Should make for lots of traffic jams tomorrow and weeks to come.
everyone okay?...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/29/BAGVOPHQU46.DTL
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I hope that no casualties are discovered later. It would have been so tragic had it happened during a higher traffic period.
I noted that "shortcuts" as used after the '94 quake would open the arteries sooner. Am I correct in assuming that those quake "shortcuts" have since been brought to full standards, and will be after this collapse.
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home page has a link to a story with a very good slideshow.
Some years ago a tanker burned under an offramp in the LA area, with no visible structural damage, but the overpass was rebuilt anyway. Concrete doesn't react well to that much heat.
FYI I recall that 8600 gallons is a full load for a standard single trailer. Couldn't have been any worse from that standpoint.
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Fatal Tanker Truck Explosion Damages Road
HOUSTON -- Part of the interchange between the Eastex Freeway and Interstate 10 will be closed for months after a tanker truck explosion damaged the ramps, KPRC Local 2 reported.
I-10 is a major truck route across the southern US.
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Interstate 95 was fully open Wednesday south of Baltimore, Maryland, as investigators sought clues in the crash of a tanker truck that fell onto the expressway from an overpass the day before, killing four people. (story and pics at link)
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that because most of our highways are darn near older than the hills and construction techniques from long ago are antiquated compared with how they build roads 'today' that fuel accidents involving high heat levels will continue to cause things like this to happen. It's just 'hit and miss' as to where the accidents occur. To be honest, I'm surprised we don't have many more bridge collapse incidents because the bridges throughout our country are in pretty bad shape now.
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