Saw that which you see above this morning on Facebook. Instantly knew what I was looking at, as would most anyone who has lived in the Skagit and Island County area of the Puget Sound region of Western Washington.
I walked by this scene dozens of times when I lived in the neighborhood, passing under the Deception Pass Bridge on the way to hike up adjacent Goose Rock.
The water below is known as Deception Pass, so named because it is a connecting passage between two different tidal zones. When the differential between the two tidal zones is at an extreme it causes the water to pass through Deception Pass with great force, so much so that it is virtually impossible for a boat to go against the tide.
Literally.
Looking at this photo it appears that a tide change is underway, but not quite of the extreme sort. I have seen the extreme sort a time or two, and it is something you do not forget.
On my Washington blog I have blogged about the Deception Pass Bridge several times...
and
July 31 Deception Pass Bridge 75th Anniversary Celebration Picnic
The Deception Pass Bridge was built in less than a year, way back in the early 1930s. Built over that deep, at times fast moving water of Puget Sound.
Such may be among the many reasons I have found it to be bizarre to witness slow motion bridge building in the Texas town called Fort Worth.
Seven years to build three simple freeway overpass like bridges over dry land.
Touted by local politicians, and those building the bridges, that the bridges were being built over dry land to save time and money. As if it were an option to dig the cement lined ditch first, then fill it with water, then take even longer than seven years to build the bridges over the ditch.
Because, if it took seven years to build these bridges, in time saving mode, how long would have taken if a water filled ditch was in the way?
And how is it that these propaganda spewers have gotten away with that "built over dry land to save time and money" nonsense for so long?
Either the propaganda spewers know the population to whom they spew the nonsense is too gullible and stupid to figure out the claim is idiotic.
Or it is the propaganda spewers who are idiotically stupid and actually believe their bridge building over dry land to save time and money nonsense is factual.
Due to all the dumb stuff I have read the propaganda spewers spew I opt to believe it is the latter explanation. That they are so idiotically stupid they don't understand that which they spew is idiotically stupid. We have seen plenty of evidence of this.
As in, have you watched or read a J.D. Granger interview?
So, now that those bridges are open and carrying traffic, is the ditch digging underway?
It must be, because, way back when this century began, what was then simply called the Trinity River Vision was touted as being a vitally needed flood control and economic development scheme, developed in an area which has not flooded for well over a half century due to flood control levees already in place.
Surely if this is such a vitally needed plan a local funding mechanism must have been in place before the project began, you know, with the public voting to support a bond issue to pay for the alleged vitally needed flood control and economic development scheme.
Surely no town wearing its big city pants would rely on hoping to secure federal funding for such a vitally needed project...
July 31 Deception Pass Bridge 75th Anniversary Celebration Picnic
The Deception Pass Bridge was built in less than a year, way back in the early 1930s. Built over that deep, at times fast moving water of Puget Sound.
Such may be among the many reasons I have found it to be bizarre to witness slow motion bridge building in the Texas town called Fort Worth.
Seven years to build three simple freeway overpass like bridges over dry land.
Touted by local politicians, and those building the bridges, that the bridges were being built over dry land to save time and money. As if it were an option to dig the cement lined ditch first, then fill it with water, then take even longer than seven years to build the bridges over the ditch.
Because, if it took seven years to build these bridges, in time saving mode, how long would have taken if a water filled ditch was in the way?
And how is it that these propaganda spewers have gotten away with that "built over dry land to save time and money" nonsense for so long?
Either the propaganda spewers know the population to whom they spew the nonsense is too gullible and stupid to figure out the claim is idiotic.
Or it is the propaganda spewers who are idiotically stupid and actually believe their bridge building over dry land to save time and money nonsense is factual.
Due to all the dumb stuff I have read the propaganda spewers spew I opt to believe it is the latter explanation. That they are so idiotically stupid they don't understand that which they spew is idiotically stupid. We have seen plenty of evidence of this.
As in, have you watched or read a J.D. Granger interview?
So, now that those bridges are open and carrying traffic, is the ditch digging underway?
It must be, because, way back when this century began, what was then simply called the Trinity River Vision was touted as being a vitally needed flood control and economic development scheme, developed in an area which has not flooded for well over a half century due to flood control levees already in place.
Surely if this is such a vitally needed plan a local funding mechanism must have been in place before the project began, you know, with the public voting to support a bond issue to pay for the alleged vitally needed flood control and economic development scheme.
Surely no town wearing its big city pants would rely on hoping to secure federal funding for such a vitally needed project...
