A mayor of a coastal village of about 3k people in Japan named Fudai insisted on what was considered a wasteful and unnecessarily large flood gate to protect the cove that most of the village was built along but he managed to push the project through despite the opposition and in 1984 after 12 years of work it was finished, 51 feet tall and 673 feet long. He died in 1997 so didn't get see his 'unnecessarily large' flood gate save the village from the 2011 tsunami when villages elsewhere on the coast with more traditionally sized walls were ravaged horribly. Fudai's only casualty was a man who thought it would be a good idea to check on his boat after the earthquake.
yah, once you get over whatever those hills/mountains are called it get's pretty damn hot for a lot of the year. Most of that corridor along the 5 is hot as balls, the only redeeming quality of the drive is pretty much everyone hauls ass so you can make pretty good time
A fucking annoying one. Two weeks ago it was low 90s. Last week it hit 115.
