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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 05/23/2013 :  20:03:18  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
This just happened about an hour ago, no news yet about how many injured, but there are definitely cars in the river. [url="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Cars-bodies-in-Skagit-River-after-I-5-Bridge-collapse--208760201.html"]Skagit River Bridge on I-5 collapses[/url]
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Response Posted - 05/23/2013 :  20:34:15  Show Profile
Wow! Almost like the I-95 bridge in Greenwich, CT in 1983, where a complete section fell into the Mianus River. (The pronunciation, incidentally, is with a <i>short</i> "a". ) The best guess was an overweight big-rig caused too much stress on a pin at one corner of the section. I knew a guy who was in an airport limo that arrived right then and barely missed flying into the river.

Then there was the more recent one in Minnesota...
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Response Posted - 05/23/2013 :  21:07:55  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
It sounds like possibly only three vehicles involved, and all were rescued. That's just amazing if it's true. WSDOT is doing a bit of tap-dancing in an interview and only stating the obvious like "the bridge has collapsed into the Skagit River"...duh. News folks are pressing him for number of victims/survivors, etc.

This will be a big loss to commerce between BC & WA for months not to mention commutes.
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Response Posted - 05/24/2013 :  18:26:26  Show Profile
National news is reporting an over height truck passed over the bridge shortly before it collapsed and the top of the trailer tore a piece of metal on one of the beams in the top of the bridge. You could see the tear in one picture they showed.
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