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Wall Collapses on NYC Parkway, HHudson Highway 051205
MSNBC | 05/12/05 | MSNBC

Posted on 05/12/2005 1:42:59 PM PDT by GRRRRR

Part of a retaining wall has collapsed over the NYC Parkway, the 'Henry Hudson Highway'?

Could be a nasty commute home. No evidence of terrorism.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: henryhudsonhighway; nyc; nycparkway
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To: Normal4me
Nah, fuggitaboutit. It will last forever...

It ain't goin' nowhere.

61 posted on 05/12/2005 2:34:30 PM PDT by syriacus (Weird George Felos repeatedly flicked his tongue out his gaping mouth when lying to the press 3/31)
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To: Dog; GRRRRR
Looks like a mudslide.

Looks like the Pacific Coast Highway between Santa Monica and Malibu after a rainstorm.

62 posted on 05/12/2005 2:34:34 PM PDT by Wolfstar (U.S.M.C. -- when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed over night)
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To: GRRRRR

Quote "No evidence of terrorism"

I hope that was a joke! :) lol I was just telling someone that I bet Fox News would be saying "terrorism has not been ruled out" within the hour. :P

lol


63 posted on 05/12/2005 2:37:37 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: Wolfstar

FoxNews now showing some video of firemen climbing around the trees. Showing the front end of a small red car caught by the slide, may be another car a little deeper into the trees that done slud...


64 posted on 05/12/2005 2:38:00 PM PDT by GRRRRR (Hillary is the most dangerous person in America and the RINO's haven't a clue...)
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To: GRRRRR

Wow, sure hope no one's underneath all that!
I've driven that route countless times when I live in the east.... this is going to be nasty for the N-S traffic if they can't get the H. Hudson re-opened soon.

How long before Hillary and little Chuckie Schumer start shrieking to try to blame Rs for the disaster????

And they'll be calling for federal funding, even though it's a state highway.... Rte. 9, I believe.


65 posted on 05/12/2005 2:40:01 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: Clemenza
Do you remember when the bridge collapsed on the West Side Highway, I believe in the 1960s?

Just vaguely. On December 16, 1973, in the most ironic of circumstances, a cement truck that was traveling to make repairs on the West Side Highway caused a 60-foot section of the northbound roadway to collapse at Gansevoort Street.

66 posted on 05/12/2005 2:40:02 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: GRRRRR

an "eyewitness is saying some debris fell and authorities were called and that the road may have been closed when the major debris came down.

Perhaps no one is buried.


67 posted on 05/12/2005 2:40:24 PM PDT by alisasny (We get 4 more years, you get OBAMA...: ))
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To: neverdem

Put my in your NY ping list.


68 posted on 05/12/2005 2:41:39 PM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: rmlew; All
3. Anyone trying to go to or from Riverdale is screwed.

Take the 1 or the 9 to Van Cortlandt Park and Broadway, and then the bus up hill. I believe Metro North's Hudson Line (which stops at Spuyten Duyvill), should still be operating, unless anyone else here has any news.

69 posted on 05/12/2005 2:45:43 PM PDT by Clemenza (Will somebody PLEASE stop that hammering!)
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To: GRRRRR

Wow! Just like we get every rainy season here in Cali!


70 posted on 05/12/2005 2:45:55 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: GRRRRR

Nasty, nasty. I've driven that road and admired those retaining walls.


71 posted on 05/12/2005 2:49:45 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Normal4me

LOL! ["And trow a few of dem used `heaters' in dere before ya cover it over!"]


72 posted on 05/12/2005 2:49:49 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: neverdem

That collapse brought about the closure and eventual demolition of the steel, elevated portion of the West Side H'wy.


73 posted on 05/12/2005 2:53:47 PM PDT by Roccus (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: GRRRRR
No evidence of terrorism.

We were in NYC yesterday, and wondered why the police presence was so heavy. At the time, I hadn't heard about the errant plane over the DC airspace. I guess they wasnted to be on hand in case something happened in the city.

Gonna be a L-O-N-G commute home for the folks on that side of the Hudson Parkway.

74 posted on 05/12/2005 3:02:17 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Jhensy

Looks like an ache today.


75 posted on 05/12/2005 3:02:53 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (...stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks.-K.Parker)
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To: Palladin
They'll probably close it for a coupla months

Your an optimist.

My guess, it'll take close to a year, maybe more.

76 posted on 05/12/2005 3:16:31 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Palladin

Agreed, I have a much smaller retaining wall in my yard that was installed by someone that did not know what they were doing, they backfilled it with clay, the pressure is causing it to buckle.


77 posted on 05/12/2005 3:16:34 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Thinkin' Gal

No idea..I'm on the other side of the country.


78 posted on 05/12/2005 3:17:16 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: GRRRRR

Fox reported that the Police were at the scene before the dirt wall came down and had stopped traffic before the slide.
They said only parked cars were under the debris.


79 posted on 05/12/2005 3:22:22 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." AYN RAND)
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To: neverdem

hey thanks , I was listening as this unfolded ,...brought my daughter downtown to 13th St for language lesson , we live at West End Ave & 98th and everything is just normal,LOL, maybe SNAFU


80 posted on 05/12/2005 3:32:13 PM PDT by Dad yer funny
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