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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3417155" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>Scariest bridge I almost drove over? On Midway Road in BA about 35 years ago. I was with my older cousin and one of my grandparents’ teenage neighbors in the neighbor’s Scout. He wanted to go over that bridge, but I was having none of it; I was convinced that that piece of pre-Colombian art was going to collapse if a person walked on it, let alone a car went over it. That was pretty much the definition of “rickety old bridge.”</p><p></p><p>I’ve been across some tall bridges, but those weren’t scary at all. There’s a bridge in Yazoo City, MS that must be the only elevation change for miles around. I forget how tall it is; I was looking at a high-precision calibrated GPS altitude readout at the time, and I recall it getting up to 104’, but I don’t remember if it rose 104’ or if that was its elevation above sea level—but Yazoo City isn’t very far above sea level to begin with. The bridge on US82 from Greenville, MS to Arkansas across the Mississippi is pretty tall and long, too, but not scary. </p><p></p><p>The OK102 bridge across the Canadian could be a concern, as it’s an old railroad trestle converted to a single-lane (as in one, count ‘em, one lane, not one lane each direction), but even that one wasn’t scary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3417155, member: 26737"] Scariest bridge I almost drove over? On Midway Road in BA about 35 years ago. I was with my older cousin and one of my grandparents’ teenage neighbors in the neighbor’s Scout. He wanted to go over that bridge, but I was having none of it; I was convinced that that piece of pre-Colombian art was going to collapse if a person walked on it, let alone a car went over it. That was pretty much the definition of “rickety old bridge.” I’ve been across some tall bridges, but those weren’t scary at all. There’s a bridge in Yazoo City, MS that must be the only elevation change for miles around. I forget how tall it is; I was looking at a high-precision calibrated GPS altitude readout at the time, and I recall it getting up to 104’, but I don’t remember if it rose 104’ or if that was its elevation above sea level—but Yazoo City isn’t very far above sea level to begin with. The bridge on US82 from Greenville, MS to Arkansas across the Mississippi is pretty tall and long, too, but not scary. The OK102 bridge across the Canadian could be a concern, as it’s an old railroad trestle converted to a single-lane (as in one, count ‘em, one lane, not one lane each direction), but even that one wasn’t scary. [/QUOTE]
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