Headline news here in Seattle this morning.
Dire States tour arrived in Seattle to news that the dream machine called Big Bertha is stuck 60 feet below Seattle’s downtown. Tunneling is mysterious. Geotechnical challenges lurk in the unseen. Drilling boring samples is expensive. On The Big Dig in Boston (Seattle citizens are calling the Alaskan Way Viaduct Project The Big Dig also) the project claimed to have launched the largest ever geotechnical exploration ever – and more was unknown than known afterwards. Good luck Big Bertha, keep on tunneling…