Advice for bypassing Skagit River Bridge?

n7bsn wrote:

Jarlaxle wrote:
Hmm...here's a question: why not see if the Corps of Engineers can put a temporary floating bridge (as used my the military to cross a river) up to replace the collapsed span until it can be rebuilt?

Trust me, Washington state knows floating bridges. They have built five (and sank two). I-90 crosses Lake Washington on one, as does Wash-520, Wash 104 crosses Hood Canal (a Fjord off Puget Sound).

Part of the first Hood Canal bridge sank 30 odd years ago, the engineers wanted to add generators as back-up power for the sump pumps. The pencil pushers in Olympia decided that the bridge didn't loose power often enough. Forgetting that it usually lost power in major storms, when wind was blowing waves over the bridge and rain added even more water...

In 1990 the I-90 bridge was being rebuilt. The pencil pushers in Olympia decided to save money by using the pontoons to capture the waste water from demolition (it was classed a hazardous waster). That worked fine until there was another major storm, adding waves and rain to the pontoons (which couldn't be pumped out, due to the "waste").

Having those two incidents in mind, I was LOLing in front of the TV the other day. Listening to the local talking heads discussing how we in the Puget Sound area have never seen anything this traffic affecting!