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Breaking: Major Freeway Bridge Collapse in Washington State

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))5/24/2013 5:14:07 am PDT

re: #177 Targetpractice

Ah yes, “Galloping Girdy,” the example to this day of how not to design a suspension bridge.

It was not limited to suspension bridges, during the Civil War, soldiers were ordered not to march in step across pontoon bridges to keep them from oscillating and collapsing.