Posted on 08/14/2018 4:12:54 AM PDT by PghBaldy
The Morandi Bridge has collapsed in the northern Italian city of Genoa.
The bridge, a part of the A10 motorway, is about 100 metres tall, Italian media say.
There are unconfirmed reports that cars may have been involved.
Photographs from the scene show huge sections of rubble on the ground underneath the middle of the bridge.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
I was going to ask if there are any mosques nearby. 😊
Genoa looks like a dump.
I don’t recall ever seeing a bridge built over buildings before. Italy has earthquakes so it doesn’t make any sense to do so.
Prayers for all involved.
>>When a bridge fails it seems to me that it would not fail in such a catastrophic manner. One end or the other but not he length of the span. The center pylons everything is gone. It looks, to my untrained eye that it was blown up<<
That hasn’t occurred to me at all.
We should know THAT pretty soon this AM. Ay engineer should be able to determine that in a few minutes or even seconds.
For this kind of thing I have learned to wait until some info is available.
>>‘The missing section is dozens of metres in length.
The bridge has been closed to traffic.’
Gee pretty obvious the bridge is closed to traffic for a long long time.<<
I saw that too. Can you imagine: “The bridge, although incomplete, remains open.”
There were flashes at the beginning of the video.
Not sure what that was.
Lightning storms in Genoa today
It might not take a very big bomb if placed right to cause a tremendous amount of damage in a pre-stressed concrete structure.
Troo dat FRiend.
Darkness comes.
The pillars appear to be poured concrete. Concrete is only strong in compression. As soon as any side load is placed on those pillars, they crumble.
As to the flashes, my speculation is that like most bridges, they make a handy place to run power, water, and/or gas lines from one side to the other, so the flashes could be high tension power lines being snapped by the collapsing bridge.
Given the age and construction materials involved, I think you'll find that when the failure analysis is completed, it was a weakened concrete pylon that failed, not a terrorist attack.
From Drudge:
This report describes a storm as the cause.
I saw them too. I will believe it was a terrorist attack, until it can be proven otherwise. If the government says it was not a terrorist attack, then I believe it was a terrorist attack.
It doesn’t look like the incident involved any shots. Looks like bad engineering.
Twitter search of “Genoa” https://twitter.com/search?q=genoa&src=typd
‘Dozens dead’ after motorway bridge collapses during violent storm in Italy
DW News (German news) says 11 people dead.
Must have been a cat walking over the bridge during a thunderstorm. The resulting resonance can cause it to come down - or so I’m told.
Scary situation.
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