This has been a thing for about a week now, but it looks like it may be a bigger deal than I had at first assumed.
Bertha, the large machine digging the multi-billion dollar tunnel under Downtown Seattle, has hit an “obstacle”.
What kind of “obstacle”?
Well, nobody knows. At least not yet.
This is a pretty big deal, because Bertha cannot just back out of the hole. If the “obstacle” cannot be cleared, the machine just gets abandoned underground indefinitely, or it must be disassembled and brought out in pieces.
Now look, I’ve been a huge opponent
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