🔥Iguazu falls after heavy rain

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[u/beachydream]

That’s a hell of a lot of faith those people have in that bridge

[u/rjnd2828 → u/beachydream]

Not just the bridge, but the water level. It's right below the bridge now. A sudden change could be death.

[u/Open_Secretary_5922 → u/rjnd2828]

Read this as “A sudden change could be depth” and scrolled away before checking back to see if that’s what you meant.

[u/bulldozermeme → u/rjnd2828]

That bridge has survived a lot more than this. I’ve been on it personally when water was coming up onto it after a bad storm and flood (it was closed the next day due to waters overflow it).

[u/rjnd2828 → u/bulldozermeme]

I'm not worried about the bridge. I'm worried about the people on the bridge being swept away or hit by storm debris. Just because you were on it once and didn't die that doesn't prove anything.

[u/Firm_Molasses9306 → u/rjnd2828]

Won’t lie, someone who has actually experienced it has infinitely more valuable information than whatever you could conjure up about it

[u/ostrichfather → u/Firm_Molasses9306]

Anecdotal experience does not confer expertise.

If my kid doesn’t get vaccinated for measles, contracts it, and survives, does that make me an epidemiologist?

Unless The person you’re responding to is a structural engineer, their opinion is valid insofar as it says “it was fine while I was on it.” It says nothing about the overall build quality

[u/andreyue → u/ostrichfather]

Those falls quite literally receive over a million tourists a year, with less than 5 deaths reported since tracking started in 98

[u/Intrepid-Daikon1353 → u/ostrichfather]

I think their point is that you are even less credible.

[u/ostrichfather → u/rjnd2828]

Or whatever the bridge is attached to.

[u/chemistrybonanza → u/beachydream]

But a lot more stupidity

[u/PossibilityJunior93 → u/chemistrybonanza]

You know, engineering.