I64 BRIDGE CLOSED NOW IN BOTH DIRECTIONS DUE TO CRACKS! NEW MADRID ABOUT TO UNLEASH ITS FURY?!

Decaying infrastructure and massive flooding on the Mississippi this past spring/summer. Upside is that we now have some infrastructure to repair which equals jobs.

I should hope you haven't either.

Calm down, you guys! You may BOTH be right!! Perhaps the New Madrid didn't CAUSE the cracks, but even slight shaking can't be good for concrete which is supposed to stay rigid!

At the same time, having a major bridge shut down at a time when an evacuation could conceivably be necessary, doesn't that "feel" like it could be a piece of a "perfect storm"? Granted, the bridge is old, but so are a lot of other bridges. So why HERE, why NOW?

Remember, there ARE no co-incidences.....

Please do not confuse GLP'ers with facts and logic.

I remain calm at all times.




Z

The New Madrid fault system, or the New Madrid seismic zone, is a series of faults beneath the continental crust in a weak spot known as the Reelfoot Rift. It cannot be seen on the surface.

The fault system extends 150 miles southward from Cairo, Illinois through New Madrid and Caruthersville, Missouri, down through Blytheville, Arkansas to Marked Tree, Arkansas.

It dips into Kentucky near Fulton and into Tennessee near Reelfoot Lake, and extends southeast to Dyersburg, Tennessee. It crosses five state lines, and crosses the Mississippi River in at least three places.

[link to www.ceri.memphis.edu]

Now look at this map of earthquakes in the area in the past 6 months

[link to www.ceri.memphis.edu]

Hi Miggy! You know, I had wondered about that myself. But it IS true that OK has been experiencing more noticeable earthquakes lately, at least according to the threads here.

It has occurred to me that the Earth (meaning the foundational rock structure) is most likely porous, (not solid), and has many underground caves and tunnels which may have been full of water or oil etc. Now that there are so many more people, and especially in a desert-type area where the wells need to be really deep, maybe that water is being pumped out faster than it can re-fill leaving hollow spots. Seems like those spots would ring like a bell if there were a huge earthquake further East.

So yes, I could see where you WOULD be affected by the New Madrid. Considering that they are still finding faultlines which they never before knew existed, it wouldn't surprise me to discover that the whole CONTINENT could be affected by the New Madrid's letting loose!!

Hm,...

That seems enough shaking to challenge the integrity of several old bridges in the area.





Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 09/10/2011 02:44 PM

Yes it is the wisest thing to do by approximate safety weight limits according to the design of any structure..

And the age of the construction VS the weight of average vehicles that load the structure in current times..

And now factor in the uneven wgt distribution on top of non-flowing traffic jamming and remaining with weights that may indeed go over the safety amount.....

Now consider that the precise time of jamming comes in the advent of a natural disaster striking many years after the A-OK for App.Wgt. capacity.....this is the worst time to jam it and the absolute guaranteed time it will occur...chaos..hysteria...flight is the response to something a human can not stand up to not fight..


Now consider how Gov...and rescue & aid workers will be able to respond when their routes are disabled...

Now consider which is the most rewarding..healthy tax payers..working citizens...responsible people that give assistance when needed to help them selves ...help maintain others....help repair and prevent further losses and devastation....

Or incapacitated people left to be of no help even for themselves. And to add salt to wounds when people are incapacitated in and area that breaks out into civilian chaos. Looting... rouging.....vandalizing..flat out ravaging..


It is a good head who would make sure to secure the entry and the exit of such a point in even so much as just a possibility .....something like a disaster may strike..

When you see this it could be bad bridge find during routine inspection and no one willing to take the blame for eventual devastation stemming from covering up or ignoring the flat out safety violation......or it can be preparation for a spike in disaster possibility...either way it must be done and it should be done.

I agree. And that area is no where close to Louisville, KY

Take from this what you will:

What I now find from new energy readings is that those five Great Quakes which were set to occur Sept. 4-10 are being blocked by the Cabal's deploying its earthquake-engineering devices to prevent releases of those pent-up seismic forces on Sept. 4, 5, 6, and 7.
As a result the pent-up seismic force keeps growing.
My latest reading is that by mid-day Saturday, Sept. 10, the Cabal earthquake-engineering devices will no longer be able to hold back the massive release of pent-up energy within the tectonic plate underneath the Appalachians any longer.
And thus, on Saturday, sometime between 11 am and 2 pm EDT local time (more likely 1:15-1:45 pm EDT), a massive magnitude 10.0 Mega-Quake will occur.
Its epicenter will be around Federal Square, Petersburg, WV 26847: (38 degrees, 59', 49.92 N. Lat.; 79 degrees, 07',31.01 W. Long).
Corresponding Saturday Quake times in other time zones will be around: 10:30 am, PDT; 17:30 GMT/UTC; and 6:30 pm, BST.
A Magnitude 10.0 earthquake has never occurred before.

Read more here: [link to www.drboylan.com]

For anyone that lives in Louisville, New Albany it is a known fact that the bridges are old and need repair. There have been scandals involving half-assed contractors and more with these bridges.

I like the doom just as much as any of you others but there is nothing to see here.

Horse shit.

3:40 and happened yet.

You're totally right.
I'm amazed how things get blown out of proportion.

Do you think some on here knows what logic is?

This is quite a prediction! 3:45pm EDT right now...

...or even further with logical solutions like Liberal Democrat FDR's WPA, or The New Deal. That program not only got the country back to work as they recovered from Hoover's Depression...here in the US...but took care of the country. There is plenty of money for our people and their well-being and safety.

Just bring stateside a whole lot of combat GIs ($Million dollars a year) and some from any of the other 900 bases, and employ every returning vet for $40-50,000 with benetits.

Americans in America for America spending the money in America. Beats pounding sand in the desert, dodging the local "terrorists", with borrowed money from China. Duh.

Conservatives happy ... saving tax dollars.

Liberals happy ... putting people to work at an honest wage and strengthening their families.

Corporations ... NOT happy, so it won't happen. See Corporatocracy.

I used to drive across this bridge twice a day for a decade and can tell you it was poorly maintained. The damn thing is a rust bucket. It needed to be "Fixed" years ago.

karma 4 u

Look, I'm from Louisville; and this closure is going to effect a lot of Indiana revenue. For one, you have Horseshoe Casino near New Albany; which probably 3/4 of attendees come from Louisville. Id say that most of those people won't bother with the major hassle of going on I-65 or 2nd street bridge.

Nice work governor!

The bridge closing posted in news SEPT 9. NO FEAR, BUT
MAYBE OP IS SAVING LIVES.
GO AWAY TROLL

Oh crap! That's scary.

I'VE HAD DREAMS @ NEW MADRID QUAKES -DEVASTATION EVERYWHERE - LITTLE 'VOLCANO LIKE' ERUPTIONS ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE.
I LIVE IN HAWAII, SO NO CONNECTION.
DREAMS WERE VERY INTENSE.

GO WITH GOD STAY ALERT. B.O.B.
PS 91

PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

Has he been right before?

A lot of folks from Louisville. Someone should organize a meetup.

I'm from louisville, I can't believe there are so many on glp from here.

Yes, Louisville. We went to Huber's Winery & Farm in IN today... the traffic on the alternate routes are a nightmare because the I64 bridge is closed. What a pain in the butt!

I had some people come in my store from IN today and were telling me all about how horribly backed up it was.

I didn't say that the NMSZ ran through Louisville, but when it goes, Louisville WILL be affected. For instance, Reelfoot Lake was created from liquefaction, as a result of the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquake. BTW, that's located in NW TN.

"According to the United States Geological Survey, Reelfoot Lake was formed when the region subsided during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812.[1] Several eyewitnesses[2] reported that the Mississippi River flowed backward for 10–24 hours to fill the lake, but it is most likely that waves from the quake caused the river to appear to flow upstream. The earthquakes resulted in several major changes in the landforms over a widespread area with shocks being felt as far away as Quebec."

[link to en.wikipedia.org]