BlueHeronDruid wrote:
It was still daylight and close to the shore. Best odds for a good rescue.

BlueHeronDruid wrote:
Oh, my. I was thinking flooding might have been the culprit, but that just looks like simple structural failure. It's an old bridge, not really up to interstate standards. Regular inspections (?) should have prevented that.

Called son, but they turn off the phone after they put the kids to bed. I'm pretty sure they're OK, because they would have been on the island tonight.

BlueHeronDruid wrote:
Hopefully no one is dead and they can all laugh about this later.

OlderThanDirt wrote:
Pictures of folks sitting on their cars which are in the water.

Alexandra wrote:
That's on #1 Son's route from the Anacortes ferry to Seattle or Portland. There are a couple of alternate crossings, but they're both two lane and involve local city streets. I-5 traffic will probably clog both of them.

I hope there weren't any cars involved, but that's too much to hope for. Prayers for those who might have been crossing.

kurtster wrote:
Yes just saw that on local news. I hope nobody was killed.

kurtster wrote:

Oh lord........that's awful.

I - 5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state has collapsed.

Possible that cars went down with it.

RichardPrins wrote:

miamizsun wrote:


Violence begets violence …

ErikX wrote:
but what do you do for a living? kids? marbles? over or under?

OlderThanDirt wrote:
HAHA! Yeah, maybe! My mom was a JOHN BIRCHER if you can believe it! She thought there was a commie under every rock. It rubbed off on my older suister who now thinks theres a commie under every rock including Obama. Weird how that works huh? My physician dad was more moderate GOP and even voted for Obama last election. I took after him. A solid belief in science and common sense. But I have seen how far right the GOP has become and it is getting scary. Even Reagan would not be welcome in today's GOP. THAT is off the charts conservatism also known as Fascism.
My sister and I now trade emails every day about politics for the past year. She is probably the most RW Christian person I've ever known. But with my daily pounding her with the facts and guilt of her hatred she is slightly softening I think. It will probably take another 5 years to convert her. lol.

ErikX wrote:
I'm not RW or LW.I'm an honest,decent human being with morals and character who observes things,analyzes them and comes to a conclusion from there.

No further discussion between us is necessary.

ErikX wrote:
I guess it runs in the family.

bokey wrote:
Wow, you're starting to sound as hyperbolically brainwashed and sick as my RW nutjob sister. For the love of god, Obama is a moderate conservative, he's not even a progressive.

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I believe that the tax agency flap is about exclusive targeting of certain groups that openly disagree with the politics of the party in power. I would agree to a certain extent that it is a form of profiling, but based upon exploiting open non hidden positions. Different from profiling phyical beings who might pose a physical threat to other human beings acting covertly.

Profiling to determine covert activities has a legitimate place. You want to fly on El Al ? You will be profiled before boarding.

Everyone who has a FB account is being profiled and targeted by Madison Avenue, not to mention a host of other organizations. I would offer that what happened at our tax agency is profiling in only the broadest sense of the word. Vastly different from the pursuit of detecting criminal activities and intentions.

katzendogs wrote:
Hopefully the rest of the country is waking up about him.
I'm going to shut up now.

bokey wrote:
I'm feeling a vibe in in the woodwork dude.

Monkeysdad wrote:
Truly the most evil human in the history of the human race.His hatred of America will reverberate for decades,until "we" can fix the government.Fortunately I'll probably be dead by then.Like I've said before,I just hope I live long enough to see what his sentence will be(the jail sentence,not the crap he spews off the teleprompter)

As a baby boomer,I know there will be retroactive laws passed to eliminate as many of us as possible.When you can't even pass a budget,increase our National debt by a factor of about a gazillion,your intentions are pretty clear.

I am so pissed off at myself for voting for this animal and believing his lies,I suppose I'm just venting.Oh well.The truth hurts.