i-40 bridge at Memphis closed due to crack found.

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3:02p, 5/12/21
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The I-40 Hernando DeSoto "M" bridge over the Mississippi River is closed indefinitely, according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation, after crews discovered a crack in the structure during a routine inspection.
TDOT says the crack is on the bottom side of the bridge truss and the bridge will be shut down indefinitely. River traffic is shut down until further notice.
TDOT says contract crews will investigate the crack's extent and make emergency repairs, "which could take some time."


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Traffic on the Mississippi River has been halted going under the bridge as well.
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3:04p, 5/12/21
Great, just great.

And that's a pretty serious crack.
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3:04p, 5/12/21
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That's more than a crack
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3:04p, 5/12/21
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That'll buff out. We need to spend more on pre-pre school infrastructure.
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3:05p, 5/12/21
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Bridges are infrastructure
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3:05p, 5/12/21
We should be focusing on more important things, like transsexual rights or "free" childcare
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3:06p, 5/12/21
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that's break, that ain't no crack
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3:06p, 5/12/21
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Hunter Biden 'did someone say crack!?!?!?'
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3:06p, 5/12/21
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3:07p, 5/12/21
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Some offshore rig welder could fix that better than new in 48 hours for $10K.

The Feds will spend 2 weeks studying it and 3 months engineering an overly extravagant repair.
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3:07p, 5/12/21
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Holy crap. That is more than just significant. That's much like the Remagen Bridge after grazed by bomb, and before it went down. That kind of breach only widens under stress.

They were right to shut it down at once. There won't be many survivors of a span collapse into the Mississippi River --even if any survived the descent.
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 3:08p, 5/12/21
MouthBQ98 said:
Some offshore rig welder could fix that better than new in 48 hours for $10K.

The Feds will spend 2 weeks studying it and 3 months engineering an overly extravagant repair.


Yeah, but I'm thinking more to come, no? That's a serious stress crack in the steel.
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 3:09p, 5/12/21
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MouthBQ98 said:
Some offshore rig welder could fix that better than new in 48 hours for $10K.

The Feds will spend 2 weeks studying it and 3 months engineering an overly extravagant repair.
My daughter's boyfriend did that up until this year. Then he graduated with his BS in Comp Sci and he's now a S/W engineer with us in our research center.

I'll ask him if he wants a side gig this weekend.
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In reply to Cassius • 3:09p, 5/12/21
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Yeah, they do ultimately need an engineering analysis to determine why that crack developed and if there is a larger problem developing.
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3:10p, 5/12/21
Well it is a good thing that Joe Biden signed off on trillions of "infrastructure" spending of which may be a few hundred million may actually go to infrastructure and not bribes to the Democrat establishment and those on their Plantation.
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3:10p, 5/12/21
Nothing a little jb weld couldn't fix.
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3:10p, 5/12/21
They are very fortunate that they have two bridges spanning that river.
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3:11p, 5/12/21
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fortunately, a couple million dollars in the multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill was ear marked for things like this.. you know, actual infrastructure.
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3:12p, 5/12/21
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Looks like that "crack" has been there a while.

I-10 bridge in Lake Charles is next. That thing is a disaster waiting to happen.
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3:15p, 5/12/21
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The one in Lake Charles probably has had its share of sea storm damage too, right? Didn't it have a vessel slam against one of its pylons about two hurricanes there ago?
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3:16p, 5/12/21
The alternate route across the I-55 bridge is a bottlenecked sh*tshow on a good day.
A new reason to avoid Memphis.
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3:16p, 5/12/21
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Crack in memphis??!! What is this the 80's??
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In reply to joho • 3:17p, 5/12/21
joho said:
The alternate route across the I-55 bridge is a bottlenecked sh*tshow on a good day.
A new reason to avoid Memphis.


Looking at it on Google maps, it's blood red for a big stretch.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 3:18p, 5/12/21
Send a social worker with some flexseal!
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In reply to Cassius • 3:18p, 5/12/21
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Cassius said:
They are very fortunate that they have two bridges spanning that river.
Yeah but the I-55 one is over 70 years old and then narrows down to one lane, according to posters on TD.

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That one lane cloverleaf interchange where I-55 north makes the turn onto the bridge to go across the river will be an absolute s*** show until this is over.

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This is bad. That bridge is the most heavily trafficked freight bridge in the country. Now all that traffic will be diverted to the 55 bridge which was either built by the Romans or aliens, no one knows for sure
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Yes and it's a marvel of planning and engineering. The way it was the only major interstate bridge that narrows to one lane anywhere in America creating a permanent bottleneck resulting in tens of millions of lost productive hours was a true master stroke.
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It's 2 lanes actually going northbound. You're correct though when going southbound. I'd imagine though that being 2 lanes northbound would be negated from having that many vehicles slowing down to around 25 mph and turning to get to the bridge.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 3:20p, 5/12/21
Thanks Hawg, good info.

If I lived in Memphis, I might be at the store doing a bit of stocking up since the supply chain might be impacted for a while.
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3:20p, 5/12/21
We better get a real infrastructure bill passed to address this. Screw all that extra **** they are trying to throw into the bill. We cannot afford to punt on fixing our aging infrastructure in this country. We have been punting for at least the last 20 years. The I-35 bridge collapsed in Minnesota in 2007. We still haven't done crap in this country overall.
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In reply to fooz • 3:21p, 5/12/21
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fooz said:
Nothing a little jb weld couldn't fix.
This is NASCAR country. Duct tape that mofo.
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3:21p, 5/12/21
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That's not a crack, it looks completely broken and shifted.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 3:22p, 5/12/21
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This is bad. That bridge is the most heavily trafficked freight bridge in the country. Now all that traffic will be diverted to the 55 bridge which was either built by the Romans or aliens, no one knows for sure
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In reply to Cassius • 3:22p, 5/12/21
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They are very fortunate that they have two bridges spanning that river.
"The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution was never designed to restrain the people. It was designed to restrain the government."
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In reply to titan • 3:22p, 5/12/21
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Yeah, I think a barge broke loose during Hurricane Laura, and rammed into it.
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In reply to Cassius • 3:23p, 5/12/21
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Cassius said:
Thanks Hawg, good info.

If I lived in Memphis, I might be at the store doing a bit of stocking up since the supply chain might be impacted for a while.
Memphis is the FedEx hub too.

Here is where the break is located.

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In reply to titan • 3:24p, 5/12/21
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titan said:

The one in Lake Charles probably has had its share of sea storm damage too, right? Didn't it have a vessel slam against one of its pylons about two hurricanes there ago?


You guys haven't seen or been on the Huey P. Long in NOLA. There's a "kink" in it where when they were building it, one side was higher than the other, thus the "kink" to tie them together. Anything happens to the Atchafalaya Spillway bridge then you talk about **** down....please child.
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In reply to aggiehawg • 3:25p, 5/12/21
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Memphis is the FedEx hub too.
Thankfully that is FedEx Express so it is going to less of an impact if it was FedEx Ground.
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