He said the city had been destroyed by the "apocalyptic" storm, with bridges felled by gushing, muddy rivers and water levels reaching 10ft (3m) high in some places.
But the hazards of this arrangement were laid bare during Tropical Storm Irene, as flooding turned Victorian homes to kindling, collapsed cement bridges, felled woods and splattered once-verdant settings with mud and debris.
Once these men had crossed the Turkey Island Bridge, they destroyed the bridge and felled trees over it to stymie any army in pursuit, leaving the James River between the Union and Confederate armies.
Of a different order is "The Ball Balll in a Landscape)" of 1978, in which a rugged horizontal structure, like a felled bridge, descends in a slight arc from a supporting end post.
Instead, it was probably simple neglect that felled the bridge.
Security video from the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge where Nemtsov was felled by four gunshots to the head and torso was aired on TVC, a Moscow television network.
Among their myriad uses, America's timberlands were felled for railway carriages, bridges and track ties.
Gales hit many parts of the UK, including Scotland, where strong winds felled a lorry on the Clackmannanshire Bridge over the Firth of Forth.
Kościuszko designed an engineer's solution: his men felled trees, dammed streams, and destroyed bridges and causeways.
On Feb. 27, 2015, Nemtsov was walking across a heavily guarded bridge within steps of the Kremlin when he was felled by a hail of bullets.
In the 19th century, felled trees shooting down the river in floods brought down two of the bridge's massive sandstone arches.
