This is going to screw up traffic

I'm doubt there is a bridge that can sustain that kind of force without some damage

 

There isn't. It was a design flaw to not put structures around the pilings to prevent them from being contacted by a ship, but that's 20/20 hindsight in this case. DE has been working on surrounding the framewark of the DE Mem. bridge since 2018ish. Money has been granted and engineering done already, so I'd bet the timeline gets accelerated a bit now.

 

I crossed that on a motorcycle once. Once.
Chesapeake Bay, I didn't really have any other practical options. So it reluctantly happened a few times. But DM: once. That was enough.

 

I think the Millard E Tydings bridge 10 or 15 miles south is worse. I was in MD one windy day when it was blocked in both directions by blown over tractor trailers shortly after I drove over it. Then trees fell across I-40. The final route north was Rt 1. My wife is a lot smarter than me - after the trucks blew over, she suggested I should just get a hotel room. By the time the day ended every hotel for miles was full.

 

I did the mackinac I75 bridge on bike a few times. Thats all I got

5 miles. That bridge has sliders on each end ....I think it moves something like 6 feet side to side. I think they have full time drivers that'll drive your vehicle for you if you ask.

We did a snowmobile trip up there one winter and had to get motels for the night. Bridge had 200lb ice blocks that were falling on cars and busting the shit outta them so they closed it.

 

I crossed it a few times riding to the NJMP MA round. Didn't bother me much.

 

The old Coope River Bridge in Charleston. I still have nightmares about that thing.

 

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Best thing to happen to that bridge was being torn down and made into an artificial reef.
I crushed grouper and lionfish on the rubble.
It was an eyesore and sketchy AF.

 

Sketchiest bridge I’ve ever been on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Isle_Bridge

 

Hell, I get sketched out by the short and simple bridge at the Hoover dam and it's only just over a quarter mile long.
I greatly preferred the slower drive across the damn dam.
That bridge is way the fuck up there.

 

Why? Ain't like no boats are messing with that one. You're safe. Plus it's 20 seconds or less from side to side...pretty too.

 

I hate heights. The bridge just gets to me.

 

When I was young there was a 3 rope swinging bridge they called it… about 100ft above the ravine in Appalachia to get a family cabin

I’ll try to find a pic of it or another but it’s a bottom rope with a single width board, like a 1”x4” on top with a “handle rope” on each side to hang on to… there were only sporadic vertical ropes connecting the three… that’s the sketchiest bridge I’ve ever crossed… don’t think you would’ve liked it much

 

Looks like a limited number of smaller ships and barges are able to enter and exit the harbor now through a new marked channel under a section of the bridge that did not collapse. That is at least a good first step. Clearing the main channel for the large ships is going to take a while.

 

Understand that. Thought maybe they could drag it out of the way to open the port and work on it there.

 

Wartime footing, and peacetime graft-and union oriented situation are an apples and kiwifruit comparison.

 

There is a gas/oil pipeline down underneath.

 

It's not as if I got close to parking it than asking for rescue or anything. There was just a very uncomfortable feeling the whole time. Strangely, part of what freaked me out was how wide it was. Can't explain it. I felt like an ant on it.

 

Totally just jogged my memory of sketchy bridges... Find a lot of these in western NC: