Why are you so much higher than the traffic, overpass?

I'm tall.


just kidding.

This was taken on I-90, you're looking at the Lacey V. Murrow Floating Bridge. Most large bridge approaches rise from the road level to bridge deck, but in this case, the road's much higher than the surface of the bridge.

Here's a picture taken from the west side of the bridgehead area, looking eastward. The picture was taken when I was approximately where the orange truck is in this picture, just far enough through the overhead trusswork that it doesn't appear in the frame.

Thank you ZenGum, funny and flattering. :)

I never heard of a permanent floating bridge before. It seemed odd to me since things that float can also sink, and there in BigV's link is the story of this bridge sinking back in 1990. Crazy.

I was greeted by this sight when I went to retrieve the paper the other morning...:)

That's incredible, BigV--you still get a newspaper?!

*snort*

A newspaper is a much better user interface than a web page. Even if the news is 18 hours old.

Hey, I just bought a Sunday paper a week ago. Haven't looked at it yet, but I'll scan it as I pack up the glassware and stuff. Actually about the only thing I miss about not working, is reading the paper at lunch... I really enjoyed that.

Youse guys crack me up. Yeah... I'm old skool like that. I get the paper as much for principle as I do for news. I'm voting with my wallet for the kind of media environment I want to live in, that I want my children to live in. We used to have two papers here in town, and the one I take is just dying more slowly. I don't believe we'd have a better place to live if there were no newspapers, especially local newspapers.

Plus, the paper gives me something to count on in the morning. I mean, in my area, I can't really count on the sun coming up every day. I just got lucky on this day. Rumor, yes. Empirical evidence, no. But the paper shows up each morning.