[Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?

[Paul Rumelhart]

I have no idea if there is a megaload scheduled to move over this bridge 
in the not-too-distant future, or if there is whether or not their 
engineers have inspected the bridge in question; but if there is and 
they haven't I am sure they thank you for bringing such a potential 
problem to their attention.

Paul

On 05/20/2014 03:41 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
> One thing, Mr. Dredge.
>
> The bridge you reference is nowhere near ID-200 or Lake Pend Oreille 
> (for that matter).
>
> http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/
>
> image.jpeg
>
> Here.  Maybe this'll help . . .
>
> image.jpeg
>
> That blue dot indicates where I and my iPad were when the photo was 
> taken yesterday at about 1 pm.
>
> Let me know if you need more help.  I have another photo and a couple 
> videos of the bridge in question
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
>
> On May 20, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:scooterd408 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Ken writes:
>> > Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting 
>> information
>> > from bridgehunter.com <http://bridgehunter.com> that includes 
>> results from a bridge inspection in August, 2012:
>> >
>> > http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/ 
>> <http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/>
>>
>> If megaloads are planned to cross this bridge, expect a lot of 
>> bellyaching from Tom and others.  If it's just people driving their 
>> cars over it who are risk of death and injury, expect no one to 
>> care.  You need to keep in mind that the megaload movements need to 
>> be blocked because their payload is intended for water purification.  
>> That's the real outrage.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:02:47 -0700
>> From: kmmos1 at frontier.com <mailto:kmmos1 at frontier.com>
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?
>>
>>
>> On 5/20/2014 12:57 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 5/20/2014 12:25 PM, Saundra Lund wrote:
>>
>>         What an asinine thing to say.  But, if we're going for the
>>         truly absurd, which both Scott and Gary seem to want, saying
>>         that a best case scenario for those objecting to the
>>         mega-loads would be a catastrophic bridge collapse is like
>>         saying that a best case scenario for those who worship at the
>>         2A alter is for more school shootings so that one will
>>         eventually happen in a school where a 2Aer has a gun to "take
>>         out" the goblin and hence make the ideal 2"A trumps all" case.
>>
>>
>>     Your use of the words goblin and catastrophic bridge collapse
>>     remind me of a new book title -- Raising Steam -- which is the
>>     40th volume in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of humorous
>>     fantasy entertainments.  I borrowed the audio book version of
>>     this title from the local library and used it to acclimatize
>>     myself to a new pair of headphones -- wireless ones this time --
>>     and was quite pleased with the performance of the audio performer
>>     Stephen Briggs of Terry Pratchett's text.
>>
>>     The relevance of this material to the matter at hand is merely to
>>     note that, unlike in Discworld, when it seems necessary to move
>>     very heavy loads across bridges that may be either non-existent
>>     or not designed for such heavy loads, additional calculations and
>>     engineering are strongly advised.  In this world, unlike in
>>     Discworld, solutions involving the surreptitious use of magical
>>     municipal assets are not available. Getting and applying the
>>     knowledge of the sliding rule, as one of the book's characters
>>     would suggest, is a prerequisite for becoming a master engineer
>>     and successfully solving such problems.
>>
>>
>> Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting 
>> information from bridgehunter.com <http://bridgehunter.com> that 
>> includes results from a bridge inspection in August, 2012:
>>
>> http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/
>>
>>
>> Ken
>>
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