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To: Danette

Excellent pics... thanks for your efforts.


1,751 posted on 08/02/2007 3:42:47 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: johnny7

Video of ‘Galloping Gertie’

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/meetsusp.html#clips

On November 7, 1940, only four months after it opened, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a wind of 42 mph—even though the structure was designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph.


1,759 posted on 08/02/2007 4:04:17 AM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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