I'm like having anxiety just looking at these photos!
Is anyone scared to drive over high bridges? (PICS INSIDE)
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Posts: 21113 (06/29/2009 11:08 PM) |
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ILUVBubbleGUM |
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Posts: 996 (06/29/2009 11:10 PM) |
The scariest place I've driven was not a bridge, it was some crazy WINDING road up some crazy ass mountains in Colorado with ice all over the place.
I don't mind some of the water ones. The skinny looking bridges that look like they don't have much support scare the crap outta me. |
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IMissKD |
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Posts: 1489 (06/29/2009 11:19 PM) |
There's one in North Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Fl area that scares the heck out of me to drive over. It's next to the Ft. Lauderdale airport. And then the
"7 Mile Bridge" connecting South Florida to The Florida Keys. Yea, not my idea of fun, although I have driven (ridden, I was a passenger) over it to
and from Key West last year.
This is (part of) the 7 Mile Bridge: 
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smokey5876 |
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Posts: 3636 (06/29/2009 11:24 PM) |
SwanGeese wrote:OMG OMG OMG! This brings back baaaaad memories  . When I opened this, I was thinking about this bridge! I can't believe I actually
remember it either. I grew up in Louisiana and I've always had a huge fear of bridges. Luckily where I live now, I rarely go over them, and if I do
they're very short. But I remember when we used to take trips, going over this fucking bridge and I HATED it!! Wow, that brings me back
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MeParley |
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Posts: 14981 (06/29/2009 11:25 PM) |
the lakes slave wrote:I've never been afraid of bridges, but that one could easily be my first! 
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hookedonhayes |
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Posts: 2467 (06/29/2009 11:34 PM) |
Just to ease your fear, I will tell you that over 80% of bridges in America are classified as "structurally deficient" lol
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ucbearcat21 |
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Posts: 1068 (06/29/2009 11:54 PM) |
I've been on the pontchartrain bridge! It didn't bother me.
I've actually climbed a bridge...it was secure and actually not that "thrilling", and I used to think I was scared of heights. I even laid down on the part that was clear glass over the river... haha. Here's a pic of the bridge, and what it looked like with people climbing. It was something you could do in Cincinnati, but they closed it cuz I guess they weren't making enough money.
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sweeti4509 |
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Posts: 3003 (06/30/2009 12:19 AM) |
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel really isn't that bad! It's not like it's made of glass and you're staring at all the fish as you go
through...if you didn't know you were underwater you wouldn't even know anything was different! There are quite a few bridge tunnels in the Tidewater
area of VA. None are as long as the CBBT. That one connects the Eastern Shore of VA to the mainland. But there is also the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel that you
go through on 64 E going towards Norfolk/VA beach, and the Monitor Merrimac BT that connects Newport News to Suffolk. It's really not that bad, and you
definitely get used to it.
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nerdnik |
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Posts: 15727 (06/30/2009 12:20 AM) |
I got a couple of anxiety attacks looking at these ... the ones over water freak me out the most.
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zerabrum |
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Posts: 2298 (06/30/2009 12:25 AM) |
Jes2421 wrote: I've driven through that tunnel and I had no idea that's what it looked like from above. |
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shortcakexo |
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Posts: 4787 (06/30/2009 12:28 AM) |
IMissKD wrote: I always get so excited when we get to the 7 Mile Bridge because it means we're close to Key West I used to live there! The bridge never really
freaked me out. Also cool that they filmed True Lies on the old 7 Mile Bridge!
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Anticipation19 |
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Posts: 16779 (06/30/2009 12:33 AM) |
Lyric762 wrote:I live in Atlanta and there was an accident maybe 1-2 years ago that a BUS full of kids drove OFF a bridge that high. I always brace myself for something like that now when I'm on it. |
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rachaelthinksbeesareokay |
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Posts: 2482 (06/30/2009 1:04 AM) Grammar Cop '09
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This is from my mom's hometown...
My uncle told me stories about how they used to walk along the LITTLE SKINNY EDGE from one side to the other. Granted you can't drive over it, but it's still scary to think they walked on that... 
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Lyric762 |
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Posts: 600 (06/30/2009 1:13 AM) |
Here's a movie of the High 5 In dallas from the first pictures I put in the thread
Also has anyone been to "Grandfather mountain" in Boone, NC? It's a mile high bridge you walk across. I went on it and it was pretty neat. And yes it does swing a bit
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sugarshaker |
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Posts: 872 (06/30/2009 3:16 AM) |
Walk across a swinging bridge???
Hell no! |
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Donald Draper.niketalk |
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Posts: 1084 (06/30/2009 3:33 AM) |
zerabrum wrote:I used to live 2 miles from that tunnel and had no idea that's what it looked like.
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 marlsj |
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Posts: 11449 (06/30/2009 3:51 AM) |
This post scares me.
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chubbypotato |
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Posts: 1372 (06/30/2009 3:54 AM) |
The Capilano Bridge in Canada is also a walk on bridge and it swung a little bit too. I thought it was pretty cool. My brother was terrifed though and he
cried.
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TiiNyDAnCER xX |
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Posts: 2995 (06/30/2009 4:02 AM) |
smokey5876 wrote:This post is actually giving me heart palpitations. That Chesapeake Tunnel is bad enough, but this is the fuckery that makes me want to live in a landlocked state
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lid0linda |
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Posts: 1392 (06/30/2009 5:35 AM) |
I have major goosebumps!
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