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Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:10 am to soccerfüt
I dream of a time when a major section of interstate highway isn’t compromised every week.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:31 am to celltech1981
Passed it this morning around 630 and it is still nowhere close to being open. Still tons of personnel out there and all of the wreckage looks like it has not been touched besides extinguishing the fire.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:32 am to LSUDbrous90
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wreckage looks like it has not been touched besides extinguishing the fire.
That metal is still too hot, probably.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:34 am to Napoleon
quote:jet fuel can certainly melt a steel flight deck...
Jet fuel and diesel are both similar to kerosene.
see enterprise and forrestal fires
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:36 am to toosleaux
That’s a really straight section with no merges or turns. You have to drive straight forward right there. I can see how trucks might have trouble there.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:36 am to jbgleason
quote:maybe they should do a six month study diverting 18 wheelers to I20
DoTD says they “don’t know when it will reopen.” They are concerned that the fire got hot enough to compromise the bridge.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:38 am to choupiquesushi
$50 to your donut this was caused by a car getting pissed because he couldn’t get around 2 trucks governed at 65mph. I know the truck restrictions on the bridge, but they’re rarely followed.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:50 am to BourreTheDog
quote:drove to LC two weeks ago the number of side by side 18 wheelers doing the rolling road block on basin bridge was astounding... It's like if I can't go fast frick you - you can't go fast.
is still closed between Baton Rouge and Lafayette
$50 to your donut this was caused by a car getting pissed because he couldn’t get around 2 trucks governed at 65mph. I know the truck restrictions on the bridge, but they’re rarely followed.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:50 am to BourreTheDog
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$50 to your donut this was caused by a car getting pissed because he couldn’t get around 2 trucks governed at 65mph. I know the truck restrictions on the bridge, but they’re rarely followed.
The speed limit for trucks on the bridge is 55 mph, 60 mph for cars. While the trucks don’t all stay in the right lane like they’re supposed to, the ones in the left lane are going faster than 55 mph usually.
Point being, if someone is pissed that they can’t drive 70 mph on the basin bridge I blame them, not the trucks (for once).
This post was edited on 8/27/19 at 7:53 am
Posted on 8/27/19 at 7:57 am to lostinbr
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Point being, if someone is pissed that they can’t drive 70 mph on the basin bridge I blame them, not the trucks (for once).
the other issue is the road was designed for 1950s auto and truck traffic.... what we have 50 years later makes the roadway incredibly inadequate
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:03 am to choupiquesushi
There are a disproportionate amount of Texas baws on that stretch rolling along going 90
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:15 am to choupiquesushi
quote:the bridge was opened in the 70s.
the other issue is the road was designed for 1950s auto and truck traffic....
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:17 am to jbgleason
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DoTD says they “don’t know when it will reopen.” They are concerned that the fire got hot enough to compromise the bridge.
yikes
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:17 am to biglego
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That’s a really straight section with no merges or turns. You have to drive straight forward right there.
Theres the problem
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:18 am to BourreTheDog
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50 to your donut this was caused by a car getting pissed because he couldn’t get around 2 trucks governed at 65mph.
Meh
Pretty sure the guy who originally posted about the multiple wrecks yesterday said cars, one of whom was speeding and driving like a jackass caused the original wreck and that the trucks eventually ran into stopped traffic.
Of course we know truck drivers have an issue with seeing brake lights and stopped cars more than a few hundred feet in front of them.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:19 am to CarRamrod
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the bridge was opened in the 70s.
People were probably stuck in BR traffic waiting from the 50s until the 70s for the bridge to open refusing to take 190.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:24 am to notiger1997
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Of course we know truck drivers have an issue with seeing brake lights and stopped cars more than a few hundred feet in front of them.
That’s how the daughter of Ragin Cajuns Softball coach was killed last summer. Big 18 wheeler rammed into a vehicle behind her, and that vehicle went through the back of her car.
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:28 am to Napoleon
quote:The average chemical formula for common diesel fuel is C12H24, ranging approximately from C10H20 to C15H28.
Jet fuel and diesel are both similar to kerosene.
Kerosene and Jet fuel A-1(which is 100% Kerosene) are generally about C12H24. JP-5 and JP-8 are 99.5% Kerosene. JP-4 is 50/50 Kerosene and Gasoline and is C-10H22
So you can see that, as usual, Napoleon is correct. There are significant differences in boiling point which makes kerosine more suitable for jet fuel than diesel or gasoline.
Heating value of diesel is slightly higher than kerosene so it should burn just a little hotter (probably an insignificant difference).
Not sure why I felt compelled to share that
Posted on 8/27/19 at 8:35 am to notiger1997
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Pretty sure the guy who originally posted about the multiple wrecks yesterday said cars, one of whom was speeding and driving like a jackass caused the original wreck and that the trucks eventually ran into stopped traffic.
This is what happened. The fire happened about 125 yards behind me.
Initial wreck was a Camaro rear ending another vehicle.
The Camaro passed me about 10 miles earlier and was flying.
It was raining, overcast and gray skies at the time.
I knew someone had to have been killed. The fire was huge within seconds.
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