The Choluteca Bridge - a lesson



The Choluteca Bridge is situated in the city of Honduras, in Central America on the river Choluteca. Honduras city is the worst affected city by strong storms and hurricanes. 

The Choluteca Bridge was built in 1998 in four years by a Japanese firm and opened for public use in the same year. It was a 484 meter long and very strong & marvelous bridge. It was a great work of modern-day design and engineering. It was the longest and strongest bridge of that time.

In October 1998, Hurricane Mitch destroyed Honduras city. The whole Honduras city is completely submerged in water. There was 4 days continuous raining and the city received as much as water in six months in a normal year. 

All the bridges and roads have been washed away in water, except one, the Choluteca bridge. The Choulteca bridge was standing tall, he had proved that how much strong the bridge was built.
 
But there was a problem, even though the Choluteca bridge was intact at his place, the river beneath it had changed its course(path). Now the river flowing beside the Choulteca bridge instead of under it. What a surprise. What is this?
 
So, now the Choulteca bridge at all is of no use.
 
Now you can understand the above drawings very clearly which is showing exactly what happened after Hurricane Mitch. For real pictures, you should search "The Choluteca Bridge"  images.
 
Why at all after 22 years we are discussing The Choluteca Bridge?
 
We can learn many things from The Choulteca bridge. This is the perfect time to visualize it.

As we all can see the world is changing very rapidly. How fast we are ready to adopt this change?
 
Rather than only focusing on the best solution for a problem today, we have to also think about what if that problem does not exist at all tomorrow, as happened in the case of "The Choulteca bridge".
 
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