Now, as you heard, the engineers don't know if this is a one in 25 year flood, or a one in 100 year flood - or something in-between.
Well, how about, one in 18 years? Our archive shows that the last time the bridge washed away was on June 21, 2002 - and, almost exactly eighteen years later, the approach washed away on Thursday 18th June, 2020.
After that epic washout, a completely new, 200 foot bridge was installed in September, 2003. It was designed and built here in Belize at a cost of 2.4 million dollars, and, at the time they said, it was designed to last a century. The quote from the then engineer was that it was "designed to be above the highest recorded flood level..."
And the bridge does remain intact, and the eastern approach is what was undermined in Thursday's floods.
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