"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in
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(She usually thanks you for saying something nice.)

Bridgetenders are great people...

Interesting. Out of all the many bridges on the ICW, the Wapoo Creek
operators (one on the way down, another on the way up) were the only
ones that we had trouble with.

Doug
s/v Callista



What kind of "trouble"? I'd be glad to talk to them, in person, to
straighten out any misunderstanding you had with them.

Was the bridge stuck at the time? They usually get a little excited when
it won't lock back down. In SC, we divert road and bridge funding away
from where it's needed to Mt Pleasant, where the politician-lawyers'
mansions are, which lets the rest of the infrastructure cave in.

The old swing bridge at Main Road on John's Island, SC, has been replaced
with a 55' high span, now, because the lawyer-doctors didn't like to wait
on their way to the Kiawah and Seabrook Island resort homes. There's no
bridge tenders there, any more. The Stono River swing bridge is also gone
to a 55' span so Kiawah and Seabrook lawyers can get to court downtown,
too.