Did not know that. Thought it was still ground based. Thanks for the clarification.Rapier108 said:Thankfully that is FedEx Express so it is going to less of an impact if it was FedEx Ground.Quote:
Memphis is the FedEx hub too.
i-40 bridge at Memphis closed due to crack found.
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Drove over that bridge last week.
Tex100 said:
Drove over that bridge last week.
Are you ok?
has the CDC blamed this on covid yet
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.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.
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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."
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."
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!
Duct tape? Naw, NASCAR would use BearBond.
If that is the one over Pontchartrain, yes I have, and you are right. Nightmare scenario.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.
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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."
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."
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.
Who needs duct tape when you've got 3 masks?
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.aggiehawg said:Did not know that. Thought it was still ground based. Thanks for the clarification.Rapier108 said:Thankfully that is FedEx Express so it is going to less of an impact if it was FedEx Ground.Quote:
Memphis is the FedEx hub too.
Much of what comes into Memphis for the FedEx World Hub comes in by air with a decent amount coming in by freight train.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
if you're gonna fix it, fix it rightBiz Ag said:
titan said:If that is the one over Pontchartrain, yes I have, and you are right. Nightmare scenario.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.
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.
Yep, we need reform big time. Our government is broken.titan said: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.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.
Biden's bridges...
Send Spicoli...
Is her handle really Mempho News Lady?
My money says she likes to party
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.
From TD again. A good question.
More shortages, higher prices, more inflation. Starting to feel like this.
When freight traffic and Mississippi River traffic is halted or slowed way way down, that will cause even more distribution problems for everything.Quote:
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.
More shortages, higher prices, more inflation. Starting to feel like this.
Drive over that bridge too many times to count pulling up to 45,000 pounds of freight.
Can't say I miss it.
Can't say I miss it.
Once patched a lower unit w/ JB and a beer can. True story.BQ_90 said:if you're gonna fix it, fix it rightBiz Ag 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!
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
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
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!
Been to Memphis a few times. Mostly for bowl games. Wasn't all that impressed, frankly.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
This generation is full of *****s, just keep using it until the bridge breaks
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.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.
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,
"The absence of the word accountability is not the same as wanting no accountability" -unknown
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"You can never go wrong by staying silent if there is nothing apt to say" -Walter Isaacson
That ain't going to buff out.
Crack with a side of glue? Near Memphis? Yeah, baby!
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."
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."
Just slap some bondo on it.
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