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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Okay.... see ya soon.... :-)
I expect we can give y'all a call as we wheel through Tacoma.
But, please tell me ... 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.
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.
I think the wrong/bad/scary is from the one that already fell in the water.
Oh my gosh, it looks like the Bridge of Kazad Dum!
What?
When you lived in Austin was it when you still had to drive across Mansfield Dam on 620? It used to freak Aunt Cheryl out to drive over that with me. My house was on the opposite side of the lake from where they lived at the time. She just could hardly handle it.
No! That was the old one. The new one is gonna be okay 2J. No worries! Promise.
reminder: pack 2J a blindfold. :-)
Well, if you do remain calm, look all around you when we're crossing it...it is an unbelievable view from there. Often there will be boats going under the bridge and they look like they're a mile below you (no, not that far, but you feel like you're way above everything). Coming from Gig Harbor into Tacoma, Mt. Rainier sits way above the City, and you can see south down the Sound nearly to Olympia. Hope for good weather!
Oh yeah...that dam is aweful...I know just the one.
But this was just a while back, just this early spring on one of our fishing trips. You remember when the wind blew me over to the other side of the road? I came in and reported it in the Hole.
Well, this happened I think that next weekend. It gets really windy here in the early spring.
If you look at that picture...at the very far right edge, right by the water line -- that's just a few blocks from my house.
You know. Ruthy was afraid that I was gonna scare her by driving too fast. I told her she could drive if she was gonna be skeered.
But, I don't know what to do about this bridge thing. Maybe we need to just sit you talking to one of us so you don't notice we're bridging. :-)
I don't like bridges, really afraid of them...but I am sure I'll enjoy the sight of the boats and such!
What am gonna do...not come because of a little ol' bridge??
I emailed Chad.
Where is that place that he's stationed in relationship to you? Will he know this place E-9?
Don't worry...I promise I'll do just fine.
But when I was little kid, we used to drive over an old country bridge on the way to my uncle's house and I used to cower in the floor board! (pre-seatbelt laws)
I used to be scared of bridges. But driving over them hasn't bothered me for years and years. I still don't like to walk on the high ones. And especially if they're like some of the old iron bridges around home that have holes in the boards on the bottom! But, one of 'em is really fun to repel down. Do NOT ask me why I get jittery walking across it but I can repel down it. No sense there!
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