#840296 - 05/23/13 10:24 PM
Skagit Bridge I-5
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anyone hear anything about the bridge collapsing yet? they just started talking about it... cars and people are in the water, dont know how many...
anything?
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#840302 - 05/23/13 10:30 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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yeah King 5 just said that the entire I-5 bridge both North and South lanes has collapsed.. and people are trapped in the water...
sorry mods, you can move this elsewhere if you would like, its just pertaining to a major river is why i put it here...
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#840303 - 05/23/13 10:36 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Washington State Patrol confirms an I-5 bridge over the Skagit River has collapsed and at least two cars with people inside are in the water. The incident has closed all northbound and southbound lanes.
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#840304 - 05/23/13 10:36 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Dammmmmmm....
I just drove over that thing last weekend!
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#840307 - 05/23/13 10:38 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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ONE SECTION COLLAPSED..........Not the entire bridge.
Still VERY bad.....
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#840314 - 05/23/13 10:47 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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yeah im hearing that now Randy... you know how the news is tho... looking at the pictures, its weird, its like a clean sheer off on both sides of the section....
and this comes just after we got a D- in the road infrastructure and being said that 34% of our bridges are past their prime... way past...
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#840322 - 05/23/13 11:01 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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that's going to be a problem.
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#840326 - 05/23/13 11:08 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Yikes! Hope everyone is alright.
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#840329 - 05/23/13 11:15 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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From the looks of it, Time to scrap the whole thing and build a new one. Why repair when its that old...
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#840330 - 05/23/13 11:16 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Registered: 10/20/04
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Dammmmmmm....
I just drove over that thing last weekend! yeah, me too! I guess we just take things for granted....... willy
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#840331 - 05/23/13 11:19 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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What happened?
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#840332 - 05/23/13 11:22 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Turn on the news, Bridge apparently just collapsed into the river.
I wonder if they'll use this as an excuse to jack up fuel prices...I'm gonna go fill up.
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#840334 - 05/23/13 11:25 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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WSDOT keeps stepping on its weiner this year.
The brand new 520 pontoons are cracked and now this. I have heard that a lot of engineers were trying to move over to Bridge Preservation to get away from the heat on the Engineering side because of the 520 fvckup, but now Bridge Pres is going to be under fire.
Transportation secretary's seat is probably on fire this evening.
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#840335 - 05/23/13 11:27 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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speaking of 520 they are upping the rates again, 3.25 and 5.25 i think it was...
channel 4 KOMO is live if you guys havent seen...
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#840336 - 05/23/13 11:28 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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River Nutrients
Registered: 05/27/00
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Uhhhhhh the bridge collapsed!!!
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#840337 - 05/23/13 11:32 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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How?
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#840340 - 05/23/13 11:34 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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I've never felt safe on that bridge. Every time I go over it I think of how weak it looks. It just seems out of place compared to other bridges like its too short or something.
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#840341 - 05/23/13 11:40 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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labeled Functionally Obsolete in 2000.... and then again, in 2010...
i cant quite tell, but is that flipped trailer a boat trailer, or a destroyed camper?
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#840343 - 05/23/13 11:45 PM
Re: Skagit Bridge I-5
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Registered: 03/07/12
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This is unbelievable, biggest local news story of the year by far.
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