To: ArrogantBustard; Corin Stormhands; Ramius
Oh my stars, WHAT IS THAT?? It's my worst nightmare, I can tell ya...it looks like it just pitches off into nothing! I would put my life preservers ON before even getting near that bridge!!
I can't hardly breath, just looking at the picture!
28 posted on
12/17/2004 8:21:24 AM PST by
2Jedismom
(HHD)
To: 2Jedismom
That, my dear, is one of this nation's greatest feats of Civil Engineering. You're looking at the northern approach to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, 13 miles of US Highway 13 spanning the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. To the left (east) is the Atlantic Ocean, to the right (west) is Hampton Roads. The complex include four completely artificial islands and two tunnel segments. This picture shows one tunnel segment ... it's large enough that a supertanker passing through would appear as a small dot in an image this size. The foreground is the southern tip of the DelMarVa Peninsula, the horizon is Virginia Beach.
34 posted on
12/17/2004 8:29:48 AM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: 2Jedismom; Ramius; ArrogantBustard
That's the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel.
Connects Norfolk/Virginia Beach with the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It was even more fun when it was just a single span (two lanes only)
35 posted on
12/17/2004 8:30:35 AM PST by
Corin Stormhands
(CHRISTmas: One season. One reason.)
To: 2Jedismom
"I can't hardly breath, just looking at the picture!"LOL, I see you have the same problem I have. Have you, btw, seen pictures of the French creation? I almost threw up just looking at the thing.
40 posted on
12/17/2004 8:35:32 AM PST by
Bahbah
To: 2Jedismom
You should experience riding a motorcycle across something like that--it's like flying!
42 posted on
12/17/2004 8:36:58 AM PST by
Cogadh na Sith
(--Scots Gaelic: 'War or Peace'--)
To: 2Jedismom
We use to ping the tunnel on the way out to test out sub active sonar.
74 posted on
12/17/2004 8:58:06 AM PST by
bmwcyle
(I wear sleepwear therefore I think (When they are off I am single minded))
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