Skagit River Bridge Collapse

[captain_slinky]

Paraphrased quote from several news reports regarding the collapse of the I-5 Bridge: "...the only connecting bridge between Anacortes and the Mainland collapses spilling cars and people into water..."

As a local who grew up in Anacortes and spent the first 20+ years of my life there, this make me *itch* because I know of AT LEAST 4 simple alternate routes to Anacortes from Mount Vernon and/or Burlington. The I-5 Bridge isn't what you use to get to my home town, it's what you use when you want to bypass all the towns along the way so you can get to Bellingham and/or Canada.

It SHOULD read "Drivers on their way to Canada will unfortunately be forced to endure up to a half-mile of Mount Vernon and/or Burlington. If you need to go to Anacortes, you'll already know of nearly a half-dozen alternate routes that are SO MUCH BETTER than taking I-5 all the way to Burlington".

I guess wat I'm trying to get at here is that they just need to leave my home town OUT of this :)

Comments

[zombie1974.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I think that mentioning Anacortes in the report caused a lot of unnecessary concern for the friends and relatives. There was no point in mentioning Anacortes in this story, it's less of a "getting-to-Anacortes" issue and more of a "moving-back-and-forth-between-Canada-and-someplace-meaningful-in-the-United-States" issue.