Fear Of Height, and going over tall bridges???

I’m not terrified of heights but I also don’t like them lol. So I get hyper aware when going over some of the metroplex overpasses and more aware of bridges.

I just don’t want to be on the 6:00 news as that guy who plunged off an overpass or rode the bridge down during a collapse. I don’t have a lot of faith in inspectors…

 

Let us not forget earthquakes lol....that thought crosses my mind when near the Mississippi River in the new Madrid fault zone .

 

Haha, I remember some of those high ramps down in TX, and those skinny high bridges up toward the Northeast. And I'm okay with heights, I used to be a technical rock climber, and I also did some harness work aboard the ships, but those high ramps with the low side barriers always gave me pause and forced me to focus upon staying centered in my lane. It seemed like a rig could just trip & roll right over those barriers, especially a top-heavy rig with a high CG at the time. Having said that, some bridges offered spectacular views, like the bridge over the New River Gorge in WV, or that new bridge overlooking the Hoover Dam. Bridges with sidewalks and/or better barriers never posed a problem.

 

One I forgot about. Perrine bridge, in Twin Falls Idaho. There really need to be a sign warning drivers that base jumping may be in progress. Freaked me out to see guys jumping off as I drove over. I had time to stop at the roadside park on the way back out, and I walked out to the midpoint, and videoed some guys jumping it.

 

WV used to hold a 'Bridge Day' on the span over the New River Gorge, one day in the year when folks could legally jump off the bridge... dunno if they still do that, but it was pretty cool.

 

Bridges need to move, rigid structure would shake itself apart.

Traffic on the NJ turnpike bay bridge to exits 14A,B,C was fun coming back from Bayonne with a loaded tanker when the bridge motion got the tank rocking around too while you sat in traffic. Some of the trainees were not too happy with it.

 

Yeah they still do. Saw a video of last years and one jumper hit another’s deployed chute. The guy who got hit got his reserve out and the person who hit them got theirs out but I’d say it was pretty close call.

 

Somewhere over in southeast maybe Tennessee or Alabama you go under a rail road bridge that’s so high it bothers me going under it….can’t remember exactly where to save my life

 

Maybe here..
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The New River Railroad Bridge is the tallest railroad bridge in the State of Tennessee, at 389 feet above the New River Gorge. The river channel cantilever span stands on two hollow piers, 392 feet apart. The bridge was built along a realignment of Cincinnati Southern's infamous "Rathole" Line, between Danville, Kentucky and Oakdale, Tennessee, to reduce the number of tunnels and fault line crossings on the Cincinnati-to-Chattanooga route. The realignment also lowered the steep incline into the New River Valley northward from Elgin, Tennessee, eliminating the need for the Robbins Tunnel and the old New River crossing.
Or this?
The "Steamboat Bill" Memorial Bridges are two bridges that span the widest points of the Tennessee River in Decatur, Alabama. One of the bridges is a cantilever truss, and the other bridge is made of reinforced concrete.

Can still try the old US11 tunnel in Chattooga or the dark side...