Showing posts with label Causeway to Padre Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Causeway to Padre Island. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Will Viola be able to cross again?

Took This Picture 3-16-2009
It is two miles across

With the disaster in Japan makes one wonder how safe we are?
Will we be afraid to cross to the other side, take a cruise to Alaska or just stay home
setting in the corner? A Few year ago a boat carrying steel, hit the middle section at the highest point and several cars fell with the section of bridge (I believe 9 died).
At home we have rivers to cross with banks to high for a vehicle to cross
even Plate River which had been channeled out so it would not wander back and forth with a lot of curves. There was a crossing in the old days just south of 36, where Candy Creek ran in to it, was a gravel bar crossing there the wagons would cross.
The same with the Missouri River When I was a teenager they straightened it and we went up on Wyeth Hill and watched them blow open the new opening.
Now with all the bridges I figure we would be cut off from every one and try thinking of trying to survive if a Natural Disaster? Could we do half as good as Japan?