To: Semper Paratus
In war bombardment taking out a bridge requires obliterating one or both of the bases, not the span. That said, how big of a pay load would be needed to take out the span? Still A lot!
Well on the SF Side the base of the bridge is not that difficult to get to, it's on the side of the street. Right now they are undergoing construction/reinforcement for earthquake stability so they have had them slightly blocked off by fences but a truck could very easily break through it. The thing that scares me is I see all kind of trucks driving and parked around it all day long, especially at the end of Spear st. which is a dead end street, a lot of them are rent-a-trucks too.
They are massive structures but a bomb the size of the Oklahoma City bomb would almost definitely take it out. On the brighter side there have been a lot of Fed cars driving around constantly, and I've seen them obviously following tanker trucks around. Another thing that worries me, although not so much, is the Oakland airport. A lot of low flying planes fly over the bridge, about 5 or 6 months ago I was leaving work and watch a TWA flight fly so low that at my perspective I was almost positive that it was going to hit the bridge. In the last month and a half I have thought of so many ways that one could destroy the bridge and I'm always looking out my window at the base and would immediately inform someone if I saw anything odd, especially now.
387 posted on
11/01/2001 3:39:35 PM PST by
Nouge
To: Nouge
That area you're talking about worries me, too. Also, coming up bryant street south of the bridge would be a place where an okc explosion could take out the structure.
the worst case would be someone taking out that center structure that divides the west span into two mini spans.
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