| Author | Message | ||
     Glitch |
Thankfully and incredibly no one is hurt. No one is really certain what started it. I-85 just north of Atlanta caught fire, it was so hot, the bridge collapsed in less than 30 minutes. | ||
| Slaughter |
HO LEE CHIT! | ||
| Buellish |
I was watching it on tv,that was some incredible fire!They store the HERO trucks under that bridge,there must have been a lot of fuel stored with them.It just kept burning and billowing black smoke. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I find it hard to believe any city would allow any fuel of any sort, to be stored under an overpass. Amazed and glad nobody was hurt. | ||
| Buellish |
I don't know that fuel stored there,just the way it kept burning it made me think that. | ||
| Froggy |
Some dashcam footage driving by | ||
| Etennuly |
So just drive through the smoke, it's alright!  | ||
| Hybridmomentspass |
"So just drive through the smoke, it's alright!" GO HIGH! Cole, trust me, it'll be ok. | ||
| Glitch |
Fiber optic cable was stored under there. Don't know how it caught fire. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Thankfully, I had already left work by the time it happened. My cell phone blew up all night, drivers wanting to know which way to go, how to get around it... I explained to them, "If your paperwork does not show a pickup or delivery address that is physically situated INSIDE the perimeter, then you DON'T BELONG THERE in the first place." It's not going to affect me so much as it will the small package side of our business. | ||
| Hootowl |
Lots of fiber optics are plastic these days. More durable than glass. | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
We have had a couple of tanker trucks in the last year fail at cornering One headed southbound on 270 and he took the 70 east ramp and lost it. He went under 70 via the on ramp was directly under the freeway. (Hazmat not aloud to take 70 thru C-Bus so the driver really screwed up) The second was on US33 on a BRAND new stretch of road and took the corner a little to hot... literally Sad to say he didn't make it. The reason I bring this up... I saw on the news this evening how long it was going to take to fix I85. I bet it doesn't take as long as the say it will. Both times this happened here, they dangled a huge $$ Carrot in front of the contractors and they got done way under the allotted time and earned huge bonuses. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I-85 had zero effect on my operations today. It's just a piece of highway that my drivers don't use much. I heard all kinds of statistics about how much more traffic the other roads were experiencing... I could do without it completely. Now, if we could get Alliance Ground Handling to load a truck in under 10 hours we could maybe get some work done. | ||
| Damnut |
It was only Atlanta's second worst collapse of the year........................... |
