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Oh shit . . . . .
January 1, 2016 at 11:11 am
A contractor making some repairs unbalanced and overloaded the span near one of the towers.  Unfortunately, the bolts holding the hanger cables to the main cables were made of the wrong material and were extremely brittle.  The hanger cables snapped sequentially off the main cable in both directions from the first one that failed over a period of about 30 seconds, dropping the busy deck into the water, killing 11.


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Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:11 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:20 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:25 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:32 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:37 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:41 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Anomalocaris - January 1, 2016 at 11:41 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 12:11 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 12:30 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Anomalocaris - January 1, 2016 at 11:07 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Minimalist - January 1, 2016 at 12:36 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 1, 2016 at 1:29 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Jackalope - January 1, 2016 at 7:43 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by brewer - January 1, 2016 at 1:36 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Whateverist - January 1, 2016 at 1:41 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 6:47 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:15 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 1, 2016 at 11:37 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Angrboda - January 2, 2016 at 1:46 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 1:55 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by Autumnlicious - January 11, 2016 at 3:26 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by MTL - January 11, 2016 at 3:12 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 3:27 am
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 2:30 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 2:31 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 2:33 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 2:35 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 3:10 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 8:27 pm
RE: Oh shit . . . . . - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2016 at 8:31 pm

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