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Old 09-15-2018, 11:43 AM   #436
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Much quicker to go over it...
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Old 09-15-2018, 11:59 AM   #437
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Old 09-15-2018, 12:03 PM   #438
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I think the word you're looking for is stupider.
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Old 09-15-2018, 12:24 PM   #439
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Earlier this week on the weekly food shopping trip there was a small car actually on a roundabout in a state of some disarray with a 'Police Aware' sticker on it.
Heh... "Police Aware" is so adorably British. I can only imagine the American version of such a thing.

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Old 09-15-2018, 12:26 PM   #440
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Old 09-20-2018, 10:25 PM   #441
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Somebody stole the bridge...
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Old 09-21-2018, 02:42 AM   #442
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...right out from under him!
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Old 09-21-2018, 09:19 AM   #443
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Somebody stole the bridge...
View the guard rail. It was not a bridge.
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Old 09-21-2018, 09:40 AM   #444
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Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side?
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Old 09-21-2018, 01:47 PM   #445
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View the guard rail. It was not a bridge.
Whatever it was, it crossed water.

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Old 09-21-2018, 02:03 PM   #446
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"Bridge" is the new "capsize"

The headline says a bridge gave out, but the reporter on the scene says saturated ground crumbled away. Probably a culvert pipe.
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Old 09-21-2018, 02:07 PM   #447
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Bigger than a pipe. There's concrete there.
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Old 09-21-2018, 02:37 PM   #448
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You can see in the picture the water had come over the top on both ends of the bridge by the way the grass on the right is laid over. Looks like it washed away the road then the bridge went with no support behind the near side abutment.
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Old 09-21-2018, 03:22 PM   #449
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Then how do you explain the concrete abutment on the far side?
A rather interesting question. Supports for the guardrails were driven in dirt - not driven through a bridge. Above the embankment and below pavement is dirt. So what is called a bridge may have been some type of tunnel. That explains why the nearside has no concrete abutment. But does not explain why the far side abutment is so high.

Meanwhile grass on the shoulder also implies the shoulder over the 'bridge' was dirt.

Maybe a bridge was once there and replaced by a pipe that was covered by dirt. Therefore someone replaced a bridge on the cheap apparent with a pipe that was too small.

Look closely at skid marks maybe 75 feet long. That trucker apparently knew something was wrong and tried to stop.
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Old 09-21-2018, 03:57 PM   #450
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Let's just call it a culvert.

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