“How much will it cost?”
Caltrans sez - they must test the 2 adjoining structures first - may have to replace more than the single overpass section. “It’s going to be more than a month.”
I went by and joined the other rubberneckers for a look-see - woah! the pictures don’t do it justice. Looks like a JDAM strike took it out.
Oaklands Finest has a perimeter set up sealing off the area - no small task.
The good news - Caltrans is already at work.
Yup...those kinds of things look far worse in real life than they are on TV. I remember the Pentagon after 9/11...you thought it looked bad on TV until you saw it live...it was WAY worse in real life. It’s hard to appreciate the scale of the destruction from a TV image.
On the subject of fire and steel, you don’t have to actually melt the steel to cause a collapse. In a hot fire such as this one, steel can lose something like 90% of its yield strength. It’s still technically a solid, but it becomes very weak, almost like putty, and collapses. This is what happened in the WTC.
Oh, yeah...I almost forgot to add...IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT!!!