Submerged MO 13 Kimberling City bridge

[bugo]

http://sueandersenrealty.com/flood2008/index_files/page0006.htm

There are some pictures showing the bridge underwater.  The south span is gone, but the north span and the approach pony is still there.  The through span has warped quite a bit and many of the structural members are now gone.  I wonder if the other through span is underneath the lake?



Creepy as hell.

[agentsteel53]

how were those pictures taken?  sonar?

[Brian556]

I'm thinking it's really not warped like that, and that is just an effect of the sonar.

[mcdonaat]

Creepy indeed.

[US71]

I wonder if anyone has ever looked for the old US 62/North Fork River Bridge (now part of Lake Norfork)?

[mgk920]

The south span appears to be there, its collapsed debris is beside the support column and on the lakebed.  The image also appears to be a bit compressed lengthwise.  (The dam that creates this lake is immediately upstream from Branson, MO.)

Totally fascinating in that it is described in the attached link that the lake filled in about three days during a flash-flooding event and that the dam was not even complete when that happened. That flood set back completion of the dam structure by about a year.  Engineers had predicted that it would take about three years for the lake to fill.

The one thing that I will say about this is 'DAM!'



Mike