Re: SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE at 35 MPH
Any body ever go over a suspension bridge in howling snow and ice ?
I was living over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from the hospital in Brooklyn where my first daughter was born.
I must have drove that bridge at least a thousand times going to and from work every day. Fog, rain, snow but this day when my daughter was born i went home to shower and change was a long delivery. 18 hours longest day and a half in my life.
The sun was just starting to come up and it was snowing like crazy Dec. 11 1987, i mean a white out blizzard, and i was in a 2 door 72' ltd rear wheel drive car. I put like 2 hundrend pounds of sand in the trunk in bags and was ok i thought to drive i never got stuck but cars all over stuck in snow.
1 mph all the way to the bridge then took over a hour and a half to get half way over and then dead stopped on the bridge lower level, mid span, g-d was looking after me that day.
I was in the middle lane with 2 tractor trailer trucks on ether side of me, and the bridge was a snake, i swear you felt the wav and the trucks and my car all the cars where bouncing off the road. But when you came up off, the road shifted under the car so you landed left or right of the white line.
These 2 trucks how they never hit me is beyond me.
How the one nearest the rail didn't go over is beyond me. There was nothing i could do stuck bumper to bumper, was a old car so just as i was about to say latter for this and abandon the car, and walk the 1/2 mile to the other side we started to crawl over.
Talk about the pucker factor. It took me 4 1/2 hours to get to the hospital, normal 1/2 hour to 40 minute drive.
That day ice was falling off the cables and breaking windshields so on the way back the upper was closed, that was a nightmare also.
