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Posted on 03/31/2017 3:59:30 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler
Part of Interstate 85 collapsed north of downtown Atlanta Thursday night after a massive fire broke out under the busy highway during afternoon rush hour traffic.
The fire broke out at around 6 p.m. Atlanta fire officials told Fox 5 the blaze caught giant spools of plastic utility conduits which were being stored under the overpass.
No injuries to motorists or firefighters were reported. Georgia State Patrol Capt. Mark Perry told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that terrorism is not suspected.
Prior to the collapse, structural engineers told FOX 5 they were worried about fire melting the metal under the bridge. Witnesses say troopers told motorists to turn around on the bridge because they were concerned about its integrity.
The bridge collapsed at around 7 p.m. Foam trucks were eventually brought up from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to smother the remaining fire.
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There is absolutely some truth to that. I looked at the Waze map earlier, and it really didn’t look that horrible, all things considered.
One of my road dogs had an hour comute for years, he bought tapes and learned morse code and got his ham radio license and then learned spanish and is still learning.
It’s reasonably geographically remote, but yeah, it won’t help. People seeking alternate routes due to the bridge failure will affect people trying to get to the game.
The only saving grace is the Braves don’t play again until Monday or Tuesday, and it’s out of town. So there aren’t games Saturday and Sunday, as there would be in a typical series. Opening day schedules are different.
I can set my schedule as much as possible but I need to manage my staff and attend meetings that occur during the normal business hours so some days I have to be here and leave during the worst of rush hour traffic.
‘the temperature must be very hot to reach the steel melting temperature’
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
;)
That’s inconvenient.
I have actually been through Houston when there was a wreck. Driving home from a San Antonio vacation and yes that was a nightmare also.
Also my commute is so long because I live 110 miles from where I work. I live in a completely rural area so I can have peace at night and on the weekends and I commute because when I got this job and looked for something rural from the north Atlanta area where I work I had to go so far out it was the same commute time so why move. Have 3 kids in college and trying to get them through then will look at downsizing and if less money better lifestyle is worth it.
One small oversight.....
A billion gallons of gasoline will be burned up in cars caught in traffic jams.
Ripped from the pages of Atlas Shrugged.
Original plan was to learn another language while I was driving BUT then Atlanta commute first taught me that regular traffic reports on the radio were more important than any education :). Garmin with traffic gives you a general feel for which direction to go but you learn quickly to look at the situation and how things are flowing and ignore the Garmin half of the time also.
Atlanta - the city where rain hitting the asphalt releases stupid gas into the atmosphere and everyone forgets how to drive.
My commute home was spent returning vendor phone calls but not sure now if I can do that now. Will probably be saying things my vendors do not need to hear while driving.
So who pays for the damage?
Google? The utility? or do the taxpayers see a rate hike again?
“I’ll be taking MARTA to work today. I’m a state employee—all state employees in the metro area start work at 10 am today.”
MARTA
Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta?
I had a carpentry book which had an after fire picture of a failed steel beam wrapped around a wood beam.
Here too. We have one in Athens and there is one in Cleveland. I assume you are talking about Cleveland. :-) I for sure wouldn’t go to Atlanta to Waffle House when they are all over the South.
One of the key things in Firefighting is new “truss” construction..You have 10 minutes in a truss building (wood trusses held together by those steel honeycomb clamps) because those steel clamps will only last 10 minutes in a 1000* F fire.
Where are all the 9-11 conspiracy folks? Reinforced Concrete on fire?? That’s unpossible!
Where is that in relationship to the Atlanta airport (Hartsfield)?
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