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

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Rapier108 said:

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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.
Did not know that. Thought it was still ground based. Thanks for the clarification.
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Drove over that bridge last week.
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Tex100 said:

Drove over that bridge last week.


Are you ok?
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has the CDC blamed this on covid yet
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ATXAg75 said:

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.
We need to get laws passed requiring clean bill options. One topic/law only, full chamber votes with out nitpicking. Military budgets would be another example. No riders.
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Leftist Democrats "have completely overplayed the Racism accusation. Honestly my first reaction when I hear it today is to assume bad intentions by the accuser, not the accused."
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Xiden's Amerikkka. Land of no gas, high inflation, anarchist riots, sham legal proceedings, border disasters, oatmeal, flower dresses, Middle East turmoil and no mean tweets!
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Duct tape? Naw, NASCAR would use BearBond.
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nu awlins ag said:

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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?


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.
If that is the one over Pontchartrain, yes I have, and you are right. Nightmare scenario.
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Leftist Democrats "have completely overplayed the Racism accusation. Honestly my first reaction when I hear it today is to assume bad intentions by the accuser, not the accused."
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BQ_90 said:

has the CDC blamed this on covid yet


Fauci to comment on it later today. In order to fix it, they have to vaccinate it, TWICE.
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Who needs duct tape when you've got 3 masks?
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aggiehawg said:

Rapier108 said:

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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.
Did not know that. Thought it was still ground based. Thanks for the clarification.
It will cause some issues, but only for express shipments being trucked into Memphis from the west. Most likely they'll reroute them to brides north and south.

Much of what comes into Memphis for the FedEx World Hub comes in by air with a decent amount coming in by freight train.
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Biz Ag said:


if you're gonna fix it, fix it right

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titan said:

nu awlins ag said:

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.
If that is the one over Pontchartrain, yes I have, and you are right. Nightmare scenario.


No, I-10. 23 miles of it. The one over the lake is only 29 miles, but you can take I-55 or I-10 to get to the north shore.
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titan said:

ATXAg75 said:

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.
We need to get laws passed requiring clean bill options. One topic/law only, full chamber votes with out nitpicking. Military budgets would be another example. No riders.
Yep, we need reform big time. Our government is broken.
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Biden's bridges...
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Send Spicoli...

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Is her handle really Mempho News Lady?

My money says she likes to party
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riverrataggie said:

That's more than a crack


Plumbers have cracks. That's a ****ing break.
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Both Greta and AOC are blaming Global Climate Change. The metal heated up too much and developed a weak spot. Now we have less than 8 years and probably about 3 months in Memphis proper.
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From TD again. A good question.

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The TDOT Chief Engineer said the inspector called local 911 to have the bridge immediately shut down as soon as he saw that crack.

My question now is why hasn't the national news outlets reported this? It's a bigger story than the pipeline hack.
When freight traffic and Mississippi River traffic is halted or slowed way way down, that will cause even more distribution problems for everything.

More shortages, higher prices, more inflation. Starting to feel like this.

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Drive over that bridge too many times to count pulling up to 45,000 pounds of freight.

Can't say I miss it.
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BQ_90 said:

Biz Ag said:


if you're gonna fix it, fix it right


Once patched a lower unit w/ JB and a beer can. True story.
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Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

Both Greta and AOC are blaming Global Climate Change. The metal heated up too much and developed a weak spot. Now we have less than 8 years and probably about 3 months in Memphis proper.

Fire can't melt steel....but Climate Change can!
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That's a very Memphis question to ask, haha... (I grew up there but I "got to Texas as fast as I could!")
It's a crummy city with an inferiority complex.. everytime something happens there with national news implications that gets overlooked or ignored nationally, they're so frustrated! And it really does seem to happen. lolz
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We just need to appoint more transgendereds and non-binaries.
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Squadron7 said:

Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

Both Greta and AOC are blaming Global Climate Change. The metal heated up too much and developed a weak spot. Now we have less than 8 years and probably about 3 months in Memphis proper.

Fire can't melt steel....but Climate Change can!
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joho said:

That's a very Memphis question to ask, haha... (I grew up there but I "got to Texas as fast as I could!")
It's a crummy city with an inferiority complex.. everytime something happens there with national news implications that gets overlooked or ignored nationally, they're so frustrated! And it really does seem to happen. lolz
Been to Memphis a few times. Mostly for bowl games. Wasn't all that impressed, frankly.
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This generation is full of *****s, just keep using it until the bridge breaks
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nu awlins ag said:

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.
I had to commute over the Huey back in 2001. Traffic always backed up in the mornings. What made that bridge terrifying was being stuck on it as a freight train went over (between the two roadways). You just sat there hundred feet in the air bouncing up and down. No way that thing does have stress cracks.

Note on the Atchafalaya ever going out... this effectively happened in 2005 with the I-10 bridge east of NO washed out during Katrina. The trucks rerouted mostly t0 I-40 and the traffic between Little Rock and Memphis was unbearable.

Back to Memphis, I hate crossing the I-55 or "Old Bridge" as the approaches on the TN side are diabolical as Hawg referenced,
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That ain't going to buff out.
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Crack with a side of glue? Near Memphis? Yeah, baby!

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They were probably too busy spending money trying to tear down Forrest and other Civil War statues.
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Leftist Democrats "have completely overplayed the Racism accusation. Honestly my first reaction when I hear it today is to assume bad intentions by the accuser, not the accused."
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Just slap some bondo on it.
 
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