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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 May 2013 05:30

:-0 :-0 :-0 :-0


I'm just listening "agog" to my radio .......

.......... a span of a 4-lane bridge about 130 km (or about an hour's drive) south of us in Washington State has collapsed. It happened about 7 pm, or about 90 minutes ago

it looks as if the span just dropped down

It's the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Mount Vernon

There are 3 cars with people in them in the river, and the rescue boats have just got the first couple of people on board. Not sure how many people are in the water ..............

.................. but it does seem as though there might have been only 1 person in each car.


http://www.vancouversun.com/Skagit+River+Bridge+collapses+Washington+State+cars+people+seen+water/8427846/story.html




The Interstate-5 (or I-5) is the main road north from Seattle to the Canadian border ......... so this will cause quite the disruption

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 May 2013 05:31

one man was driving behind a flatbed truck, and says he saw the truck brush against a girder as he passed over that spa.


The media is wondering, without any evidence, whether that could be the cause.

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 24 May 2013 09:03

How terrible, Sylvia. :-0

Have not watched news yet, but will have my tea and toast and see what it says. Hope all are ok

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 24 May 2013 10:04

This is quite scary:

"The bridge was built in 1955 and has a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records. That is well below the statewide average rating of 80, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.

Washington state was given a C in the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2013 infrastructure report card and a C- when it came to the state's bridges.

The group said more than a quarter of Washington state's 7,840 bridges were considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)