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[quote user="cnwfan2"][quote user="dalien"] >"HEAT" may be the culprit for this collapse?!!!!!!!!!  After all, Minneapolis has had a week, if not more, of excesssive 90 degree temperatures in the city.Maybe next you will blame "Global Warming" for the collapse? [}:)][/quote]Gee,if you think I'm wrong,then maybe YOU should watch ICE ROAD TRUCKERS,on the History Channel,and drive a 80,000 pound rig,hauling a 96,000 pound load to a diamond mine,traveling only 15 miles per hour, on 38 inches of ice!!!!! Hmmmm...think the weather conditions wont have an effect on that?[/quote]Actually the ice is not a constant thickness. There is a risk of a fall through. I have been all over that show since it started and love it. Especially that Hugh, he is a Trucker I understand very well. I wont go onto that Ice, oh no, not me, done enough of that climbing out of Ft Bridger. Actually a little too much.It aint the loud creaking, groaning Lake Ice that youre driving on... it's the super sheer, thin slipperyiest sheet barely perceptaible to the eye that brings down the mightest truck, usually on a steep hill. I laugh at the big ice, but cower when the thin stuff is around.Not everyone gets the history channel. This is my last post about the bridge problem.My fear is simple. The media will carry this story and Jam it down our throats daily for 6 months to a year. First the incident, then the investigation, then the blame game and followed by every individual anywhere near that bridge on that day. UGH.Let's move on shall we?One other thing, certain hospitals in my area should grease and maintain those elevators from time to time. Those things creak along good to the last drop. I dont want to be on it when it does.Especially when the owners are pouring billions to build new facilities next door.
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