Tp anyone curious: Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. The car itself began to slide from side to side on the roadway. I decided the bridge was breaking up and my only hope was to get back to shore. On hands and knees most of the time, I crawled 500 yards [1,500 ft; 460 m] or more to the towers … My breath was coming in gasps; my knees were raw and bleeding, my hands bruised and swollen from gripping the concrete curb … Towards the last, I risked rising to my feet and running a few yards at a time … Safely back at the toll plaza, I saw the bridge in its final collapse and saw my car plunge into the Narrows.
-Leonard Coatsworth, the last person to drive on the bridge and the owner of the car featured in the video.
There was a dog in the car when the bridge collapsed.
Poor dog
Wait why didn’t the owner leave the door open so his dog could get out?
I’m guessing he didn’t expect the bridge to come down, and letting your dog run loose on a highway is generally a bad idea.
What sucks is that he didn’t just run off, he tried to get the dog out but couldn’t get back to the car
The most expensive training video for structural engineering.
Is that Galloping Gerdy?
Indeed!
That bridge is now a habitat for a Pacific octopus, and there are now two bridges on that location.
Grew up (almost) in view of the Narrows.
I’m here for that jiggle.
