Uke wrote:

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Nobody (They say...) was killed!

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 Do you think that "they" would tell you if there was anybody dead?

Obama's MSM (Madrasa State Media) only tell yUke what they want you to know.

Pretty sure just those 3 unlucky/lucky souls were at the right
time and place. Their stories all describe a "chance" to "check-
out"...this is it I'm going to die but it wasnt that time as all
3 persons just went through total hell...including be in a
submerged automobile filling up with icy cold Skagit River.
What an expierence. So once we got everybody rescued
we shift to the "Aftermath" of this "key" bridge on I-5.
I already know every detour route around the Skagit River
between Mt Vernon and Burlington. Those routes are the
ones you take on a Sunday drive with the wife. The Mt Vernon
Burlington area has grown a lot in the last 20 years and
they got "bad traffic" going all the time especially on what
is now the new "detour of Northbound I-5 traffic" with a
3-4 automobiles and 2 semi-trucks and 2 cars and 1 semi-
truck. All this detour I-5 traffic is going through about 10-12
stoplights at intersections where the "5-minute" wait is the
norm. Monitored how the "now set-up detours" went
Friday and it was "miles long going either way" all day
pretty much putting Mt Vernon and Burlington traffic
into a semi-permanet gridlock for months. Those outlying
routes you took on a Sunday drive are going to see
truck-traffic now as the roar of traffic is going to increase
dramatically for this area. Thinking the BNSF might be in
for some "new business" as this steady flow of containers
going by I-5 from Vancouver BC is certainly going to be
looking for an alternative now. Heard they put on another
Amtrack train to run RT Seattle to Bellingham daily.
While the main story will be the bridge-collapse and
the ones that went into the water, the "other disaster"
it created was a "perpetual traffic jam" for this location
on I-5 for ...?

Pain in the neck for everyone, almost.

Although, gasoline sales are increased substantially  in strategic locations.

The long struggling petrochemical industry will benefit, at least.

-- Edited by Thunderwagon5000 on Sunday 26th of May 2013 06:57:26 AM

Merced River at Yosemite

 

http://goo.gl/maps/ycCwO

-- Edited by Snippy on Sunday 26th of May 2013 09:53:20 AM

The very latest outa DC concerning the Mt. Vernon, WA bridge collapse:

 

2 temporary steel bridges to span across Skagit River after Wash. I-5 collapse

 

 

 

 

 

The spans will be pre-built and trucked to Mount Vernon, Wash., where the collapse happened.

The state plan also calls for a permanent span to be built at the same time with crews rolling in the permanent fix by autumn, officials said.

Were going to get this project done as fast as humanly possible, Inslee said. There are no more important issue right now to the economy of the state of Washington than getting this bridge up and running.

Officials say there are remaining inspections to the spans left standing to make sure they are safe to use.

The federal government is expected to cover 100 percent of the costs of the temporary bridge and 90 percent the replacement, said state Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson.

The temporary span would be able to carry regular-sized cargos as well as cars. The speed limit would be lower than the 60 miles per hour allowed previously.

On Thursday, a semi-truck carrying an oversize load clipped a steel truss, starting the collapse of the span and sending cars and people into the cold river waters, authorities said. The three people in the cars survived with non-life threatening injuries.

But the collapse cut access to one the most important highways in Washington state for trade, commuters and travelers.

On Saturday, barges arrived at the river with equipment ready to remove the mangled steel, pavement and cars in the water.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Debbie Hersman on Sunday said the bridge had withstood other over height collisions with vehicles in the past, with the most recent reported collision happening last October. She said evidence of other collisions can be seen in the spans still standing over the water.

Hersman also said a second truck with a similar cargo was traveling behind the truck involved in the collision. She said investigators are inspecting that cargo and truck to take measurements. The truck involved in the collision has also been moved off the highway on-ramp where it has been parked since Thursday.

Hersman also said investigators have traveled to Alberta, Canada to inspect the trucking companys records.

The NTSB head also said that if the truck had been on the left lane of the southbound lanes, it likely would have cleared the bridge without a collision, but added that more precise measurements need to be taken. The bridges height clearance varies across it.

We know the company was required to establish that they could clear the entire route, Hersman said.

The trucks cargo from Canada was headed to Alaska. Its plan was to load its cargo onto a barge in Vancouver, Wash., about 275 miles south of the border crossing.

-- Edited by Uke on Sunday 26th of May 2013 04:31:35 PM

Three weeks = 21 days. Krink loses? How can this be?

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