My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people's lives, as usual), but I'd still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren't harmed.
Photo of the aftermath:
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8 years ago, the bridge was called "structurally deficient", although I don't know if anything changed since then.
It was called one of Amerika's scariest bridges for truckers 3 years ago. People have called it "high and tight".
20 workers were actively doing bridge repair as it was knocked down
Good to know. Really sad for those workers. I hope they're OK.
reports are 7/20 went into the drink, can’t imagine hearing a loud crash while working on a bridge and turning to see a freighter knocking out a support column while you’re on it, the anticipation of knowing that falling hundreds of meters is inevitable and that the freezing water leads to hypothermia quickly, all to the soundtrack of screaming, twisting metal and crunching concrete
Can't imagine working on a bridge and seeing a ship that size and thinking... huh... that's getting awfully close... its... its going to miss right?
And then ...OHFUCKOHSHITOHFUCKOHSHIT!