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Wow, Bay Bridge Collapses Again
1 star|12 comments|April 30, 2007|622 reads
 

The San Francisco Bay Bridge is arguably one of the highest trafficked bridges in all the west coast. The double decker brings thousands of people in and out of the city each day. Until yesterday.

Early Sunday morning flames from an overturned gasoline truck actually melted one part of an overpass causing it to collapse on top of the northbound overpass. To my limited knowledge this similar collapse occured after the Loma Prieta earthquake back in the late 80's.

 

bay bridge fire bay bridge collapse #2

In this last collapse, thankfully no one died (the driver however suffered 2nd degree burns), but this will cause traffic mania in the bay area for months to come. Glad I don't have to cross any bridges to get to work!

 

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Voice in DC
 Voice in DC
April 30, 2007

I can only imagine if something like this happened in DC...maybe I can't. I know it would ruin my day, week, month - until it got fixed.

Reading through the Homeland Security blotter this morning, there was a tanker that exploded on an interstate ramp in Houston over the weekend, too. Go figure.

Voice in DC
 Voice in DC
April 30, 2007

Here is what was posted about Houston...

April 27, Associated Press — Heavily traveled Houston interchange closed indefinitelyfollowing tanker explosion. Part of a heavily traveled Houston interchange is closed

indefinitely because of damage from an early morning tanker truck explosion Friday, April 27,

that killed its driver. The diesel−filled rig was heading onto the southbound ramp from U.S.

Highway 59 onto Interstate 10 eastbound near downtown Houston when it flipped and

exploded. The Texas Department of Transportation closed that ramp, as well as the I−10

eastbound ramp onto U−S 59 north. Investigators say the rig apparently taking the ramp too

fast.

Source: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7a773990−1564−4d92−a2dc−faa9f202f468

Dave Hamm
 Dave Hamm
April 30, 2007
Wow! :eek: I'm also thankful nobody was killed. Structures like that and if at a peak in rush hour traffic could really have had lots of fatalities/injuries. Dave
Daniel Beasley
 Daniel Beasley
April 30, 2007
Voice is right--it's hard to imagine somthing like this taking out a bridge in the DC metro area.  But we did have a taste of this when a tanker fell off the I-895 overpass onto the northbound lanes of I-95 and exploded. This happened just before the afternoon rush on December 13th, 2004. It was a mess and even the southbound side was closed for several hours -- but the overpass was declared safe later that evening and the road below was open in time for rush hour the next morning. 
Dave Hamm
 Dave Hamm
April 30, 2007

There was the January 13, 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 disaster on the 14th Street Bridge:

http://www.aviationpast.com/AF90.html

I was providing part of the emergency communications net via Ham Radio's USAF Military Affiliated Radio System with Andrews Air Force base that day. I was Maryland's USAF MARS director at the time.

Dave

Kathy
Kathy
April 30, 2007
Wow indeed!  What a photo!
Sue
Sue
April 30, 2007
I saw this on Fox News.  Unbelievable. 
Daniel Beasley
 Daniel Beasley
April 30, 2007
Cathy's right--it was January 13th.  That'll teach me to type when I could've cut and pasted!
Carol Suh
 Carol Suh
April 30, 2007

Wow.. Jan 13th sounds like a day to remember..

Jan 17th was the 6.7 Northridge earthquake that caused the 10 Fwy in Los Angeles to collapse.  It made our grand piano jump a foot and a half, and proved to be the most costly earthquake in US history. 

I should really stop putting a "the" in front of the freeway numbers.. :P (as if there's only 1 10 Fwy in all the US!).

 

Voice in DC
 Voice in DC
April 30, 2007
I remember the earthquake very well. The pics added here are spectacular. Makes one marvel at the strength (heat) of the fire to melt the steel girders of the bridge...
Allen Santos
 Allen Santos
April 30, 2007

i drove past that today... the angle of the aftermath doesn't show how much was really taken out.