Bridge "out here in the west" undergoing catastrophic autodisassembly:
Posted on 07/01/2002 6:40:15 AM PDT by small_l_libertarian
Bridge "out here in the west" undergoing catastrophic autodisassembly:
If anyone wonders why you can see through the road bed on suspension bridges (all that metal grating in the road open to the air and sea) this is the reason: In 1942, one was built here in Washington (the first Tacoma Narrows) that didn't have those features. The road bed became the equivalent of a really big, heavy, sail in the first big wind storm to come by. The results are before your eyes. And you thought government projects only got screwed up these days?
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