Tacoma's Queen V's 30 Car Icy 520 Floating Bridge Crash

I saw that which you see here this morning on Facebook, via Tacoma's Queen V.

An extreme variant of our popular patented series of blogging about something we see online about something happening in my old home zone of Washington that I would not expect to see happening in my current home zone of Texas, usually not expecting to see such a thing in the area of Texas known as Fort Worth.

In this case we are looking at a photo from yesterday's 30 car icy crash on the 520 Floating Bridge over Lake Washington.

That is the bridge which connects Seattle with Bill Gates' neighborhood on the east side of the lake.

Now, why would we not be seeing this type thing happening in Fort Worth, Texas during a winter storm?

Well, first off, a bridge which floats on a large body of water is not something which could happen in Fort Worth, due to the fact the town has no large bodies of water.

Second off, Fort Worth can not even manage to build three simple little bridges over dry land, let alone over water.

I can not think of a third off.

And it just occurred to me, regarding the 520 Lake Washington Floating Bridge, which is the biggest bridge of this type in the world, well, this floating bridge was built and floated in less than four years. If I remember right the floating bridge building began around the time, back in 2014, when Fort Worth began trying to build three simple little bridges over dry land to connect the Fort Worth mainland to an imaginary island.

The apologists for Fort Worth's Bridge Boondoggle try to claim the slow motion bridge building is due to the complex engineering needed.

Complex engineering to build simple little bridges over dry land.

Unlike easy feats of bridge building, like building San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in less than four years, built over deep, swift moving salt water.

Or that easy feat of floating a bridge in less than four years in Seattle.

I suspect no local politician's inept, unqualified son had anything to do with the San Francisco or Seattle bridge building or bridge floating.

That and those projects were fully funded before beginning construction. What a concept...