Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
....
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)

6:54

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:
- show quoted text -
My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)

——

Could very well be. It’d be interesting to see what the cement tests out to be...

On 3/15/2018 7:54 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)



One news report I heard was that they were doing stress tests on it.
Kinda dumb with heavy traffic driving under it.

Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/15/2018 7:54 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)



One news report I heard was that they were doing stress tests on it.
Kinda dumb with heavy traffic driving under it.


I didn't hear about any equipment on the bridge. I saw that they were
built off-site and set into place in sections.

On 3/15/2018 8:10 PM, Alex wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/15/2018 7:54 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years.Â* It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day.Â* Engineering screw up?Â* Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)



One news report I heard was that they were doing stress tests on it.
Kinda dumb with heavy traffic driving under it.


I didn't hear about any equipment on the bridge.Â* I saw that they were
built off-site and set into place in sections.

The news report said they were doing stress tests *after* it was put in
place. But, you know how the news is. Everyone's trying to get an
"exclusive" and half the time the news is dead wrong.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:01:35 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/15/2018 7:54 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Mr. Luddite

Terrible ... whatever the cause is.

Just heard that it was designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane and last
for at least 100 years. It was pre-stressed to handle enormous loads.

It lasted one day. Engineering screw up? Construction screw up?

7 people are dead ... more injured.
...
And it’s claim is to be a “feat of engineering?�


My wife's bet is they guess wrong about how cold it is here and they
tried to put a load on green* concrete. (*not properly cured)



One news report I heard was that they were doing stress tests on it.
Kinda dumb with heavy traffic driving under it.

I heard that too and that is a 0 dark 30 thing. They should not be
doing any rigging or testing without closing the road below. They even
close the interstate here when they are swinging bridge members over
the road.
The people in Miami do have a bad reputation for doing dumb things
tho. They have a new high speed train on a piece of track with grade
crossings about every mile. Needless to say deaths are getting to be a
regular thing.

- show quoted text -
I heard that too and that is a 0 dark 30 thing. They should not be
doing any rigging or testing without closing the road below. They even
close the interstate here when they are swinging bridge members over
the road.
The people in Miami do have a bad reputation for doing dumb things
tho. They have a new high speed train on a piece of track with grade
crossings about every mile. Needless to say deaths are getting to be a
regular thing.
....

Maybe it was a new study to see what’d actually happen if it DID fall in?