84-Year-Old Bridge Imploded in Ohio: VIDEO
For the 12-year-old in all of us, the 3.5 second implosion of the the Fort Steuben Bridge spanning the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to Weirton, West Virginia.
The destructo-porn of the day, courtesy of the Ohio Department of Transportation,
AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted Feb. 21,2012 at 8:56 PM EST by Andy Towle in News, Ohio, Transportation | Permalink
I crossed this bridge many times. Sad to see it go. It was closed in 2009 and finally demolished this morning.
Posted by: MG | Feb 21, 2012 9:12:34 PM
that is one BURNT bridge
Posted by: Dan | Feb 21, 2012 9:42:51 PM
Thank you, Andy! :)
Posted by: Blaine | Feb 21, 2012 9:53:21 PM
what happens to all the pollution in the river now?
Posted by: jcrew0813 | Feb 21, 2012 9:56:20 PM
Here's an 83-year old bridge that needs similar treatment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Bridge
Posted by: Hue-Man | Feb 21, 2012 10:32:43 PM
The headline is actually incorrect . . . where Ohio borders West Virginia, the Ohio River is part of West Virginia, not Ohio. So, technically, the bridge was imploded in West Virginia. Odd, but true. :-)
Posted by: Jeff | Feb 21, 2012 10:52:05 PM
...and of course there was nothing environmentally unsound about that, the river was probably already polluted anyway, and they told all the fish to stay out of the way ;)
Posted by: Fliptrx | Feb 21, 2012 11:22:40 PM
Heh! That blowed up real good!
Posted by: ludovico | Feb 22, 2012 12:30:48 AM
My mother and father lived in Steubenville for 27 years. October, 2010, my father died... both his and my mother's ashes were scattered in the river, just beneath the Fort Steuben bridge. As far as I'm concerned, the demo company could have run the charges through town, and demo-ed it at the same time. Steubenville is an ugly town... when I returned, after a 25 year absence, for my parents' memorial service, downtown resembled pictures I'd seen of Berlin after the Allied bombing runs.
Unemployment in Steubenville, I'd wager, is in the mid-teens to mid-twenties percentage. All the steel mills - the principal source of employment - are gone. Bill and I went out to the Fort Steuben Mall for lunch... the mall is half-empty, as well; it was 4 in the afternoon on a Saturday, and the movie theater wasn't even open. The carpet runners in the common areas of the mall were threadbare. It was dark and empty.
My youngest sister and her four kids still live there. I'll never set foot within the city limits again.
Posted by: Eric Payne | Feb 22, 2012 12:57:04 AM
thanks, I needed that.
Posted by: Rance | Feb 22, 2012 1:19:14 AM
How many fish were killed in the making of this video??
Posted by: DrMikey | Feb 22, 2012 11:12:35 AM
That happened to me once.
Posted by: Soren456 | Feb 22, 2012 3:35:24 PM
VERY cool. I loved that. Do they clean up the debris from the river though?
Posted by: James | Feb 22, 2012 8:50:19 PM