Must have just happened, I think. Not sure how many people dead or injured. Picture at link.
1 posted on
08/14/2018 4:12:54 AM PDT by
PghBaldy
To: PghBaldy
talian television showed images of the collapsed bridge, which was built on the A10 toll motorway in the 1960s. Restructuring work on the bridge was carried out in 2016.
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Hmm.
2 posted on
08/14/2018 4:16:22 AM PDT by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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3 posted on
08/14/2018 4:18:50 AM PDT by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: PghBaldy
Fox just showed the video....this was no little thing....most of the bridge is gone....incredible
4 posted on
08/14/2018 4:19:15 AM PDT by
Dog
(..."I'm just a cook....")
To: PghBaldy
The pictures are helpful.
Close up of collapsed section:
This is the best view of the collapsed section:
This is the bridge intact. The part that collapsed is the section to the left-- see the small building NEXT TO the collapsed section in the first picture as reference:
5 posted on
08/14/2018 4:20:58 AM PDT by
freedumb2003
("Trump is such a liar. He said we'd be tired from all this winning" (/dfwgator 7/27/18))
To: PghBaldy
It looks like the two main pillars (struts?) are gone. How the heck did that happen? How could that happen?
6 posted on
08/14/2018 4:28:43 AM PDT by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: PghBaldy
Western Civilization is falling apart ...
7 posted on
08/14/2018 4:29:25 AM PDT by
11th_VA
(Only MS-13 and Democrats want ICE Abolished)
To: PghBaldy
‘The missing section is dozens of metres in length.
The bridge has been closed to traffic.’
Gee pretty obvious the bridge is closed to traffic for a long long time.
8 posted on
08/14/2018 4:30:15 AM PDT by
robowombat
(Orthodox)
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10 posted on
08/14/2018 4:36:50 AM PDT by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
Probably over the next few hours we’ll start seeing videos. You have to think that for something that big, SOMEBODY would have whipped out his cell phone and started recording.
15 posted on
08/14/2018 4:41:17 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
To: PghBaldy
It doesn’t look like the incident involved any shots. Looks like bad engineering.
35 posted on
08/14/2018 5:12:47 AM PDT by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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36 posted on
08/14/2018 5:13:23 AM PDT by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
40 posted on
08/14/2018 5:17:01 AM PDT by
EdnaMode
To: PghBaldy
The Morandi Bridge was inaugurated in 1967. It is 90 yards high, just over three-quarters of a mile long, with the longest section between supports measuring 200 yards. Restructuring work was carried out in 2016.
To: PghBaldy
It wouldn’t be surprising if this was done along with a message sent to Italy’s govt: “Take the muslim refugees as you have been told to do or more infrastructure will fall. Refugees or death & destruction. Your choice.” Either way, they’re going down....unless they rise up and fight these bassturds with everything they got.
50 posted on
08/14/2018 5:45:36 AM PDT by
lgjhn23
(It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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51 posted on
08/14/2018 5:45:49 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: PghBaldy
ROME (Reuters) - A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was likely to be “an immense tragedy”.
58 posted on
08/14/2018 6:23:28 AM PDT by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: PghBaldy
Massive corruption or incompetence the construction of the bridge
67 posted on
08/14/2018 9:26:37 AM PDT by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: PghBaldy
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Sounds like a compression failure of a PCC slab.
Rare, but it happens sometimes when excessive rebar is used in the design.
This is why engineers need to be tested thoroughly in the licensing process.
69 posted on
08/14/2018 9:38:28 AM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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74 posted on
08/14/2018 12:30:24 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: PghBaldy
The flashes look to me like flashes you would see when a building is being razed with explosives. I am not buying the lightning strike story.
76 posted on
08/14/2018 12:48:45 PM PDT by
4yearlurker
("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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