This happened on a small county road where I live. The road was through road when I was growing up, but after the bridge washed away once and was severely damaged several other times, and the last time, so severely, that the road was closed permanently. The road on both ends looks like a tunnel due to the overhanging limbs and the sides of the road no longer being trimmed by the county road department driving down to the old bridge or it did the last time I was down there. There is ample signage on both sides stating the road is closed. There are two large berms of dirt and debris blocking both ends of the bridge too. The driver hit the berm, went airborne, and landed forward some distance on the bridge. It was only when he encountered the fallen trees near the other end that he stopped and called 911. The van is still there as the county and wrecker services try to determine a way to safely remove the van off Maxwell Bridge. The other side of the bridge looks much like this side with missing boards. This place was known as "Bridge out" when I was kid. They may change it to FedEx Van Road now. Who knows?
Add banjos and you'd have the setting for a good movie....
ReplyDeleteOr paint it orange, put a confederate battle flag on top and start telling stories about those Duke boys.
DeleteWe have a mountain cabin in an eclectic development that was platted in 1929. The county assessor has no clue when the 65 or so cabins were built, so he guesses at either 1905 or 1920-no way either could be remotely correct, but his guess is good enough to get the property taxes collected. There still are remnants of an old road going from the county road down by the creek all the way up to the topmost cabin. In quite a few places there are trees with 6-12" trunks growing in the middle of the old road. The lower section serves as an entrance to 4 or 5 cabins and then goes into a steep, forested section where every S curve has been washed out. Gurggle Maps knows better: it shows that section instead as being located about 300 feet away, right above a sheer 70 foot drop off that on the map shows it Tee-ing just off a newer road that gives access to half a dozen other properties.
ReplyDeleteDuring the run up to the '08 election there were democrat canvassers in the area and one was ashen faced then he encountered me-he had just driven the wrong way down the steep road above the drop off and could not understand why his phone showed a road that was not there. Told him "yeah, we've been trying to get the county to correct the map and they say they have been trying to get Google to correct their map". Run around city. The county maps-of course-incorporate the Google maps so the mistake gets duplicated several times over. What a shit show.
Anyone can submit corrections to Google maps, you don't have to be a county official.
DeleteThe guy was on the way to vote for Buyden, give him a break please, it is clear that he is not very smart.
ReplyDeleteThis clown takes STOOPID to a whole 'nother level!
ReplyDeletePull yer head outta yer ass, son - stoopid is no way to go through life.
Good thing this young punk wasn't working on the stuff *I* was handling at his age!