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I-5 Bridge Collapse

Wow, this is the town I live in. I drove that bridge 3-4 times this week on the way to work. Very scary stuff. That is a very heavily travelled bit of road as the main north-south route between Vancouver and Seattle. No deaths being reported yet, but they did say that there were 3 cars on the deck that had fallen.
 
The river is very high right now from the annual run-off coming out of the mountains. The water is very cold year round - about 45 degrees right now but never gets above about 60. The Skagit River is the second largest river on the west coast behind the Columbia.
 
Maybe this will finally convince Seattle to do something about that viaduct that runs along the south side of downtown by the market. Has anyone ever seen that thing??? I was absolutely shocked that they allowed vehicles to drive on something so derelict.
 
Local news just did a story on the condition of bridges and roadways around the state earlier this week, and civil engineers who performed the investigation gave them a D. As I recall it's similar to what had happened in Minneapolis years ago in that inspections/maintenance wasn't performed as often as necessary. Thankfully it was well after rush hour, but they're saying that this bridge sees 70,000 vehicles per day.
 
besserheimerphat said:
Local news just did a story on the condition of bridges and roadways around the state earlier this week, and civil engineers who performed the investigation gave them a D. As I recall it's similar to what had happened in Minneapolis years ago in that inspections/maintenance wasn't performed as often as necessary. Thankfully it was well after rush hour, but they're saying that this bridge sees 70,000 vehicles per day.
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Overall U.S. bridge grades are a C+. Overall U.S. Infrastructure gets a D+.
 
Solution: Keep spending boatloads of American taxpayer dollars overseas.

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Yes, I did.
 
besserheimerphat said:
Local news just did a story on the condition of bridges and roadways around the state earlier this week, and civil engineers who performed the investigation gave them a D. As I recall it's similar to what had happened in Minneapolis years ago in that inspections/maintenance wasn't performed as often as necessary. Thankfully it was well after rush hour, but they're saying that this bridge sees 70,000 vehicles per day.
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Not anymore it doesn't...
 
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