--- Maciej Marchlewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if it was already mentioned here but > it's worth a > try. Take a look and don't think anymore wheather > you should > take your camera with you or not while going out. > > http://koti.mbnet.fi/~soldier/towboat.htm > > Maciej
Whoa!! Where did this happen? That bridge is going to need some serious looking-over. We had a similar, but way bigger incident not long ago. At about 2 a.m. on the Saturday after Sept. 11 (really odd coincidence) a tugboat pushing several barges of rolled steel missed the center channel under the Queen Isabella Causeway by about 100 yards or so. For some stupid reason, the lights on the bridge were off that night. The barges hit at only 3 knots, but it was enough to knock out over 200 feet of the road on the highest section of the bridge. Nine people died. The causeway is the only road to South Padre Island from the Texas mainland and was closed until December while Department of Transportation people rebuilt it. Meanwhile the DOT provided gas money for local charter boats to run as water taxis. The Island is a big tourist spot and generally a nice place for locals to spend a day, so this really hurt their economy. Still, it could have been far worse. And here's the pictures, courtesy of one of the local papers. http://www.themonitor.com/QIC/qic.htm Remember, that's a 200+ foot gap in a bridge that's over 2 miles long. Deb in (guess where) TX Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
