I wonder how many other young women are sitting in their New York apartment on a beautiful fall Friday night after a long work week at the office writing a grant for the future use of a random vacant grain elevator in the Midwest? Probably none. I even hope there are none because it's feeling a touch sad and nerdy at this particular moment. I can always be consoled by the fact that at any time there are people being more nerdy than myself all over New York City.
In order to keep myself jazzed up and pushing forward on what seems like an impossible grant deadline, I surf the web. Tonight I found the image above: the DeBruce Grain Elevator in Haysville, Kansas. This 2,717 feet long cement structure is listed as the largest grain elevator in the world. In 1998, an explosion at the facility killed seven people, and heavily damaged the structure. The elevator is composed of 246 individual 30 foot by 120 foot tall connected concrete tanks in three parallel rows, all under a single headworks. The structure had a capacity of over 20 million bushels of wheat, enough to supply all the bread consumed in America in a six week period. The facility is owned by DeBruce Grain, Inc., which was fined $685,000 for the explosion. Information from the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
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