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To: Rose in RoseBear
what is wrong/bad/scary about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?

Nothing. One of the most awesome sights you'll ever see is crossing it. At that time of night, you won't have any rush hour traffic, so you should breeze right across. You'll pass within less than a mile from my house just when your getting on it. They're building a twin second bridge right alongside it -- that'll be an incredible sight with two of them there. It's a big bridge, and pretty long too. Hope you don't have vertigo.

2,583 posted on 06/07/2004 9:28:35 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Hope you don't have vertigo.

Uh-oh...

;-)

I'm terrified of bridges...but I don't let it stop me. But I tell ya, when the I-40 bridge collapsed here, it was like my worst nightmare. I'm terrified of driving off, getting blown off by the wind or some other way of plummeting into the drink.

I once nearly had a stroke when Steve was driving over a dam-type bridge and it was extremely windy (and I mean business windy...Okie windy)...Steve took one hand off the steering wheel to point out something and I went nuts! Took me 10 minutes to calm down afterward with Steve apologizing the whole time!

Normally they don't bother me even THAT bad, but that happened right after I had been driving along and got blown over into the opposite side of the road. And I had both hands on the wheel. My van is "high profile" and it just caught my van and pushed me over to the other side!

So I was still not over that incident...it was heavy on my mind and I could just see us getting hit with a gust of wind while Steve had one hand off the wheel pointing...

Kur-Splash!

I promise, I'll remain calm.

2,586 posted on 06/07/2004 9:39:10 PM PDT by 2Jedismom (He has slipped the surly bonds of Earth...)
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