The Silver Bridge disaster
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2018
- How the Silver Bridge and the Hi-Carpenter Bridge differed from other suspension bridges in one crucial aspect.
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I was 13 years old when this bridge fell. My parents had to go out of town for a few days and left my younger sister and I with some close friends who lived in the same neighborhood. The man of the house was a truck driver and a good man. He had a delivery that this bridge was on his route. He ask me if I wanted to ride along with him and I was excited to ride in his big truck. The lady called my mother long distance to ask permission, but due to scheduling of my parents' return home, my mom said no. The truck driver would not be back before my parents arrived home. His truck was on the bridge when it fell and he lost his life. I was still at the house when his wife got the phone call and clearly remember her face going stone cold as she dropped the phone and fainted to the floor. That was a seriously troubled time for his family, especially that close to Christmas!!!
It’s so nice to see and hear my Uncle Walters voice again.
I need more content like this. This reminds me so much of old Discovery Channel and History Channel before it became all reality shows.
As a child I remember crossing the Silver Bridge several times to visit relatives in Ohio. My Dad would always say" ok everyone hold your breath and pray in silence that we make it this time". My Dad never did trust the bridge.
I am a Mechanical Engineer (BSME, MSME) with 40 years of experience and this is an excellent and interesting documentary! It's very sad to hear of this collapse and condolences to the families losing loved ones. At the same time, it is good that standards were established and implemented for inspection of bridges.
Aaah, what a pleasure - to watch a video without any stupid unnecessary background music trying to make it appear cool and modern but really only competing with the speaker. And the speaker in this one is so good as well, so easy to understand. Thank you very much film editor
"the silver bridge disaster's has a lasting legacy in Bridge safety" Which is why in 2019, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association found more than 47,000 bridges in the U.S. are in poor condition and in need of urgent repairs, but as of 2020 the US Congress has giving zero dollars to repair any of them....
Walter Carpenter was my high school Biology teacher. Later, I considered him a good friend. Whenever anyone greeted him and asked how he was doing, his reply was always: "Better Than I Deserve". As a resident of St. Marys for much of my life, I will always remember the original Hi Carpenter Bridge. And the new bridge which replaced the one which was closed, was opened to traffic the same week as I reported for active duty in the US Marine Corps, 1977. Mr. Walter Carpenter was an authority on local history and a good man. He is missed by family and friends.
My grandfather was the first person to call the police about the bridge falling. As he lived right beside the bridge and watched it fall. The police didn't believe him until others called in. His name is Roy Sayre.
This is the way to do a documentary: leave the viewer smarter after watching. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Here after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
My grandparents drove over that.bridge two hours before it
This, my friends, is a real documentary..... no guesses, suppositions, or ancient aliens...... a forgotten art of fact based storytelling!
I remember when that happened. Dad was sent down there to help recover those poor souls that died. He was a volunteer fire fighter on Mt. Carmel's North Union Twnph Fire Dept (lifesquadman)
This is a really great documentary. I like the no nonsense approach and the fact it isn't dumbed down but is still presented in a way that you don't have to be a structural engineer to understand what's going on. No propaganda, no bells and whistles, no unnecessary "pop art" graphics, just the story. This is a lost art.
Great documentary! This is the gold standard for how to make a proper documentary. And thanks for no dramatic music! 👍🏻💕
This is one of the reasons that certain load-bearing elements of railroad locomotives are never painted. That paint will hide otherwise visible cracks in the metal.
It is wonderful NOT to have irritating music and hysterical narration !
December 15th, 1967 was a Friday. I had been in Charlotte, WV at the DuPont Plant in Nitro and was returning to Athens, Ohio where I was a Professor of Chemical Engineering. I had left the meeting mid-afternoon after I used the company phone to tell my wife I was on my way home. and approached the bridge from the south. I recall that traffic was quite heavy with a combination of semis, dump trucks, pickups and many sedans. Traffic was pretty much stop and go. I think I got to the stop light at the foot of the bridge some a couple of minutes before 5. I turned right at the light and headed toward Athens, arriving home a little after 6. My wife came rushing ou the door. "Did you cross the river?" she asked."Of course I said. "The bridge collapsed an hour ago!" I may have been one of the lucky few who had crossed the bridge just moments before it collapsed.
This caused my lifelong fear of bridges. Hard thing to overcome when you’re an over the road truck driver.