Posted on 05/01/2007 5:57:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Nonsense!
Lesson One: Fire melts steel.
(Got that, Rosie?)
March 2004: There was a bridge collapse very similar on I-95 in Connecticut. Tanker truck, fire, bridge collapse.
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3161.html
The US needs stricter laws concerning CDL drivers and Hazmat endorsements. I have a CDL and over 10 years i have hired many drivers, offhand about 1/4th have some criminal history or drug problems.
But more importantly its newly arrived foreigners wanting to drive tankers, school busses and long haul rigs. There was recent news even of a tour bus operation that was a front for drug smuggling, anything in commercial vehicles is an opening for illegal activities more so now than years past.
Not a jetliner but a single truck practically shut down or at least bottlenecked millions, who is to say they are not or could be herded into another area just for a preplanned attack? like detonatong a device on Bart under the bay?
Any incident like this becomes another page of a terrorists teaching manual.
in 1994 here on Long Island (NY), a doctor, who use to like to drive the HOV lane alone but with his large dog in the passenger seat, saw a cop up ahead and cut across several lanes to get out of the carpool lane. he drove right into a gasoline tanker which burst into flames under the overpass for the Sagtikos parkway. the doctor and dog died. the tanker driver got out in time. the overpass was so warped as to have to be condemned and rebuilt. the north bound overpass (separate) was divided for a short time for both directions untill an temporary span could be erected. It took a good 9 months or more before the section of span was completely rebuilt.
Well, I'm sure this is going to come as a huge surprise to one of our celebrity structural engineers, Ms. Rosie O'Donnell.
(Got that, Rosie?)”
The timing is suspicious. Just when when the Rosies of the world are talking up the fire can’t melt steel idea; what happens?
Has to be a Haliburton, Bush/Cheney, Reagan/Bush, Republican capitalist plot to throw the attention away from their 911 plot.
(For you liberals out there, what I just wrote was kooky satire, but many of your type actually believe stuff like that)
Of course here in Connectcut, we have bridges that just fall apart all by themselves - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianus_River_Bridge
No she-ite.....I wonder why we've not heard Rosie 'O Blob comment about this????
I’m going from memory here, but in the 1970’s when I was growing up in the Detroit Metro area, there was a rash of tanker fires on Detroit’s expressways. In Detroit, the expressways are built in a series of concrete lined trenches instead of being elevated.
Finally Detroit banned all hazardous cargo from those stretches of expressway because of all the expensive damage to the concrete retaining walls and overpasses.
I'm stuned...
Same on Rt 95 in Philly a few years back.
Wandered a mile through darkened streets of Oakland, and lived! That, in itself, is amazing.
“After the crash, Mosqueda, 51, wandered more than a mile through darkened streets in Oakland with second-degree burns to a gas station and hailed a cab to take him to the emergency room, according to police and the taxi driver.”
Does anyone think this sounds strange? If I was the driver I would have waited for EMS. Why would you leave the scene...unless he was in shock? Does this all seem rather odd?
They don’t use units, and this comparison is meaningless. (unless perhaps if converted to degrees Kelvin.)
Just say “by comparison, the average home oven has a maximum temperature of 550F.” Or, “which is really, really hot.” Or, “steel melts at xxx F”?
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