Sunday, April 29, 2007 |
11:09 - Glad I'm not driving today, though
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269118,00.html
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Hell:
OAKLAND, Calif. — A section of freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire, authorities said.
The heat from the fire was intense enough to melt part of the freeway and cause the collapse, but the truck's driver walked away from the scene with second-degree burns.
But... I thought gasoline didn't burn hot enough to melt steel. Why, they've been telling us that ever since 2001 (as Lance pointed out)...
Anyway—that's the same general vicinity of the Cypress Structure, which collapsed in the 1989 earthquake and ruined the flow of one of the highest-throughput areas in the Bay Area traffic map. This is right in the MacArthur Maze, the Bay Bridge/80/980/880 interchange, which is even more crucial. I think I'll be staying away from the East Bay corridor for a few months...
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