BREAKING: I-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River; vehicles, people in water | Q13 FOX News
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Damn, hope everyone's alright.
Fuuu, How do I get to Coopkill's house now!!
Thats wild, they gave it a 54 our of 100 2 years ago..... and they just leave it? Awesome.
Riverside bridge, about a mile east :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by R/T93
But it sounds like an oversize load hit the (poorly rated) bridge, causing the collapse?
That's crazy :eek: I've traveled that bridge a few times in the past. Looks a lot different under water.
Hope everyone is OK. Another picture I found online...
http://i.imgur.com/kHkkOAv.jpg
From what I read this morning it only sounds like 2 cars and 3 people went in. Everyone survived and is in stable condition.
Could have been much worse.
infrastructure? what's that? why the fuck would we spend money on infrastructure?
It was an old bridge that had a support beam knocked out of it. You knock out a critical piece because of negligence and these things can happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m...rcdetector.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by onebadmollafolla
I understood you were being sarcastic, thanks. You believe money should be spent on infrastructure. At the time, it was. Then some knob knocked out a critical piece of it.
Canadian truck, took it out. The one lady is still in the hospital with internal bleeding, but stable. Not heard what the cat scan came up with yet.
Some local asshat reported being an eyewitness to a shady guy under the bridge kneeling, and praying, then stood up to snap photos just before the collapse. Telling all of this to a local reporter, which in turn got live coverage of the hoax. I hope they find a way to charge him for the BS.
i think the bridge is already too far gone if it takes 1 truck to make it KIA.Quote:
Originally Posted by onebadmollafolla
Becuase you are an engineering expert and know exactly what happened right?
i don't give a flying fuck what happened. IF it was simply an errant truck that took it out...then there were serious existing issues. structures like bridges and skyscrapers are supposed to be able to withstand a certain amount of punishment. the WTC, for example was designed to withstand a b-25 crashing into it--and it probably could have done so (jumbo-jets are another issue entirely). buildings in SF are designed to withstand tectonic shifts.
if a bridge only needed 1 bleeding semi to bring it down, then i don't really think it was safe in the first place.