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re: Have you ever been scared driving over a bridge?
Posted on 5/1/15 at 6:41 pm to DirtyE
Posted on 5/1/15 at 6:41 pm to DirtyE
Riding over two telephone polls spanning a 10 foot drop is interesting. We had a crossing like that at the old Star Hill property in St Francisville.
Fell off a similar road board bridge. It was wet and the front tires slid off. The rear end was swinging around and tipping the Jeep over as I tried to back up the hill off the bridge. So I just drove the rear tire into the middle as well. Tried to just power across but not enough traction in the muck with the weight of the Jeep on the other right side road board.
The pass side off the axles were on the one side of the bridge and the tires sunk in the muck between the two boards spanning the crossing. My son looked at me and said, "I think were stuck." Lol. Luckily there was a tree within about 40 feet. If I didn't have a snatch block I would've been there a while. 8000 lbs wasn't cutting it. 16,000 did the trick, but it was a slow pull.
Fell off a similar road board bridge. It was wet and the front tires slid off. The rear end was swinging around and tipping the Jeep over as I tried to back up the hill off the bridge. So I just drove the rear tire into the middle as well. Tried to just power across but not enough traction in the muck with the weight of the Jeep on the other right side road board.
The pass side off the axles were on the one side of the bridge and the tires sunk in the muck between the two boards spanning the crossing. My son looked at me and said, "I think were stuck." Lol. Luckily there was a tree within about 40 feet. If I didn't have a snatch block I would've been there a while. 8000 lbs wasn't cutting it. 16,000 did the trick, but it was a slow pull.
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Posted on 5/1/15 at 6:47 pm to DirtyE
This scared me a bit driving between Buffalo and Niagara. Not to mention if you go in the drink your arse is going over the Falls.
Ok well I'm sure you'd probably not get carried the 10 miles to the falls, but still intimidating.
This post was edited on 5/1/15 at 6:48 pm
Posted on 5/1/15 at 6:57 pm to cypressbrake3
Rainbow bridge, Port Arthur.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 7:03 pm to cypressbrake3
yeah. Drivers Ed 1995.
Mr. Burchardt, my driver's ed teacher says. "I need you to drive across the Huey P"
I had only been driving for two days prior.
Yeah, he had to use his brake a few times. I also hit the brakes hard at that part where it used to shift.
Such fun.
But now? No not really. Unless it's a wooden bridge in the country somewhere.
Mr. Burchardt, my driver's ed teacher says. "I need you to drive across the Huey P"
I had only been driving for two days prior.
Yeah, he had to use his brake a few times. I also hit the brakes hard at that part where it used to shift.
Such fun.
But now? No not really. Unless it's a wooden bridge in the country somewhere.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 7:06 pm to Napoleon
Coronado Bridge. This fricker gives me nervous poots a little bit. Not wide enough.
My mom goes into full blown panic attacks going over bridges though.
This post was edited on 5/1/15 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 5/1/15 at 7:20 pm to beejon
The steepness of the incline would add greatly to my uneasiness going up that Port Arthur bridge and could well freak me out. Especially if I have someone impatient on my tail.
Why in the hell do engineers build stuff like this?
Don't they even consider the possible effect on people?
Why in the hell do engineers build stuff like this?
Don't they even consider the possible effect on people?
Posted on 5/1/15 at 7:25 pm to High C
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Posted by High C on 5/1/15 at 5:05 pm to doublecutter I was literally so afraid of heights/bridges, that I made it into my 30's successfully avoiding driving over one. I still don't like it, and there are some that I won't take on now. Don't even ask me to drive in the mountains.
Interesting
Posted on 5/1/15 at 8:10 pm to lsunurse
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Every time I go over a bridge. Recently seeing John Oliver's piece on infrastructure in the US hasn't made that fear any better
I remember seeing a news report after the bridge collapse in Minnesota about how out of date and in bad shape most bridges around the U.S. are and that was probably a decade ago at this point
Posted on 5/1/15 at 8:13 pm to cypressbrake3
The i-10 bridge in Lake Charles makes me nervous for some reason. The most skerd I've ever been was driving over the Sunshine skyway bridge in Tampa Bay. It's a beautiful bridge but the one it replaced had fallen into the water before, killing a few people who were driving over it at the time.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 8:39 pm to cypressbrake3
Wtf is wrong with you?
I thought this was supposed to be about some singular horrible experience.
Anyway, driving over the bridge in BR during a really bad thunderstorm tripping balls. The wind was pushing us all over the place and as we hit the apex headed to PA a few transformers blew in the distance in front of us. I didn't know what it was at first and my buddy who was driving said it was transformers and I thought alien robots were about to kill us.
I thought this was supposed to be about some singular horrible experience.
Anyway, driving over the bridge in BR during a really bad thunderstorm tripping balls. The wind was pushing us all over the place and as we hit the apex headed to PA a few transformers blew in the distance in front of us. I didn't know what it was at first and my buddy who was driving said it was transformers and I thought alien robots were about to kill us.
This post was edited on 5/1/15 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 5/1/15 at 8:48 pm to cypressbrake3
Royal Gorge when I was in elementary school.
The gondola, with a glass bottom, was much scarier.
The gondola, with a glass bottom, was much scarier.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 8:58 pm to beejon
frick that Port Arthur Bridge.
Satan designed and built that, I'm sure of it.
Satan designed and built that, I'm sure of it.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 9:31 pm to cypressbrake3
I was scared on the Huey P once when I was hauling a load of appliances and another time when I was drunk and high. Long time ago and I'm glad I wasn't hauling a load while drunk and high.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 10:07 pm to chinese58
Really high/elevated bridges kinda trip me out...ie...the MS River Bridge, that awful bridge in Lake Charles. It's not incapacitating or anything, but I'm happy to be past them. I do hate sitting in traffic on bridges that you can feel move.
I think I might have a real issue going over that.
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Royal Gorge
I think I might have a real issue going over that.
This post was edited on 5/1/15 at 11:01 pm
Posted on 5/1/15 at 10:14 pm to Rebel Land Shark
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I was a little freighted the 1st time I went over the I-10 bridge in Baton Rouge that's about it
You would have a bad time on the bridge in Lake Charles and the causeway between the North Shore and New Orleans then.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 10:50 pm to cypressbrake3
No but then again I'm not a pussy..
Posted on 5/1/15 at 10:55 pm to TigerBait2008
Not really as i drive over i10 in lc daily, but when i was younger and the rainbow bridge in port authur that was posted above was traffic in both directions with no median it used to freak me out.
Look at the picture above and imagine traffic going both ways. Or those that have went over lc, imagine traffic going both ways and it only being 2 lanes, that how rainbow used to be.
Look at the picture above and imagine traffic going both ways. Or those that have went over lc, imagine traffic going both ways and it only being 2 lanes, that how rainbow used to be.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 11:21 pm to Sentrius
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You would have a bad time on the bridge in Lake Charles and the causeway between the North Shore and New Orleans then
I drive across them with white knuckles. Scary stuff.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 11:25 pm to Pinecone Repair
Only time I really got freaked out on a "bridge" was one of those really really high sweeping overpasses/exchanges in Texas somewhere around Austin. I was kinda stoned though so that may have done it.
Posted on 5/1/15 at 11:52 pm to beejon
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Rainbow bridge, Port Arthur.
Grew up in Beaumont. Went over that bridge in a school bus to a track meet one time. Bus was chugging at 5 mph at the top.....we were actually going to lunch so had to cross back over to Bridge City where the meet was. Coach tried to let a gap develop between us and the car ahead so he could get up to 70 mph at the bottom.....car came around us and the slowed to 30......bus was chugging at about 1mph at the top.....I hate bridges.
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