There are also some good stories about the US 90 bridges over the Pecos. I
don't recall details, but there was an interesting video playing at the
Seminole Canyon part visitors center some years ago.
Until surprisingly recently (after the Second World War, I think) the
highway bridge over the Pecos was only a low-water crossing. Then a steel
bridge, the old sort with overhead trusses, was constructed to be safely
above the river. Within a very few years, a flood on the Pecos left that
bridge covered with gravel, and it had barely been reopened to traffic when
another flood was so high it wiped out the bridge entirely. So the current
"high bridge" was built. I'll be surprised if it ever floods, but don't
underestimate Mother Nature. -- Mixon
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