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I-10 Bridge FAIL Los Angeles cut off from Phoenix

ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Heavy rain took out a bridge over a dry wash and cut off Phoenix from Los Angeles. Luckily only one man hurt and no one died.

There's going to be a huge amount of traffic diverting south to I-8 and over to San Diego. Or north to I-40 and go through Barstow.

http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/07/19/desert-center-bridge-collapse/30395123/

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    News radio this morning says Arizona is stopping I-10 traffic at Quartzite to give drivers the option of using highway 95 north and south.
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Damn weather, after hurricane Hugo we had such a mess here in Charleston. I can only imagine what the people dealing with the aftermath of some of these storms are facing.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Perhaps the fed should be fixing these bridges instead of giving billions away to undeserving people.
  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    Bridges don't vote.
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder if we could organize a million bridges protest in DC...
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    All those shovel ready jobs, if we had spent the Billions given in corporate bailouts on infrastructure we could have hired all the people who are getting handouts.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • USN_AirdaleUSN_Airdale Member Posts: 2,987
    edited November -1
    WOW !! i have driven over that "bridge" several times over the past 40 years, only once did i see any water under it, and it was barely a trickle.

    quote:Perhaps the fed should be fixing these bridges instead of giving billions away to undeserving people.<
    <<<<< [:(!] I AGREE !

    "people", you mean like muslime murderers and other illegal aliens ?
  • MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The gas stations in the "new route" stops are going to need a lot of fuel, jerky, burger meat, and frozen french fries.
  • SGSG Member Posts: 7,548
    edited November -1
    The real "bridge to nowhere"! Glad nobody was hurt.
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by catgunguy
    Bridges don't vote.


    Don't give the democrats any more ideas. If dead people can vote I don't see why bridges can't?
  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Of course the old wooden bridge, which dates back to 1932, appears to still be standing.
  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now if we can get I-15 and I-8 cut off too we can finally stem the flow of liberal asshats into AZ [;)]
  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The entire highway is closed, but it looks as if only one side collapsed.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Txs
    The entire highway is closed, but it looks as if only one side collapsed.
    Saw where the E Bound side is SEVERELY washed-out..
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by USN_Airdale
    WOW !! i have driven over that "bridge" several times over the past 40 years, only once did i see any water under it, and it was barely a trickle.

    quote:Perhaps the fed should be fixing these bridges instead of giving billions away to undeserving people.<
    <<<<< [:(!] I AGREE !

    "people", you mean like muslime murderers and other illegal aliens ?


    There are plenty of white trash folks, right here in NNY, that are second or third generation welfare bums.

    I count them amoung the undeserving, also.
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mark christian
    Of course the old wooden bridge, which dates back to 1932, appears to still be standing.


    [:D]

    Perhaps it was iron wood!? [:o)]
  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Somebody's parents are going to be upset; all that money for a civil engineering degree.......

    Neal
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    News said one side was washed out and collapsed and the other had structural damage too severe to allow traffic to cross it.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well look at it this way. Some union slug will have a job for the next five years. Non union, six months. I know, I have been watching that scenario play out near me. After super storm sandy, we had many bridges washed out. Two bridges about a mile apart on route 559. Union still is working on a small little bridge to date. The other larger one was reopened about four months later by a non union company. Oh, but the union had their men there with a big inflatable rat, drinking coffee, and harassing the non union workers. Like I said, SLUGS
  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,178 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So, there's a drought in California but when it rains the bridges fall apart?
  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't understand why they have to go all the way to I-40. Arizona
    95 to Parker & then west to get back to I-10. I take that road from the I-10 to 29 Palms whenever I go to Laughlin. I bet it is a nightmare now. So much for going to Laughlin or Lake Havasu for a while now.
    There are also bridges out on old Rt 66 that washed out quite a while ago. You have to go up to I-40 just East of Amboy.
  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drive over that bridge and others along the 10 4 times a year. I have never seen any water in those washes.

    If they will let drivers into Ca, they can also take the other hwy 95 in Blythe that parallels the 95 in Ariz, go north to the 62.
  • Missouri Mule K30Missouri Mule K30 Member Posts: 2,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Well look at it this way. Some union slug will have a job for the next five years. Non union, six months. I know, I have been watching that scenario play out near me. After super storm sandy, we had many bridges washed out. Two bridges about a mile apart on route 559. Union still is working on a small little bridge to date. The other larger one was reopened about four months later by a non union company. Oh, but the union had their men there with a big inflatable rat, drinking coffee, and harassing the non union workers. Like I said, SLUGS




    SO TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL.
    Why is it a "Union" issue anyhow?
    I really have to wonder, no I don't but will respond to your thoughtless response about Union Workers.
    I Guess you receive your wages because that great employer thinks that you deserve them.
    Fact is, it is the same Union Worker that you despise, I will talk Trade Unions, that has bargained for wages and benefits over 100 years so that the average person can make a living.
    That same great non union employer pays wages to keep qualified employees, because Unions bargain for a fair wage.
    If not for Union Employees, standing up for better pay, pension, medical, the same great non union company would be playing the I will pay 1 Dollar a day, then hire 4 men at .25 cents instead.
    I guess you did this all by yourself, good pay, 401k,medical, no, Unions have done it for every working person, still even today.
    So instead of berating Unions, just say thanks that they exist at all because otherwise who else can you blame? Proud Member Laborers Local 110
  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always wonder why when they are taking credit for all the Great Things Brought to You by Unions, the list ends before we get to the $28 per hour janitors, the Employed-for-Life Paradigm where no one ever loses their job, and the public employee unions that even George Meany thought were a bad idea.

    How about taking credit for pricing manufacturing jobs out of the country? We have the Port of Portland around here busily dying because the Longshoreman have been violating both contracts and the law and have chased away the shippers. Still haven't seen the organized labor family take credit for that debacle.

    Unions played a role that was likely needed 100 years ago. Today? Not so much.

    They have become self-promoting leeches whose main purpose seems to be financing leftist politicians. Given what leftist politicians have been doing to this country for the last 50 pr 60 years, if you want to take credit for it, good for you.
  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Water makes for a very potent tool... t's relentless. Glad no-one was killed.

    oghpwtz
  • pip5255pip5255 Member Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    were these bridges built by union labor
    just because you could doesn't mean you should
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