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BREAKING: Motorway bridge COLLAPSES – dozens of motorists feared dead as cars plunge 100m
Daily Star (UK) ^ | August 14 | Charlotte Ikonen

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 ...


TOPICS: Local News; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bridge; genoa; italy; morandi; morandibridge
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To: PghBaldy

The Morandi Bridge was inaugurated in 1967. It is 90 yards high, just over three-quarters of a mile long, with the longest section between supports measuring 200 yards. Restructuring work was carried out in 2016.


41 posted on 08/14/2018 5:18:32 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: sodpoodle

Heavy rains cause a bridge to collapse? WTH?


42 posted on 08/14/2018 5:19:52 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Fightin Whitey

It even happened over a Viaduct - Why a duck? Why a no chicken ?


43 posted on 08/14/2018 5:20:05 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Only MS-13 and Democrats want ICE Abolished)
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To: Fai Mao
It was sabotaged by jihadi’s.

A legitimate assumption with all of the muzloids they have let in there. And you're right... until proven otherwise.

44 posted on 08/14/2018 5:22:01 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: 11th_VA; johniegrad

I need another coffee;) Misread the lead as a storm being the cause - when it just happened to collapse ‘during a storm’.

Getting old and sloppy - sorry.


45 posted on 08/14/2018 5:23:54 AM PDT by sodpoodle (an old female prairie dog;))
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To: Squantos; Chode; snooter55

Over here PING

Storms? terrorscum? HD Gravity ...

Any thoughts ?


46 posted on 08/14/2018 5:24:56 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!p)
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To: johniegrad
Heavy rains cause a bridge to collapse? WTH?

Storms also have high winds. Still, you would have expected winds strong enough to collapse the bridge to have done other damage elsewhere.

47 posted on 08/14/2018 5:29:28 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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To: mabarker1
Tacoma Narrowes Bridge Collapse from winds

It’s a resonance thing

48 posted on 08/14/2018 5:33:42 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Only MS-13 and Democrats want ICE Abolished)
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To: freedumb2003

Interesting. Like the I35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN there are trains and a river underneath the bridge. In the case of the I35W bridge there are (or were at the time) several images of many construction vehicles parked on one side of the bridge and some intensive structural work and large deep chunks of the bridge that were excavated.

I wonder if the trains have an impact on the long term stability of the footings/pillars.


49 posted on 08/14/2018 5:34:28 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The Left doesnÂ’t have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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To: PghBaldy

It wouldn’t be surprising if this was done along with a message sent to Italy’s govt: “Take the muslim refugees as you have been told to do or more infrastructure will fall. Refugees or death & destruction. Your choice.” Either way, they’re going down....unless they rise up and fight these bassturds with everything they got.


50 posted on 08/14/2018 5:45:36 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: PghBaldy

http://genova.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/08/14/news/genova_crolla_il_ponte_dell_autostrada-204085390/amp/

Has vid from part of the collapse.


51 posted on 08/14/2018 5:45:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mabarker1

It’s Italy. My bet is corruption.


52 posted on 08/14/2018 5:46:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

That’s what occurred to me as well.

People here forget that Italy is a nation where graft and corruption is a way of life.


53 posted on 08/14/2018 5:58:25 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: 11th_VA

“It’s a resonance thing”

A RE-Sounding experience ?


54 posted on 08/14/2018 6:07:17 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: mewzilla

At least 11 dead when section of massive bridge collapses in Genoa, Italy

https://abcnews.go.com/International/section-bridge-collapses-genoa-italy-strong-storm/story?id=57165004


55 posted on 08/14/2018 6:13:54 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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To: mewzilla

It’s Italy. My bet is corruption.

Impoverishment is more likely, brought on in part by a massive influx of foreign freeloaders.

Yes, Italy has its mob, but a long living parasite does not kill the host.

Recall Berlusconi, giving the muzzies train tickets to Europe.
Also, recall Oriana Fallaci writing about the muzzies destruction of Italy.

And NOW, they turn the boats full of invaders back. Rightfully so.


56 posted on 08/14/2018 6:16:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: 11th_VA
Western Civilization is falling apart …

When trillions of dollars of infrastructure dollars are dived to support welfare states home and abroad, it's a mess.

57 posted on 08/14/2018 6:20:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: PghBaldy
ROME (Reuters) - A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was likely to be “an immense tragedy”.
58 posted on 08/14/2018 6:23:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 11th_VA

Galloping Gertie only lasted a little over 3 months, and its problem was obvious almost immediately. The bridge in Italy has been there for about 50 years. If it was from wind, the collapse should have happened long ago.


59 posted on 08/14/2018 6:47:17 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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To: SMGFan

Fox now reports 22 dead.


60 posted on 08/14/2018 6:53:13 AM PDT by SMGFan ( .)
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