Margi,
It still happens, Pat rolls her eyes a lot but not as much as she used too. Either I am getting better at explaining, NOT, or she is learning, NOT, or she just doesn't listen, yes!!
Looking at this drawing reminds me of the problem my son is having with Orange County. They want him to build a retaining wall that would retain a mud slide and he lives on a hill that is bedrock sandstone. He has an existing wall that is just stacked blocks that hasn't moved, wiggled or anything else in over 10 years but just continue to stand there in all the rain etc. that has occurred the last week or so.
This drawing was obviously drawn by Government "engineers" who know nothing about setting up a Christmas tree and think they are building a skyscraper!!!
Marsha, I will have to get the requirements for the wall they want and show to Tim so he can have a good chuckle next year when we come south. I hope by then the new wall to reasonable standards will be done then. Tell Tim that the required equations for the wall they want built results in imaginary numbers and we don't know how to do that except in Electrical Engineering.