withstand the baptism of wind and rain.
In the 30s of the last century, an American built this suspension bridge here in order to communicate the economy between the two sides of the strait.
The whole is fixed with several tall pillars, similar in shape to the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States, after the bridge was built, the local people relied on this bridge for a long time.
Unfortunately, the bridge only lasted more than 50 years and collapsed again, and the Honduran government set its sights on Japan.
In 1996, the Honduran government stopped considering funding for the bridge because they no longer wanted to worry about it, they wanted to build a strong bridge that could be built once and for all.
To this end, Honduras asked the world for tenders, hoping to find a competent engineering team, who specifically wrote about the local climate characteristics and possible problems after the bridge was built.
In the end, a Japanese company won the favor of the Honduran government because it vowed to guarantee that the quality of the bridges they built would be fine.
They also came to the field to investigate, which also made the Honduran government more reassuring, plus Japan's infrastructure capacity at that time was obvious to all, they were also known as the infrastructure maniacs of that era.
The Honduran government believes that although it will be more expensive to hire a Japanese team to build the bridge than to build it yourself, it can save a lot of money if it does not need to be repaired later.
So the only thing they asked the Japanese company was whether it could withstand a hurricane.
After receiving an affirmative answer, the two sides reached a cooperation, and the Japanese company began the project with great vigor. So can bridges built in Japan withstand hurricanes?
Second, the hurricane is coming
In order to live up to the trust of the Honduran government, Japan decided to build the longest bridge ever built in Honduras here.
The bridge they designed is 484 meters long and is an arch bridge made of reinforced concrete, which has a more modern shape.
Both the length of the bridge and the design plan are deeply liked by the people of Honduras, and everyone hopes that the bridge can be completed as soon as possible.
The Honduran government has done its best to assist the Japanese company in its construction, and even good preferential policies are not stingy to give the Japanese company a good policy, just so that this star project can be completed as soon as possible.
Two years later, Japan announced the completion of the bridge across the river, and the Honduran government was very satisfied with the bridge.
Because the bridge is like the Japanese design drawings, it uses the latest reinforced concrete, and the whole is more aesthetically pleasing than the rope bridge.
Japanese companies have repeatedly assured that the bridge has undergone a lot of experiments and is sure that it can withstand hurricanes, which has also given the Honduran government high hopes for the bridge.
In order to allow the people to see the efforts of the government and see the star bridge, when the bridge was completed, the city of Choluteca, Honduras, also held a large ribbon-cutting ceremony for traffic.
The first to board the bridge was a car carrying local officials, and the popularity of the bridge has remained high because of the rush of major media reports.
Many people in Honduras wanted to see the bridge, but what they didn't expect was that the bridge didn't play its role.
Not long after the bridge was built, a hurricane swept through Honduras, and the disaster caused by this hurricane is still very tragic, and the name of this hurricane is Mickey.
Mitch gathered in the Atlantic Ocean and swept through Central America in a very rapid manner, with Honduras, as a coastal city, becoming the main victim.
Mitch is traveling at 290 km/h, and most of the places it passes have collapsed, many buildings in Honduras have been invaded, and people have lost their homes.
According to relevant statistics, the number of homeless people reached more than 2.7 million at that time, 11,000 people lost their lives under the baptism of the hurricane, and 11,000 yuan disappeared.
The hurricane stayed for a very long time, the economic damage was huge, and many infrastructure in the city was destroyed, which required financial support for follow-up repairs.
Honduras' years of gains have been wiped out, and even more worrying is whether the bridge, which just cost $13 million, will survive such a severe hurricane cleansing.
It is undeniable that the Japanese team is indeed very technical, and the bridge has survived Mickey's cleaning, except that there is no river underneath.
Many people ridicule that the bridge is still there, but the river has run, what is going on?
Because Mitch brought heavy rainfall to Honduras, the excess rain directly led to flooding, which washed away many urban infrastructures and damaged even Honduran roads.
In addition, the Choluteca River was seriously damaged, because its original channel was buried directly because of the mud covered by floods.
In other words, the hurricane diverted the entire river to a few hundred meters away from the new bridge.
There was no water under the entire bridge, and the bridge, although intact during the storm, became a waste bridge.
Some people feel that this project was not played by Japan, but it was really played by natural storms.
The bridge they built at great expense has become a joke seen by the world, and how should the Honduran government put an end to this matter?
Third, where to go
Because Honduras was badly affected, they all said that the financial funds should be invested in the construction of infrastructure in other cities.
And they don't want to build a new bridge, which would be labor-intensive and expensive to dismantle.
When people heard that the hurricane did not destroy the bridge, but destroyed the river, people became more curious about the bridge.
Many people come to see this bridge standing on the side of the Choluteca River, and the Honduran government has allowed this bridge to become a special scenery of Honduras.
The bridge, which was originally planned to boost the economy, ended up being an ornamental bridge.
At present, Honduras does not have any plans to build a bridge, and the bridge built by Japan is to help Honduras develop a tourism economy, which has become a landmark building in Honduras and a cultural landscape that witnessed the disaster.
After this incident, the Honduran government should also be aware of one thing, and that is the protection of the environment.
According to Chinese sinology, we must be in awe of nature's gifts.
The ability of the most important rivers in Honduras to change course during hurricanes actually has a certain human factor.
Because of the local damage to water and soil, it has led to a series of problems caused by flash floods, which is a reminder that people around the world must protect the environment, otherwise they will encounter environmental backlash.
It is not entirely true that Honduras is responsible for the current situation, but it is actually related to Japanese companies.
Although the quality of the bridges built by Japanese companies is passable, they ignore the peculiarities of Honduras, so there are some problems with the bridges they design.
Because there were no embankments on both sides of the Ciolutka River in Honduras, Japan did not consider this problem, so that the bridge was not washed away, but the river was washed away.
The mainland had such foresight when building bridges, and when the mainland built the Yellow River bridge, it had the practice of firmly damming the embankments on both sides.
This is also the reason why the mainland was able to replace Japan as an infrastructure maniac, that is, the mainland can better adapt measures to local conditions.
epilogue
Although the Choluteca Bridge is still alive today, it has no basic properties, and the bridge not only causes people to go to watch, but also compares the unpredictability of some things.
In order not to make the bridge completely ineffective, Honduras chose to connect the bridge to the road network, so that it could function as a means of transportation.
As for Honduras' development, it is not enough to build bridges, the most important thing is to change the domestic instability and adjust the domestic production and economic structure.
Today, in an industrial-dominated society, Honduras is still a predominantly agricultural country because of its gangsters.
And the fact that agricultural cultivation even includes drugs shows the level of chaos in the area.
Fortunately, the Honduran government is currently carrying out a series of interventions, and we also expect the country to develop better.
Who do you think was played with the construction of this bridge?