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diamondbackseye (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Salvagers? People actually had to be outlawed from diving into the water and swiping souvenirs from this?
Gertie's (that is such a lame nickname) designer must have looked like Rodney Dangerfield the rest of his life---"Whoa!!! tough crowd here!!
yodaballs1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i watched this at school during Industrial Tech =) were building a bridge tomorrow made of wood but who cares
FretBoardPlayGround (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
RIP Spot.... haha a dog died in this shit... fuckin mut
BackfallGenius (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Lol @ people thinking its a fake. It is real, the vibration frequencies of the steel in the bridge just so happened to exactly match the wind frequencies on that day, which altered the normal frequency rate of the bridge itself, causing it to sway and eventually collapse.
The chances of this actually happening were very rare so the engineers of this bridge forgot about it, but it did happen, as seen in this video.
CrazedSquirrel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
No. Where in the video?
bigjr872 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
how did they put tht old video in color
KookyMonster14 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
now that my friends is how NOT to build a bridge!
charliemac64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think you are thinking of the Hood Canal Bridge, about 60 miles north of this bridge. It is a different type of structure, a floating concrete pontoon bridge. Half of it was destroyed in February 1979 during a hellacious storm.
charliemac64 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The bridge didn't get rebuilt for some time as all the raw materials were going for the war effort even before the war. The fact it opened in 1940 must be held in check that it took a couple of years to build the bridge, and that appropriations therefore were from several years before that.
That, and I think they had to go back to the drawing board. :)
I drive over the replacement, and the new sister bridge, frequently.
laSKJDFNA (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I really like the sign saying "closed" in the end :D
Tacoma has served as an example for engineers
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