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sabconsulting

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Posted: 01/18/14 12:48pm

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Chet, is this your way of torturing Janet: making her read about her least favourite thing - bridge disasters - before you driver her over another one?

You're like me - I get berated by Sally for watching all those air crash investigation programs (usually just before I have to make another long-haul flight).

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sleepy

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Posted: 01/19/14 05:36am

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JumboJet wrote:

Thanks for the Silver Bridge pictures. I did a Google search and read more stories.

Thank you... that makes me feel good... that I got you interested.

I get out maps when I read books and Trip Reports... and now that we have laptops and very smart cell phones we can quickly look up anything.... fast, and usually pretty accurately. It pays to read more than one source if the information we want is important. Our (my) memeories are "failable". (spelling on purpose)... We tend to remember things grander, bigger, nicer than they realy are.

I occassionally see someone in cyberspace post information about something.... for example places to see and things to do in their "home" town. When we travel there we find that things have changed over the 25 years since the writer that we referenced actually lived there.

It's hard to believe that 1985 is a quarter of a century ago... isn't it? That the Viet Nam war has been over for a third of a century (1975)...

Places change, and sadly... often for the worse. Blight and Crime creep into places that we remember as nice. Urban renewal changes things to the point we don't recognize anything that we knew... we can't find our way around.

Most people crossing the Ohio River at Pt. Pleasent are across in less than a minute... if they were asked... they would assure us that they didn't notice anything... nothing at all.

And the bridge that I tell you about from almost a half century ago isn't there.. it actually disappeared completly in seconds. (Dec 1967)

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Posted: 01/19/14 05:52pm

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Posted: 01/19/14 05:54pm

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We decided to walk upriver outside the flood wall... the town is up againest the wall on the other side.

There seemed to be a well used exercise path...

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Posted: 01/19/14 05:59pm

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Looking back to the park... thats the Parks equipment shead on the right.

That is the official name of this State Park... not "Chief Cornstalk State Park" as I remember it from 50 or 60 years ago.

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