This Is From Hurricane Sally

Thanks, sad but brings back memories. When you first see the video and that passageway is presumably needed for traffic, why not build high enough for ships and barges to have sufficient clearance to go under the bridge. One wonders why didn't they build the bridge higher?.... But then on reflection, memories go back a decade or so to severe rains and swelling/flooding of the Arkansas River separating Oklahoma and Fort Smith, Arkansas, with Interstate 40 freeway traversing the river a couple hundred feet above the gorge/river.... And another runaway loaded barge.... And of course nature wasn't cooperative, the loaded barge couldn't just freely drift between the gigantic pillars holding up the bridge and float down toward the Mississippi River. Instead, it slammed into the base of a pillar with result of a significant portion of bridge collapsing... If memory serves me correctly, the detour for the very heavy cross country truck and auto traffic to go around the bridge was some 200 miles of travel out of the way ..... Nature provides beauty, and sometimes misery, na matter the best planning of mankind....