[Robert A Cook PE]

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.813385,-84.3662397,3a,75y,13.69h,81.2t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sUR840_sv2Uxh6E0m6QcsKA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DUR840_sv2Uxh6E0m6QcsKA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D334.15884%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

Should be a Google maps view of the cables under the bridge.

[FreedomPoster]

Long URLs like that really mess up page rendering on iOS devices, FYI.

TinyURL is your friend.

Same link:

http://tinyurl.com/kfmtwbe

[FreedomPoster]

Looks like lightguide (fiber optic) conduit. Lots o’ BTUs there, I’m thinking.

My son works in Midtown, he heard tanker fire at Piedmont.

I’ll be curious what the real source turns out to be.

I know someone who is pretty high up in Federal DOT, involved in hazmat issues. I suspect he’ll have an inside story fairly quickly.

[DCmarcher-976453]

It was spools just being stored there, I don’t know but each spool has about 500 feet of tubing and there were at least several dozen.

[ctdonath2]

I’ve seen the cables stored under there.

[FreedomPoster]

From the look of it, I think that’s fiber optic conduit, not actual lightguide cables. You bury and join the conduits, then pull the actual fiber optic cables / lightguide through.

A technical detail. Lots of BTUs in all that plastic, is the key point.