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sleepy

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Posted: 01/14/14 03:47am

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Normally "the end is in sight"... but Janet is getting more nervous... we have had several near misses ... having bridges fall just after we cross them... or a near miss

Three that come to mind, all from our truck campers view point...

The Skyway bridge in Florida in the early 70's (a barge hit the bridge pier as we crossed over it... a span fell behind us)

a section of the Courtney-Cambell Causeway between Clearwater and Tampa in Fla during Hurricane Agnes (we watched it in our side mirrors

and the Minn Interstate bridge accross the Mississippi a few years ago... we had decided to explore a side road turned off the interstate a couple of hours before it fell.

Janet hates bridges

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OMG.. another bridge...

As we leave the Ohio River Bridge we see another to our left... just up stream. It crosses the Kanawha River into Point Pleasent, WV

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Posted: 01/14/14 03:54am

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You can't imagine what it is taking... reassuring Janet that we'll be OK...

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Posted: 01/14/14 03:56am

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Posted: 01/14/14 04:02am

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If you remember... I wanted you to notice how wide the Ohio River Valley is:

It can flood completely.

When I was a kid the river flooded so often that cities had flood walls with gates to allow traffic to move about in normal times. The gates were shut during floods.

You can see some of the the walls in this picture.

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The bridge drops us inside the flood walls... so there is an escape when the river is flooding.

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Posted: 01/14/14 04:10am

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Like most of the towns and cities that we pass through or visit... Point Plesant is old... with some narrow one-way-streets.

Because of the confluence of the important rivers for trade and commerce this area has been important all through history...

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