Posted on 04/14/2015 2:01:31 PM PDT by QT3.14
Full title: Young married couple and their baby son killed after a chunk of CONCRETE falls off Washington state bridge and crushes their pickup truck...A mother, father and their eight-month old baby boy were killed on Monday when a concrete barrier fell onto their truck as they were driving under an overpass in Washington State.
The tragic accident claimed the lives of Josh and Vanessa Ellis and baby Hudson, who were crushed when the 50-foot-long concrete slab slammed down on top of them, according to Bonney Lake Police.
The barrier weighed 'tons' according to investigators and the damage to the family's pickup truck was so great that it took them hours to extract the bodies.
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Could it be the bridge was being brought into compliance with the ADA Law?.............
‘________were both youth pastors.’
Oh dear Lord - take them home - - -
This amendment is honored to the letter. I know this from experience because I worked the state legislature on freight and passenger rail related issues for nearly a decade. Not a penny of gasoline taxes goes to education, welfare or illegal immigrants.
So not one penny goes to a illegal alien, road workers ? Sure.
During the stimulus, the wealthiest town in Massachusetts (Sudbury) was using millions of dollars of that money to pay for teacher’s union healthcare benefits.
That is where it went.
Illegal aliens can’t work for a bonded construction company unless they have false documentation that is good enough to pass muster.
They’re real big on bike lanes and pedestrian pathways here in The Peoples’ Republic of WA. They’re about to raise our gas tax another 11 cents a gallon.
There are other transportation related taxes not bound by the 18th Amendment to the Washington State Constitution, and these are used for highways, bike paths, pedestrian paths, bus and rail transit, and freight and passenger rail projects. When the federal government started throwing money at freight and passenger rail in 2009, the state of Washington stepped back from funding these projects.
Tragic for those twins and this family. I don’t pretend to know God’s mind, but stuff like this can shake people.
They’re all with God now though and they probably feel bad for us stuck on this earth.
Or maybe a bike path?
Could be, probably both. The news report just mentioned sidewalk improvement...
Two youth pastors at a local church and their infant. They wouldn’t have known what hit them.
There are two kinds of concrete, the kind that’s cracked and the kind that’s about to crack.
Can some civil engineer tell me why all highway bridges aren’t steel?
On Rt 9 here in MA, I always looked up when passing under bridges. They are ancient concrete bridges. My wife used to laugh, but I noticed that they recently put up nets under the bridges.
Instead of the TARP monies going where obozo said it was going to go, repairing the US infrastructure (remember the shovel ready jobs), he fraudulently gave most of it to democrat cronies who (supposedly) invested it in business adventures (that failed) and this is the result, a still crumbling infrastructure that is now causing the deaths of Americans. Better yet, now Congress wants to tax us more to garner more money to start fixing our national infrastructure. Anybody in the Federal Government gone to jail yet for all of their fraud and theft?? Prayers for that family.
Obama could have signed an executive order suspending the EIS requirement for these projects, but that would have infuriated the environmental lobby. He chose to let some of that money go elsewhere. But most of it is siting in escrow, waiting for the permitting process to run its course, before being spent. In Washington, there were three separate major tranches of money, and that money is sitting in government bonds until the projects are green lighted by the EPA.
I know, I live in eastern Washington and put those elements n all my projects
The infrastructure is crumbling, and money is going to illegals and freeloaders. It’s all good.
Steel rusts much faster than concrete breaks down especially when you factor the road salt, atmospheric corrosion, bird droppings, etc.
The concrete bridges up there have issues because of the yearly freeze thaw cycles, the road salt, and the fact that they were not designed to handle the daily traffic loads.
He did, resting in his arms
“Illegal aliens can’t work for a bonded construction company unless they have false documentation that is good enough to pass muster.”
come on, no-match is a joke.
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