Roads that you have been on before disaster

Started by Roadgeekteen, April 18, 2024, 12:06:03 PM

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Aside from the Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans and Philadelphia examples, I've also driven on the parts of NC 12 in the Outer Banks that seems to get wiped out every few years or so.
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CNGL-Leudimin

Bumping this thread because of a cut-off low causing severe damage in the Valencia area, including A-7 through which I happened to drive a few days ago.
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NWI_Irish96

I was on IN 912 before its tragic collapse.
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hbelkins

I'd say a number of us have been on many of the roads recently damaged in North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Mr. Matté

Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on October 30, 2024, 12:56:35 PMI was on IN 912 before its tragic collapse.

As in the 1982 ramp construction collapse?

NWI_Irish96

Quote from: Mr. Matté on October 30, 2024, 02:29:08 PM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on October 30, 2024, 12:56:35 PMI was on IN 912 before its tragic collapse.

As in the 1982 ramp construction collapse?

Yes, I wasn't old enough to drive, but I remember being on that road.
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michravera

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 18, 2024, 12:06:03 PMWhat roads/bridges have you been on that no longer exist due to a disaster/collapse? For me, the only one I can think of is I-95 in Philly before the collapse. I've never been on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, but I'm sure many have.
I drove on Cypress section of I-880 *the day of* the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

TBKS1

The US 64 Vilonia bypass and AR 365/I-40 through Mayflower within about a week before the devastating EF4 tornado hit both locations.
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Bickendan

Possibly over the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge before 89 in a family vacation, definitely after before the eastern span was rebuilt.

I-35W.

WA 504.

WA 501 river segment before it was closed from riverbank erosion.

I-5 Skagit River bridge.

Newhall Interchange (Northridge Quake).

Likely future one: US 101 between Crescent City and Eureka.

boilerup25

I-95 in Philadelphia
Key Bridge / I-695
WY 22 through Teton Pass

Roadgeekteen

I've been on multiple roads impacted by Helene, including I-26, but I don't think I've been on any roads still closed.
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dgolub

On the way home from the Harford County Road Meet a year and a half ago, I went to Fort McHenry.  Then, I decided to take the long way back around the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) over the Key Bridge.  I had no idea that it would be my last opportunity before the bridge collapsed.

Also, the Delaware Expressway (I-95) in Philadelphia and the Storm King Highway (NY 218) in the Hudson Valley.  Pictures of all three are available on my web site.

index

The Key Bridge for one.

Numerous roads in WNC/East Tennessee, including ones still closed like US 19W.

I-85 and I-95 before their respective fires and collapses.

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snowc

Quote from: index on December 21, 2024, 01:03:57 PMThe Key Bridge for one.

Numerous roads in WNC/East Tennessee, including ones still closed like US 19W.

I-85 and I-95 before their respective fires and collapses.
I-95 near Exit 73 got bridges fired so badly they caused almost a collapse.
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Road Hog

After I moved to Texas I crossed the I-40 Webbers Falls bridge in Oklahoma a number of times. It dropped on a Sunday morning so my typical crossing would not have happened then, but it was still chilling. To this day there is no trace of a new span. I reckon they reinstalled the old span with new piers.

MATraveler128

Since being in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, I-40 and I-26.
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Route66Fan

Quote from: SSR_317 on May 20, 2024, 05:37:22 PM
Quote from: gonealookin on April 18, 2024, 08:51:56 PMI lived in Hayward, CA when the quake hit the Bay Area in October 1989, and lived in Alameda before that, so I was on the Cypress Viaduct (CA 17, then I-880) a fair amount before that thing came down in the quake.  Also the old Embarcadero Freeway in S.F. (didn't actually collapse in the quake but was damaged to the point it had to be closed, and never reopened before being torn down).

When I was first driving, Carquinez Scenic Drive (briefly US 40 way back when) between Martinez and Port Costa was still open to vehicular traffic, so I drove that once or twice.  Not quite a "disaster" but it closed due to landslides around 1982 and was never reopened.  It's now a multi-use recreational path within an East Bay regional park.
I was visiting a friend in Hayward during the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Saturday before the Tuesday temblor, she took me up to Napa Valley for a winery tour, and we took a route that had us nearing the MacArthur Maze, where we got stuck in the wrong lane and ended up heading for the Bay Bridge rather than north on 80/580 toward Napa. So we bailed at the exit prior to the toll plaza, crossed the old Oakland Army Base, and rejoined the freeway on the lower deck of the I-880 Nimitz Freeway. I recall at the time thinking how I would not like to be stuck on that double-deck structure during a quake (premonition, perhaps?), though the particular section we traversed did survive a little over 3 days later. The major collapse occurred a little further to the south, along Cyprus Street (now Mandela Parkway).

During the event three days later, I had been sightseeing in the City, while my friend was working her job at Oracle in Redwood City. On the way back to Hayward, I stopped in Berkeley to see the UC campus (I grew up during the 1960s and remember all the student protests there). Though the BART train I took got delayed due to the breakdown of another one, I managed to make it back to Hayward to catch the bus back up the hill to her condo on Hayward Boulavard (just behind what was then still called Cal State - Hayward) before the quake hit and the World Series game was scheduled to begin. She wasn't as lucky, as she was on the San Mateo Bridge when the temblor struck.

But being a native Californian, she initially took it all in stride, even stopping to pick up some Italian take-out for our dinner after getting off the bridge! When she made it home, I was relieved and we proceeded to break out some wine, had our meal, and watched the local TV coverage of the disaster we were living through. After she saw what happened to the Cyprus viaduct and the east span of the Bay Bridge, she was understandably upset and very thankful that she made it home unscathed. I too was thankful, as earlier in the day I had been in the Marina District, transferring on Muni on my way to the Golden Gate Bridge (which I walked across all the way to the vista point in Marin County). I quickly realized I could've been stuck dozens of miles away from my friend's abode there in Hayward with no way to get back, and (in a mostly pre-cell phone era) with no way to easily communicate with her. All in all, we were both very lucky!
I went across the Oakland Bay Bridge in 1989, about a couple of weeks before the earthquake, with my uncle (Who was driving.), mom & grandma.

I was 2 years old at the time.

We were heading into San Francisco.

My mom has told me that she remembers asking my uncle if they have earthquakes in that area as we were crossing the Bay Bridge on the bottom level & that my uncle said yes.

Rothman

Hm.  Come to think of it, I crossed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for my first time in August 1990 (a few years before I lived in SF proper).  Remarkable how quickly it reopened.
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mrose

I have gone through I-40 and I-26 near Asheville, and my older brother actually lived in Asheville for about a year.

I haven't been over any bridges that collapsed, but I did drive over the I-43 Frigo bridge in Green Bay frequently, and they have had to close it a couple of times for various issues in the last 10-15 years or so. I haven't lived in the area since the early oughts.

JayhawkCO

I would imagine a great many of us have been on Bourbon Street.

Road Hog

Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 02, 2025, 10:25:11 AMI would imagine a great many of us have been on Bourbon Street.
I've dragged a sackful or two out of the Krystal at the foot of Bourbon Street for the stagger back to the Hyatt on Poydras.

NWI_Irish96

Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 02, 2025, 10:25:11 AMI would imagine a great many of us have been on Bourbon Street.

Have been there before, and was there the morning after.

One to add that a lot of us probably have: I've driven CA 1 in Pacific Palisades.
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Roadgeekteen

Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 02, 2025, 10:25:11 AMI would imagine a great many of us have been on Bourbon Street.
I guess that sort of counts but the street still exists.
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JayhawkCO

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on January 08, 2025, 03:57:50 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on January 02, 2025, 10:25:11 AMI would imagine a great many of us have been on Bourbon Street.
I guess that sort of counts but the street still exists.

Still a disaster either way, just maybe not for the road itself.



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