Posted on 08/01/2007 4:28:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The schoolbus was right next to the burning truck, which Shep pointed out numerous times. Shep is a dufus.
of course they are overloaded....it is SOP
50 cars in the river
20-30 workers on the bridge at the time.
Im guessing the resurfacing work vribrations caused a damaged failing critical steel connections near one of the river pylons. The entire bridge did not unzip, it collapsed in almost one piece. Connection failure.
Thanks.
That plus union labor, maybe??
Right you are. Truck piled into the bridge and caught fire, not another truck as I mis-spoke.
50 cars in the river and there were 30-40 workers on the bridge. Just horrible
1967....Hey that's not old.
Just Damn.. I was just on that bridge 2weeks age
Bridge built in 1967,
single span?,
64 ft above the water.
As I recall, that story turned out to be two years old.
They’re gonna have to work fast. There’s only a couple more hours of good daylight left. Twilight will make everything a little harder.
Oh, this is horrible.. Please God save as many as you can...
What a scary situation. Prayers for those who are trapped in the collapse.
May 09, 2007: The Wall Street Journal “U.S. Infrastructure Found to Be in Disrepair”
Fox News just reported that traffic was at a standstill when the bridge collapsed with traffic bumper to bumper.
Here’s my guess at what happened. At rush hour with traffic stopped, the density of cars was far greater than the bridge could support. Probably was designed for something like that but with the accumulated metal fatigue and corrosion over the years, a structural member gave way and the rest collapsed like dominos. Just my guess.
I was on it a week ago - going north on 35W over to Highway 36.
Scary.
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