The Freedom Tower

A blog called California Yankee runs stuff he says you just can’t make up.
“Never in my wildest imagination did think it would take 10 years to rebuild.” He’s talking about Ground Zero.  “Every day the 16-acre site that was once the World Trade Center remains a hole in the ground, is a victory for the terrorists that felled the twin towers and the Islamic extremists who aspire to undo hundreds of years of civilization and reimpose the despotic seventh century caliphate founded on harsh Sharia law.

Engineers working the site are constantly surprised by the sites subterranean geology:
But construction managers encountered twice the amount of bedrock they had anticipated. “We expected 2,000 cubic yards but it was double that,” Mr. Plate said. Furthermore, when the engineers reached a level 70 feet below the street, “we expected schist, but we found a much harder rock — quartz,” Mr. Plate said.

And in one area at Church Street near Liberty, the workers had to excavate down to 120 feet to reach bedrock because engineers encountered an ancient gorge in a former glacial streambed.
I’m no engineer, but I don’t understand why there are a lot of surprises on a site which has already been built on.”