March 28, 2009

  • [Continued from 25th]

    Speaking of bridges, I got the latest scoop today [referring to yesterday, Friday] on what was sure to be the most excitement we had all day at work. Some contractors who were painting the bridges drove the crane-like structure atop their truck into a gantry (the metal framework that supports signs + other devices, looks like a square shaped upside down U --> n) and rammed it into two pieces collapsing onto the 6 lanes of traffic below during lunch time.
    Traffic had to be stopped in both directions for almost 7 hours.

    So to recreate this for you guys, picture the one above, falling and looking like the tiny one below. I know it is hard to see anything so use some imagination.
    The bottom pic was the actual picture. It is so small because the crappy camera was all the way at the top of the bridge looking downwards.