Pretty sure they didn't think the steel was going to be that resilient. Its a far away shot, but it doesn't look like there's anything but superficial damage.
On Oct 11, 2016 10:47 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just enough nautical knowledge to seem stupid on the Internet... > My theory is that they were planning to neatly cut it into medium sized > chunks that could be reasonably lifted out of the river with a medium sized > crane on a flat barge and carried away. Severing the whole thing and > dropping it into the river in one piece would require a significantly > larger/more expensive crane and corresponding barge. > > Not enough explosives at the severing points, or an underestimate of the > strength/grade of the steel? > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> OK, mechanical stuff is not my strong point. But for anyone who watched >> the video of the failed bridge implosion in Little Rock, Arkansas, what >> were they thinking? It seems they rigged explosives on the arch and the >> bridge deck, both of which are in compression. It seems to me they needed >> to sever the cables, which are in tension. That at least would have caused >> the deck to collapse. >> >> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalDpReUaCs >> >> >> > >
