Posted on 05/24/2013 12:18:57 AM PDT by djf
How does one sit on top of a vehicle "submerged" in 18 feet of water?
I’m in unincorporated Pierce county, well east of Tacoma, and there are many farmers and livestock owners around.
Pretty conservative here.
Face it, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Seattle run the state. And if they can’t honestly win an election, they have ZERO trepidation about outright STEALING it!
and obama and the dems will blame republicans.
even though they aren’t in power in washington state.
It is after 1am and I am tired. the federal government wasn’t involved in the highway system till after June 29, 1956 so it was probably a state thing. I am to tired to find out who that was so I choose harry. He is a democrat.
That area - Seattle and even Bellevue - is worse than NYC. In the latter case, people for the most part believe in God and acknowledge right and wrong even if they don't live it, but the Pacific Northwest's urban and suburban areas lie covered with a cloud of active hostility to anything good and right. It's a different, more ominous, more evil form of leftist ideology.
The bridge is in the water. The roadway surface of the bridge ended up just below the surface of the water.
The pictures at the link below show it...click on the pictures for larger view [Getty Images cannot be posted here].
Also please notice that the places where the bridge steel is bent or ripped apart apparently were already marked with orange paint before the collapse [to the left of the cars and in the upper left corner].
http://eotmblog.com/2013/05/i-5-bridge-collapses-in-skagit-river/
Yeah, but Ike was inspired by the German Autobahn, so it’s uhh... that guy’s fault.
Looks like rust, not paint, to me.
Ferrous nice, Bender2.
Thanks. Hard to believe that’s an interstate bridge. Looks like potential trout water, though.
have 15 foot legs
Surprisingly, trout in the Washington rivers west of the cascades are somewhat rare.
The young (and the adult) salmon are ravenous!
The steelhead too will devour young trout.
I did, though, get a VERY nice about 14 inch rainbow in the White river one year.
Bush’s fault.
Lots of salmon in there at the right time of year too. I live a mile from this bridge on this river. I drove over AND under that bridge today. Didn’t hear it happen, someone texted me about an hour later. Glad no one was killed but traffic is gonna be hell around here for 3 years I betcha.
I live in Burlington 1 mile from the bridge and I am amazed that they are routing traffic over the 536 bridge which is a much older draw bridge through downtown Mt. Vernon. Not going to be fun to go anywhere around here for quite some time.
Whoa that’s bad.
That doesn’t look like a 50 foot drop to the water to me. 30 feet tops.
As you might expect, this was on the local news all evening. And they were calling it a 20 or 30 foot drop.
Still - that’s one hell of a pothole, eh?
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