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05-01-2007, 07:02 AM | #1 | ||
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May 1, 2007: Melted freeway
Via Spluch comes this sfgate.com story about a gasoline tanker's misadventure near Oakland, CA. Seems the gent was traveling a bit fast and overturned. The thing is, if you do that to a gas tanker, and the gas ignites: It may just be hot enough to melt all the metal in the structure of an overpass. Quote:
The driver had enough sense to know he was hurt and hailed a taxi to get off the scene and to a hospital: Quote:
It's not so bad. If you had a good four-wheel drive you could still use it. |
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05-01-2007, 07:04 AM | #2 |
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We've had this one on the news over here. I was amazed when I first saw the story. I thought someone had blown it up till I turned the sound up and found out it was the heat from the fire alone that'd caused all the damage.
It must have been intense.
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05-01-2007, 07:34 AM | #3 |
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Those poor bastards will have traffic nightmares for a while with this. Glad it didn't happen in my city.
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05-01-2007, 08:16 AM | #4 |
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This even made page one of the Taipei newspaper.
Wow.
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05-01-2007, 08:41 AM | #5 |
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Something like this should quiet the conspiracy theorists that think the WTC towers were brought down by the government...but they'll find some way to twist it to their point of view.
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05-01-2007, 09:02 AM | #6 | |
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Not that I want to start any conspiracy theories or anything. hehehe
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05-01-2007, 09:25 AM | #7 |
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05-01-2007, 08:55 AM | #8 |
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W.O.W.
Would the tankers insurance company be responsible for the repair of the bridge, (assuming it was properly insured), or does the city end up having to eat the cost of the repairs? Either way, yikes.
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05-01-2007, 09:26 AM | #9 |
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This is really their own fault for building a bridge on the cheap. Engineers have known for years that all structural steel should be encased in concrete. That protects it from fire, especially the ultra-hot kind. And it's not like this the first time a gas truck ever burned on the road. Hopefully, they'll rebuild it right this time.
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05-01-2007, 09:52 AM | #10 |
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From www.rosie.com:
"jen writes: Your right again! Have you seen them demo the SF bridge? Steel Beams still there and holding up most of it! Not melted rubble, concrete having to be broken up. Keep speaking out - more are joining! CORRECT JEN "
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05-01-2007, 09:57 AM | #11 |
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Paging Dr Rosie O'Donnel....
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05-01-2007, 10:18 AM | #12 |
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Sheldon, if you and your partner ever go on one of her cruises, I may have no choice but to kick your asses...but it won't be a hate crime, I assure you.
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05-01-2007, 11:26 AM | #13 | |
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But I actually like Rosie. So you can go ahead and do what you want with my ass. ;-)
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05-01-2007, 06:06 PM | #14 |
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So - I live in the bay area - but I live in south bay - San Jose - and I work in Fremont (about 30 mins south of Oakland). This was expected to cause ALL sorts of traffic nightmares - but so far it hasn't been that bad. Public transportation is free this week. Oddly enough - everyone has been pretty gracious about the whole thing.
Funniest thing though - CalTrans has said that they hope to have this fixed by the end of the week - I say HAHAHAHAHAHAH to that.
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Is it a modular structure? I have no idea... |
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