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Text by Renee Skelton

Photographs by Reuters NewMedia Inc./Corbis (collapsed highway); Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters NewMedia Inc. (highway crack); Bettmann/Corbis (cars); AP/World Wide (boats, store, track)

Map by Martin Walz

Video courtesy National Geographic Television