[thechat] Coronado bay bridge (was: Time travel exists)

[spinhead]

Heading over to see the topside right now (we cross it both ways every day;
up the Strand and across to Del Mar in the morning, then back again at
night.)

I'm sincerely hoping that if I ever see the underside again, it will be from
a boat, not my son's Kia Sportage.

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Crawford" <jcrawford at avencom.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [thechat] Coronado bay bridge (was: Time travel exists)


> spinhead wrote:
> > 'sbeen years since I saw the underside of the bridge. As I recall, on
the
> > last occasion my father and I were being swamped in his little sailboat
by a
> > big navy behemoth. Looking at the pics on that page, I could still here
him
> > yelling "You're gonna have to bail faster than THAT!"
>
> Well, it's still here. :-) Come on down!
>
> I actually can walk out the office here and see the top of the arc of
> the bridge.
>
> It apparently was designed to, in the event of attack, easily be cleared
> from the harbor (the bridge segments float or something?) to allow
> ingress and egress of the warships.
>
> I really *do* need to listen to some Digital Underground.
>
> - joe "talking a lot, but not saying anything" c. <http://artlung.com/>
>
>