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Interstate 10 Is Closed Completely and Indefinitiely

Posted by khalling 9 years, 4 months ago to Government
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from my friend Keith Weiner:
"Interstate 10 is closed completely and indefinitely," said Terri Kasinga, spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation.
Rain does not take out civilization. For a clear picture of what does, read Atlas Shrugged."
SOURCE URL: http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/california-freeway-bridge-collapses-blocking-ariz-traffic/ar-AAdcnVB


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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 4 months ago
    I have noticed that the selection of items has decreased at Costco. The things I used to buy there seem to have disappeared. Same at Albertsons local market. I guess this is one of the things that happens as an economy is strangled by government. In Las Vegas, there are a number of Costco and Sam's stores, and there is a big difference already in the items that those stores carry in the different neighborhoods. It didnt used to be that way to this degree.
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  • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 4 months ago
    Gotta love how a few hours of rain can cripple California... People die of heat stroke in SF if the thermometer goes above 85... An inch or 2 of drizzle seems to put thousands in the dark... And people stand on their brakes crossing here into Granite Bay at night because we don't have street lights and they have no idea how headlights work.
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    • Posted by Ibecame 9 years, 4 months ago
      Here in Arizona there are a number of homes that were built inside of the washes that got flooded. The worst is in Wickenburg where it washed through several houses from one to the other. They are now calling this "The 1000 year rain" even though the same houses have been flooded out now going on the third year. All it takes is the thought of rain and people start acting like Lemmings here.
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      • Posted by scojohnson 9 years, 4 months ago
        Fear factor is most of it...

        Notice that of the cars that were burning on the I15 freeway, no one thought to just drive on the shoulder or emergency lane and get out of there?

        Too many Sheople looking for the government to help or save them.
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    • Posted by $ nickursis 9 years, 4 months ago
      You have to wonder if some of this is not deliberate. And to top it off, wasn't there a huge bitch festival over having NO water? Come on, Californica, make up you liberally configured minds now.
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  • Posted by cem4881 9 years, 4 months ago
    Feeling a bit awed by this news. I traveled on this hwy back in the mid seventies on my motorcycle and crossed this bridge. Unimaginable back then to think it could be washed out. Looked so permanent.
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  • Posted by HuckFinn 9 years, 4 months ago
    Remember the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13? It was reported that bridge inspectors didn't inspect critical welds because they were covered in pigeon poop, and poop removal wasn't their job.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
      it obviously wasn't well inspected, but I can tell you in Mexico-where they often use inferior building techniques and materials, they'd be out there building a new bridge the next day. wondering if that's happening or everyone's waiting for a bunch of environmental reports, construction removal bids, DOT sign-offs. I'm sure I'm missing more....
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      • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 4 months ago
        You are exactly right. We've lost the ability to do things. When I hear that some minor improvement will take ten years I think about the Manhattan project going from theory to nuclear reactors and a bomb in less than 5. Or Apollo from sub-orbital capsules to the moon in less than a decade.

        I believe I saw the moment the 'war' in Iraq failed. It was on a CSPAN show when they were covering the new ambassador (or whatever he was called) visiting a gym full of Iraqi contractors. They were putting out bids for fixing the infrastructure broken by the war - power, water etc. They handed out sheets of paper and said fill these out and bring them back in two weeks.

        On camera we saw the contractors gather around him telling him that they needed the power and water now, they needed work now, they could fill out the papers and give them to him right then.

        They were told "Two Weeks". And in the next two weeks people tore down the power lines for the copper.
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 9 years, 4 months ago
    If thye don't rebuild, I would suspect UN Agenda 21. California has abandoned hundreds of miles of rural roads along those lines. They want peple stuck in areas,
    That song, about Winslow, set off a chorus of old guy voices at the local McD's here in Ohio just last week, as they all knew the lyrics when someone mentioned it. Love those AZ Route 66 owns, we have hit them all.
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  • Posted by richkinley 9 years, 4 months ago
    I've been to the "Standing on a Corner" park in Winslow AZ. It has a statue of a man and there's a red flatbed Ford parked on the corner. Smack dab on old Route 66.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 4 months ago
    One of my brothers went that way when he retired and left California to move in with an old girlfriend in Delaware just a week ago.
    He's lived near and worked in L.A. since the mid-70s.
    So he also missed the Big One after all.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
      is he a good brother or a bad brother? If like minded-he should visit kathywiso.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 4 months ago
        He is someone who causes my other three brothers and me to avoid talking politics.
        When I mentioned my son and I using an indoor shooting range at a place called Hoover Tactical, he looked at me like I was from another planet.
        He remained dead silent with the same deadpan expression when I told another brother I finally got that pocket pistol we had been talking about.
        But that libtard is my brother and I love him. Even though he is also kinda icky.
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        • Posted by 9 years, 4 months ago
          oh, one of not so good ones
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 4 months ago
            Not good for the Gulch anyway.
            Tuesday last week, he spent the night at that other brother's place in Hoover (out of his way en route to Delaware) on the other side of Birmingham and I brought my son over during the evening.
            My Hoover brother he gave me an AS2 DVD for a Christmas present shortly after I rented AS1 due to reading what Netflix had to say about some SYFY written by some Ayn Rand whomever. What, a philosopher?
            Later I told my Hoover bro' about my stumbling into the Gulch and my dino moniker, but that was months ago and it hasn't come up in conversation.
            Maybe just as well. He has a weirder sense of humor than I do and would likely be rubbing some assorted Gulchers the wrong way.
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 9 years, 4 months ago
    I almost got caught on the wrong side of that closure. I live in southern California and was visiting friends in Phoenix the day before the bridge collapsed. Drove back Saturday night. If we'd stayed over that night and planned to come back the next day we'd probably still be there.
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