Holy Grap!!! 580 collapse (and re-opening Thursday May 24th)
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^^^so instead of paying $10 to have a guaranteed seat...it will be packed by the time you get on and have to stand for an hour!
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Taken from the article says south I-80 to I-880 is damaged so i dont see how the other guy was wrong.
"The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic from the Bay Bridge onto Interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24. It draped like a blanket over a roadway below, a connector from southbound I-80 to I-880 that also was severely damaged."
"The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic from the Bay Bridge onto Interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24. It draped like a blanket over a roadway below, a connector from southbound I-80 to I-880 that also was severely damaged."
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someone cant take the heat.......LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL JK!
i bet the driver was ghost riding it turning tight ones ooooohhh
I never knew concrete melted (JK again)
i bet the driver was ghost riding it turning tight ones ooooohhh
I never knew concrete melted (JK again)
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Yesterday I went to the A's game and traffic from Sacramento was fine. I took 680 south to 24. If you were trying to get to Berkely from Sac you could go 24 to 13 and end up at the Claremont...
or you could get a helicopter.
or you could get a helicopter.
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Well, the Caltrans engineers disagree. They claim that the fuel would burn around 3000 deg. and that the steel is rated to melt at 2750.
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Taken from the article says south I-80 to I-880 is damaged so i dont see how the other guy was wrong.
"The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic from the Bay Bridge onto Interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24. It draped like a blanket over a roadway below, a connector from southbound I-80 to I-880 that also was severely damaged."
"The elevated roadway that fell carried eastbound traffic from the Bay Bridge onto Interstates 580 and 980 and state Highway 24. It draped like a blanket over a roadway below, a connector from southbound I-80 to I-880 that also was severely damaged."
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I'm not Mike Scoffield so don't quote me on this but I think most mechanical structures get safety factors of 2 designed into them, so I'd venture to guess you only have to heat the steel to where it loses half it's integrity.
And uh, even that's complicated cause different materials and different construction designs will be asymmetric in their torsional vs. bending vs. tensile strength etc.
Fail. Again, we need Mike Scoffield
And uh, even that's complicated cause different materials and different construction designs will be asymmetric in their torsional vs. bending vs. tensile strength etc.
Fail. Again, we need Mike Scoffield
lol, the woody show kept playing the clip from the view where Rosy said "i do believe this is the first time in history where STEEL MELTED" about the WTC and woody says... yeah... and this is the 2nd time... ahh man... that crazy lesbo.... but yea... the steel in the road didn't melt, if u look at the pics, but rather they just got heated up so much to the point where the steel could no longer hold its integrity and bent.