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The sinking of the old I90 Bridge was pretty spectacular as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
by zw123456 11y ago
The sinking of the old I90 Bridge was pretty spectacular as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridg...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0YQ3vuyyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm0YQ3vuyyY
I think there was even a song written about it.
All because some dummy left a hatch open and it filled with water. Even more fascinating, I recall that when divers went down to investigate they found a bunch of old cars at the bottom and solved a bunch of missing persons cases.
People apparently drove off of it back when there was a turn around in the middle of it, which was later fixed before the sinking, because so many people drove off the bridge.
- rconti 11y agoYeah, I remember the sinking. That was crazy. The Bulge was well-known to eat cars: http://blog.seattlepi.com/bellevue-pi/2011/05/18/looking-back-on-the-floating-bridge/ http://blog.seattlepi.com/bellevue-pi/2011/05/18/looking-bac...
- bebop 11y agoNot to mention the Hood Canal bridge collapse. Washington really has had a hard time with their bridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal_Bridge
- zw123456 11y agoThat's right! Here in Washington we like to build cool bridges and then destroy them :)