CSPAN Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse December 28, 2017
Someone was prepared to do. During the depression, the building of the Grand Coulee Dam works projects happening in the pacific northwest. Mid1930s, there began to be talk about creating a bridge over puget sound, which reached from tacoma to the peninsula. The bridge was opened on the 1940, after two years of construction. The tacoma narrows is also a bit of a wind tunnel. People working on the deck began to notice movement. An almost like airplane winds, lift in the bridge. Unlike just horizontal movement, began to feel a vertical lift in the bridge, especially in the center span. You know, ...