More proof something BIG is Brewing. (Washington: construction, live in, train)

[MFWIC]

More Proof that something BIG is brewing in the U.S.of A.

I live in a small town on a river in New Hampshire, and back in April they tore down the old bridge that crosses the river and began building a new one. I've been keeping an eye on the construction since April because it's right down the road.

They put in the cement footings, (Giant solid concrete blocks) standing 24 or 25 feet high, on both sides of the river.
And then thats when I noticed that Construction had come to a stop.

I figured they were just waiting on steel to be delivered or something.

Now, two month have gone by and I ran into another local that lives on the other side of the river and has his nose in every affair in town. The first thing he said to me was, Hey, did you hear about the bridge?

Nope, haven't heard a thing, why? I asked.

It's not going to get finished he explained. Oh? why the hell not I asked. And here's where the spooky **** begins.

The Government took, confiscated the steel he said. What? The government took the steel? Yep! all of it.
Well....When are we going to get it back, did they say? Nope he said, one of the guy's working on the bridge said they needed it to make tanks or something.

H0000LY S**T !!!

So we got two nice new gigantic solid concrete blocks sticking out of the dirt now and nothing else is around. No equipment, no trucks, no steel, not even a freaking nut and bolt. Just a couple of no trespassing signs and a wooden gate. WTF?

[WannaComeHome]

I think he's pulling your leg! I haven't heard of anything like that going on where they are confiscating material like that (it's not WWII !). We have lots of road construction going on down here with lots of steel and none of it is being diverted. Why would NH be building tanks?! that's just weird, and the fed isn't doing anything like that, it would be all over the editorials and such in the Washington Post (we knew all about the Iran-Contra stuff nearly a year before it 'broke' - it was old news).

Sounds more like someone's playing 'silly buggers'! Ok, I believe maybe someone ran out of funds and cancelled the project if they're particularly bad at managing their project money.

[MFWIC]

No No No, it's true. NH isn't building tanks, Washington is. This bridge is an Nat Gov job.

They took the bridge to build army tanks...That's what he said.

[jthibodeau]

[quote=MFWIC;4877354]More Proof that something BIG is brewing in the U.S.of A.


The Government took, confiscated the steel he said........ one of the guy's working on the bridge said they needed it to make tanks or something.(/quote)

And, I'm sure all the concrete forming guys working on this bridge were fully informed by those in the upper levels of the construction job why the steel wasn't there also.

[seamusnh]

And steel is such a rare commodity that you have to stop building a bridge to get some....

[JFRRACING]

that sounds fishy. cause here in upstate ny there building new bridges all over the place and there's no lack of steel here. just in my area there's like four bridges being rebuilt and there's steel stacked all over the place. so i think if they we'er building tanks there wouldn't be any steel any where like wanna said. it sounds like some croocked company ran out of money. they wouldn't just take steel from one bridge project. that would be enough steel to build one tank , maybe. unless it's the size of the goldengate bridge. sound to me like that guys got a screw loose..

[Yankeehombre]

I'd call an unsubstantiated far from proof of anything! Especially since very little steel is made/ remade the U.S. anymore. most is from Japan these days.

[dsmith77]

Well I cant see there being a steel shortage in the states. Plus if that was really true wouldn't they take it from other bridges ( we have a very large on being built by me)and then soon enough there would be somethign about on the news. Can you check into it,maybe ask you county officals or something?

[rmcewan]

If this government were building tanks, they'd outsource the job to China. Then they'd be recalled because our enemies might swallow some small part.

Anyway... this state and many others had a huge knee jerk reaction to that bridge collapse in Minnesota. Seems like there was a rush to start repair projects and then the money ran out. Contact state DOT for information on your project.

The bridge at the end of my road has been closed since late last year, "because some concrete might fall off on to the railway as vehicles go over" (evidently, minivans cause more vibrations than a 20,000 ton freight train passing under!). Of course, the residents don't mind because people no longer use our leafy country lane as a 50mph short-cut.

PS: anyone who thinks they can win a fight with Russia using tanks might want to talk to the Germans.

[motoracer51]

Originally Posted by Yankeehombre

I'd call an unsubstantiated far from proof of anything! Especially since very little steel is made/ remade the U.S. anymore. most is from Japan these days.

I was an Ironworker for some years, and all of our steel came from Canada.