Fire under Atlanta I85 bridge causes collapse. ATL will be paralyzed for days.

30 Mar 17 | RACookPE 1978

[Robert A Cook PE]

A oil or chemical fire, perhaps in a rail car under the I85 bridge in downtown Atlanta between I75 ,400, and I85 caused a section of I85 to collapse 1 hour ago. Traffic is expected to stopped for weeks until the elevated highway section is replaced.

[Lazamataz]

Zombies.

[Lazamataz]

Yer gonna catch a Miniball for that kinda talk, Northron!

[Svartalfiar]

Oil/chemical? Other stories I’ve seen said it was a pvc fire.. This would make more sense since pvc isn’t hot enough to really damage concrete.

[riverdawg]

” ... why they didn’t have an airport firetruck from Peachtree-DeKalb drive south on the northbound lanes to get to the fire with foam.”

Two firetrucks from Hartsfield-Jackson showed up and used foam to extinguish the fire. By then, however, the damage was done.

[Ozark Tom]

Back in 2007 a tanker fire destroyed part of the MacArthur 880 / 580 interchange, Interstate 580 connector. C.C. Myers Inc. won the low bid and completed the reconstruction in 25 days. Atlanta needs an engineering contractor of this caliber.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-MAZE-ING-His-reputation-on-the-line-2592154.php

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Anyone who has built a homemade rocket motor out of PVC pipe and H2O2 knows the energy is there...it just wants to be released.
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Probably are a few people around who have built homemade rocket motors, but I’ve never met one.

[Ozark Tom]

Want to bet warehousing combustibles under the free dry space of elevated roadway is a common practice? A ready made road-map for ISIS sympathizers to shut down a city by arson.

[BwanaNdege]

The lower floors of the twin towers collapsed W/O the heat of a fire being upon them.

They did have the cumulative weight of all of the above floors pancaking upon them.

[Cecily]

[SouthernerFromTheNorth]

In good traffic, it would also take at least 20 minutes to go from Hartsfield-Jackson to the scene.

[M Kehoe]

Note to self: Don’t drive through Atlanta now.

Note to self: Never drive through Atlanta.

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[dfwgator]

Atlanta has been a pain to drive in ever since I can remember.

For one thing, it seems like every damned street is named “Peachtree Street.”

[M Kehoe]

Ya know what I can’t believe? That there is a Grant park, and streets named after that scallywag.

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[CyberAnt]

Yeah, sounds typical.

Nice to see ya again .. how ya been ..??

I’m heading out of CA to OR in about 1 month .. I can hardly wait.