What’s Blocking Bertha, Seattle’s 5-Story Tunneling Machine?

[Purveyor]

Filed by KOSU News in US News.
December 12, 2013

Godzilla is back in the news and there’s word that a massive boring machine appears to have hit something it can’t get through under Seattle.

Hmmm.

But before we get carried away about creatures beneath our cities or hidden chambers holding eggs that will hatch monsters, let’s focus on what we know about what’s happening in the Northwest.

According to KING5-TV:

“Transportation crews still don’t know what exactly is blocking the path of ‘Bertha,’ the giant boring machine that’s drilling the new Highway 999 tunnel under Seattle. The machine was stopped on Friday after encountering an object 60 feet under South Main Street.”

SeattlePI.com says “the latest trouble started … when Bertha’s five-story tall cutter head felt some resistance, then stopped.”

As The Blaze notes, since Bertha “is designed to tunnel through rock and soil without issue, it’s puzzling as to what could have stopped it.”

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. My money is on

Petrified sasquatchs.

[Adsos Letter]

2. Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

They've been under Seattle the whole time.

Film at eleven.

[FSogol]

3. Somebody get Jerry Bruckheimer on the phone stat!

[MADem]

4. Ooooooh, a crashed spaceship from a few thousand years ago??

Or maybe someone forgot to put oil in the crankcase...?

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Obviously Occam's razor demands one go with the simpler, more logical explanation.

[MADem]

7. Yeah~!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

5. So, would they say it had a "run-in"? Or perhaps a "run-around"?

Maybe a "run-down".