Shades of our own bridge disaster on the Mianus

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mianus river bridge collapse, june 28, 1983

Awesome tape showing it live. Watching the headlights of passing cars just before the collapse reminded me of the narrow escape of FWIW’s religious correspondent Brother Anthony back in 1983; driving home from Columbia early that morning, he crossed the Mianus, and two minutes?three? later, was just pulling into the driveway of our Gilliam Lane house when he heard the first sirens. Not quite a Bridge at San Luis Rey moment, but close enough to convince him to convert to Catholicism and join Mother Teresa in Calcutta.

Well, something like that.