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Engineering Catastrophes will profile, investigate, analyze, and find solutions for the world's most unbelievable engineering gaffes. From the hilarious to the mind-boggling, from the deadly to the bank-busting, this series showcases some of the most outrageous structural disasters and the genius resolutions to get things back on track. Blunders explored this season include a waterfront building in England that has created a wind tunnel so strong, pedestrians have been blown over; the Carrier Dome in snowy Syracuse that has a soft top roof requiring workers to climb atop with hot water hoses to prevent collapse every time snow falls; a Brazilian highway that is so close to tall buildings that neighborhood residents are concerned about hearing loss.
Twenty people are killed in Fremont, Nebraska, when the Pathfinder Hotel explodes on the cold Saturday morning of January 10, 1976. An investigation into the tragic gas leak leads underground to where gas lines supply this iconic building in America's heartland.
A sinkhole engulfs a Bronx residential street, growing so large that it swallows a van. Experts explain how heavy rain and old infrastructure caused this terrifying calamity.
Tragedy struck Puerto Rico in November 1996 when a propane gas explosion collapsed a six-story tower with the popular Humberto Vidal shoe store on the first floor. The disaster killed 33 people and wounded more than 80 others.
An explosion at the Napp Technologies chemical/pharmaceutical factory in Lodi, New Jersey, kills five workers and unleashes a torrent of black smoke into the morning sky on April 21, 1995. An investigation reveals how a small amount of water led to this fatal manufacturing catastrophe.
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