Crack closes interstate bridge between Arkansas & Tennessee
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee remained closed Wednesday after inspectors found a crack in the span, forcing thousands of trucks and cars to detour and shutting down shipping on the Mississippi River.
The bridge into Memphis was shut down Tuesday afternoon after the crack was discovered during a routine inspection.
Both states' transportation agencies said they would make sure the 48-year-old, 1.8-mile (2.9-kilometer) bridge is safe before reopening.
Read more: https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/crack-closes-interstate-bridge-between-arkansas-tennessee/article_bc3f51f4-d5c0-5b5f-900b-1161038117ea.html
Blocked onramp to the Hernando de Soto Bridge, seen from Memphis, TN, after a crack in the span forced the closure of the long under-maintained bridge, dating from 1973.
The "Pyramid," a former sports arena whose development was linked to the S&L scandal in the early 1990s, looms at right.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Their answer to everything.
Probatim
(2,459 posts)Do I need to use the sarcasm tag?
peppertree
(21,530 posts)Right up there with Snowgate and Pizzagate.
Gotta hand it to Repugs: they have quite the imagination - but, alas, for all the wrong things.
Imallin4Joe
(752 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)the crack is in one of the supporting trusses. No wonder the inspector was able to call 911 and get it shut quickly.
The I-55 bridge a mile south is so clogged with commuters and shipping, waits are at least an hour before traffic budges.
Considering how much shipping goes over I-40, this is going to leave a mark.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,029 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Look no further than Latin America for proof of that.
In almost any of these countries, to be descended from a Conquistador, Adelantado or Viceroy puts at the top of the totem pole from birth.
Much like having a large slaveholder in your pedigree opens doors for you in the South.
They're usually above the law and - just as problematic - often run most mass media in these countries, thus having a major say on who can govern and who can't.
Yes, many in Latin America's upper class are from 19th/20th century immigrant stock (mainly Mediterranean) - but the people with Conquistador last names still usually get the last word.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)howardmappel
(80 posts)Nothing to see here, all will be well, do you trust us or your lying eyes. Fucking rethuglicans.
peppertree
(21,530 posts)Even if that bridge had had THIS happen, they still wouldn't budge:
csziggy
(34,120 posts)For a while, I think it was back in the 1980s, there were a series of headlines about buses plunging off the sides of mountains, over cliffs, and so forth. I never understood why so many different sources used"plunge" for these accidents, but in my mind it was sort of a running sick joke.
It's still going on! From YouTube:
TOURIST BUS PLUNGES INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN
Dramatic video shows bus plunge off bridge
Bus plunges off cliff in Peru
And more. Yes, I know this is sort of sick, as I said, but the same words in headlines for over thirty years is bizarre.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Last edited Wed May 12, 2021, 08:15 PM - Edit history (1)
peppertree
(21,530 posts)Poorly-maintained, two-lane roads (if that) - and hairpin turns at high altitudes.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)Official (Bush AG Dick Thornburg) Sees No Crime by Bush's Son
New York Times, July 16, 1990
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/16/business/official-sees-no-crime-by-bush-s-son.html
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Sen. Prescott Bushs son and grandson would serve as Presidents of the United States.
Richard Nixon's Greatest Cover-Up: His Ties to the Assassination of President Kennedy
Don Fulsom
Crime Magazine, Oct. 15, 2003 (updated March 22, 2009)
Excerpt...
As for Nixon's stated compassion for the Kennedys, let's not forget that he deeply despised them. So much so that, as president, he ordered chief White House spy E. Howard Hunt to forge diplomatic cables to make it look like President Kennedy ordered the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. He sent another spy, Anthony Ulasewicz, to Chappaquiddick, Mass., to investigate the 1969 crash of a car driven by Edward Kennedy that killed the senator's female companion. He placed Sen. Kennedy under a 24-hour-a-day Secret Service surveillance in an effort, in Nixon's phrase, "to catch him in the sack with one of his babes." And Nixon pressed aides to plant a false story in the press linking Sen. Kennedy to the 1972 assassination attempt against Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Snip...
Back in the Eisenhower years, Vice President Richard Nixon and CIA agent E. Howard Hunt were principal secret planners of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that failed so miserably when it was later launched by President Kennedy. Some historians are convinced Nixon was a prime mover in an associated and also ill-fated plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. For example, onetime Nixon aide Roger Morris says Nixon "had been an avid supporter of the Eisenhower administration's covert operations to overthrow Castro, including the alliance with organized crime to assassinate the Cuban leader." For his part, Hunt has readily admitted his role in efforts to murder Castro.
For the "executive action" mission, potential assassins were recruited from Mafia ranks, so that if any of their activities were disclosed, organized crime could be blamed.
Nixon confidant Robert Maheu fronted for the CIA on the Mob plots. A high-end private eye (and ex-FBI undercover operative) who functioned in the shadowy realm between U.S. intelligence services and the national criminal syndicate, Maheu had performed previous "dirty tricks" for both Nixon and Giancana. Hoffa had also been a client of Maheu, who would eventually become the top aide to Mob-and CIA-connected billionaire and Nixon financial angel Howard Hughes.
Snip...
E. Howard Hunt, of course, went on to become President Nixon's chief dirty trickster and secret intelligence operative. In 1972, five Hunt-recruited former CIA men all veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion planning were caught by police while burglarizing Democratic headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington. Fearing that Hunt's role would soon be learned and the burglary traced back to the White House Nixon immediately set out to blackmail g an FBI investigation of the break-in. He had his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, tell CIA Director Richard Helms that Hunt, if apprehended, might spill the beans about a major CIA secret. On one of the original Watergate tapes, the president rehearsed Haldeman on exactly what to tell the intelligence chief: "Hunt knows too damned much ... If this gets out that this is all involved ... it would make the CIA look bad, it's going to make Hunt look bad, and it's likely to blow the whole Bay of Pigs thing ... which we think would be very unfortunate for both the CIA and the country ... and for American foreign policy."
Continues...
http://www.crimemagazine.com/richard-nixons-greatest-cover-his-ties-assassination-president-kennedy
And the rich got richer. As for the rest of the nation, like Democracy, not so much.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)peppertree
(21,530 posts)While open hyping problems and/or scandals that can be used against Democrats.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)As Monkyman1 said, it isn't a crack, it is a fractured beam. Go to 1:30 and at about 2:10 on the video to see a close-up:
peppertree
(21,530 posts)This is straight out of a Final Destination movie.
Thank you for finding this. Please consider posting this as a stand-alone video in Video/Multimedia.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)It is lucky this did not result in catastrophic failure.
Also, this member is known to be problematic in this type of bridge. The 'crack' was probably there for a while (look at the apparent corrosion along the failure plane). As a tax payer, my question is how was this defect missed in past inspections.
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)All Representatives and Senators from Arkansas are GQP.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat, is the Representative from Memphis. All the other Representatives and Senators from Tennessee are GQP.
That makes ONE vote from Arkansas and Tennessee that will vote for an infrastructure bill.
I will be interested to see how people from eastern Arkansas and Western Tennessee respond to the inevitable votes.
peppertree
(21,530 posts)I'd add only that Jim Cooper, from Nashville, is the other Democrat.
But that's 9.3 million people, with only two Dem representatives (out of 13 total).
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Just keep using it until it collapses. Only a couple of hundred people will die for the sake of the economy.
???
GQP always has more thoughts and prayers.
Republican Lt. Gov. suggests elderly should be sacrificed to save the economy