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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Rebecca Dellagloria, Trenton Dan
Oct. 30--Many civil engineers are stunned that an estimated 15,000 utility poles in South Florida collapsed or were seriously damaged during Hurricane Wilma's relatively modest winds.
Some poles may not have been sunk far enough into the ground, others may have deteriorated with age, engineers think. In either case, regular inspections should have exposed those vulnerabilities, experts agreed.
"These numbers are incredible, I've never heard of that many poles coming down," said Fouad H. Fouad, an engineering professor at the University of Alabama and a...
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