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Ya are seein it right ken... The joint is bolted. This bridge is fairly " new " by big bridge standards. Fabricated by Bethlehem Steel Corp in the late sixties and early seventies. They may also have erected it as well, as they did that sort of work too. This bridge is what is known as a " tied arch " design, and the fractured member is like a bowstring that keeps the arch from straightening out and falling. The connection ya see appears ta be the main one at the end of the arch. There is a complete fracture to the right of the connection. Im guessin its 12 inches to 24 inches away from the joint. Im guessin a fatigue fracture brought on by cyclic loading that started at a notch or inclusion somewhere in the plate. This is, indeed, bad because the fractured member holds the arch above it in tension. If its broken, the loads are migrating thru the bridge floor beams and the deck slab, and that aint good. Thats why they are wringing their hands and keepin traffic off the bridge. Concrete aint good in tension, and the floor beam system aint supposed ta carry this load. If the deck breaks or a floor beam turns loose, they know the arch and bridge is headed for the drink. My guess is that they dont want ta take any chances with an errant tow bumping a pier anywhere until they get this bottom chord ( ... the beam with the fracture .. ) stabilized some way. Watch for em to weld xtra coverplates or rig some big iron some way to carry these loads in the next while. I spent some time designin and doin some of this when i had to work for a livin... Believe me, the TDOT and the ARKDOT is scared ta death right now... structural engineerin leroy

Mark my words. We’ve not seen the fallout from that yet. But we’re going to. And I’ll bet real money it’s going to be me and you bailing out a bunch of billionaire real estate investors from their paper losses that somehow threaten to tank the entire economy.

Dont hire this guy or gal for your next bridge or hi rise project structural design project. He ( .. or she .. ) failed structural analysis. leroy.

One of the reasons was ####ty middle managers. People who actually didnt contribute much to anything except trying to look like they are worth something. Lots of places have middle managers that actually bring in nothing. It is just a place holder position.

That’s not what I meant. I was referring to middle managers being surplus as superfluous outside of the in office dynamic. That massive of a re-organization of how business is done will lead to the discovery that some positions just aren’t that valuable.

I don't doubt working from home will become much more prevalent, but I have already experienced a couple downsides. Susan is now working from home and has limited access to things that used to be right outside her door. I call Susan (who is across town or in another city) and ask her if she can put her hands on XYZ item. Now she works from home, so she calls Johnny, who is not in our department and really has no idea WTH Susan is talking about and doesn't really have time for her, but he is on location. Johnny may or may not give Susan accurate info. Plus, Susan's home internet is not as good as it was at work. After a while, I learn who Johnny is and why there is a delay and sometimes just bypass Susan. She cannot do some of the odds and ends that she used to do and is a little less valuable. If I worked from home, the fact that someone in India or the Philippines can possibly also do my job from home would be in the back of my mind.

I suspect that many middle managers (rightly) perceive that shifting to a WFH model will cause not only the buildings to be surplussed.

I think you touched on something here. I bet there is a lot of middle management around the country feeling concerned about their jobs because they can no longer manage their team in person. As soon as my manager got the vaccine she started pushing for us to get back into the office. Thankfully, that hasn't happened yet. No one on my team wants to go back into the office.

I'd stay at home. Nashville companies need to wisen up. The last year (2020) changed everything about teleworking. Companies no longer only compete against others in their town or city for talent; they are competing against other companies across the country. If they want to hire the best people, they've got to put aside 20th Century notions that workers must spend hours a day commuting only to spend hours more a day crammed into corporate offices. We've preached work-life balance for years as if letting people end their shifts on time was some magnanimous act. 2020 showed us that true work-life balance is easier to achieve when a worker is able to choose where they work from. My own company has lost it's damn mind this year and is trying to shove people back into offices, despite having spent a year saying that working from home was the "New Normal". Not only has it it begun to erode the willingness of people to trust anything a C-Level executive says from this point forward, but it's also causing the worker to wake-up to the power that they have now that choosing an employer doesn't mean just choosing between other Nashville-area companies.

I've worked from home for the better part of the last 10 years. I love the flexibility and nothing is better than videoconferencing in a tie and shorts. The downside is that it's difficult to escape work. It's always there.

The one that always sticks out the most to be is REI. They spent two years building an exceptionally nice brand new office complex, then the pandemic hit before they could move in. Their experience with having their employees work from home was so positive that they never moved into the building and instead put it up for sale.

https://clarksvillenow.com/local/gunmaker-troy-to-move-headquarters-to-clarksville-with-75-jobs/ bring them all to Tennessee!

Been several months since we installed our driveway alarm. Turns out we really like it. Took a while to get accustomed to the chime, but it has turned out to be a real asset. Our dog has even learned to go look out when it goes off. The chime is loud enough to wake us up at night. It goes off every time someone comes into the drive. I located the magnetic sensor in the middle of the driveway and the wireless transmitter in a tree beside the drive. Painted the transmitter box grey to match the tree trunks. There are trees and a fence keeps people on the drive until they get past it. After an uninvited guest, that was ransacking unlocked vehicles in driveways around here, just 2 nights before Christmas this year, we got the alarm. It just went off and the Mail Man just brought a package, and put it in our package box up close to our house. Our drive is 325' long. The magnetic sensor is about 35' up the drive. By the way I think we caught a Porch Pirate, a couple months ago, as he entered just after the Fed X dropped a package of medicine on our front porch then exited the drive. I went out and he was startled, then he stammered around and asked who lived here, which was a ruse, IMO. We have never had that to happen in 35 years that we lived here. There are advantages and disadvantages, but we are well satisfied with our alarm. Cost me 245.00 from Amazon.

I am amazed we do not have morw bridge collapses in general. Lots of them are way past their prime and have much more traffic than they were designed for. Even newly build ones probably suffer from the same corner cutting I saw in construction. 10% less rebar is more prifi6t

Gray is most likely right... I'm guessin they will plate n weld if they have the room... They musta done some quick number crunchin and believe the loads are low enough now with no traffic to get some things movin again. My concern would be wind loading now. The wind bracing under the roadway deck must be helpin alot to carry the dead load of the bridge. They dont want ta see any big thunderstorms roll thru now im thinkin. Watch for a big bridge contractor ta show up and fix this one for a handsome fee... leroy...

Very ingenious..

I have never left a job. I have left terrible management. I dont quit places, I quit people.

Don't forget Flex Seal.

Not as far fetched as you think. In my career I have repaired large booms on various pieces of equipment by welding and plating the damaged areas. Same principal on a bigger scale.

Local news just announced that the Coast Guard has re-opened river traffic. About 1000 barges are now moving again. Good news as the Mississippi river is a major agricultural product pathway. There is also talk of a temporary repair to re-open road traffic until a permanent repair can be planed and scheduled. But nothing solid as of yet.

Welcome. Beautiful country in the far east.

Welcome to TGO

Yes ReeferMac. A Dakota Alert DCPT-4000. My wife really likes the system as she is home by herself sometimes and likes to know if someone enters. This thing has not failed. Catches people coming and leaving. Highly recommend it for someone living a distance off road.

Beretta was the start. There are several more from up north that are seriously contemplating moves.

Actually, what doesn’t sit well with the moderation team are personal attacks. Especially when they are based on such ridiculously bad takes. Chill out, dude.

It was a perfect day. The Hiwassee is running really sweet right now too below the bridge at Reliance.

The pandemic has probably pushed the remote work conversation ahead by 15-20 years. We'll have some companies trying really hard to keep their thumbs on their employees by forcing them back - but for a lot of companies this year has been an experiment that turned out way better than they might have expected. A bunch of companies are embracing work from home and I expect will see productivity gains as a result. There is going to be a lot of maturing of processes, monitoring, security, culture etc. that needs to happen - but there's a lot of opportunity there.

When I saw the title of the thread I thought you might be pregnant......

It’d be better than whatever your smoking.

So glad you like it, dogs, we have 4 and all of them know just what that sound means. The price is well worth the disadvantages. Ours has been in constant use for 2 years, batters still good, now that I have said that they will go weak in a few days. Congrats on the peace of mind.

At least most of those go to true Americans that paid for it during their working years. You dems always go straight to those 3 items the first two that are vital to millions of elderly Americans very survival and the last that defends a freak’n NATION in the most perilous times in years with the entire world against us. Yet you and your leaders are all good with billions of foreign aid to countries that hate us Russia and china included, giving illegals free everything, disarming law abiding citizens and even the right to self defense in a most violent time in our country, yet support ANTIFA the BLM and so much more. The list is very long. Sick twisted Bull S—- that what it is. Pisses me off. I’m sure another dem moderator will delete this because it’s the freak’n truth and that don’t sit well with them.

2021 Darwin Award winners may reach an all time yearly record!

Paying for it is not the issue - the current administration comes out with $2 trillion spending plans like they are chump change. The problem is that truly needed infrastructure upgrades will be smothered by green new deal type wish lists.

I've been trying to figure out a way to have the forum software drop a disclaimer / warning at the top of messages sent by people who are using brand new accounts also. Just as a reminder to folks to verify things before blindly trusting. I know that TGO is well-stocked with smart folks who have a lot of common sense, but I keep reminding myself that there are still people in this world who fall for telemarketing scams too. Not because they are dumb, but rather just because of genuine trust for people or innocent naivety. I'd like to protect those folks if they happen to join, especially if they join in the current climate just to find ammo or a firearm. Sadly, so far I've had no luck pulling-off this particular hack of our software. I may have to farm it out to someone who develops add-ons to the forum software we use.

If you thought the 38 was crazy you completely overlooked the Standard CCI 22lr they were selling for $0.40 a round . Gun owners at large on the left and right are their own worst enemy. It appears no one bought the last 10 years things have been dirt cheap and now it’s conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory in gun forums like this one driving typically sane people to justify spending exorbitant prices for ammo instead of just sitting and waiting for prices to come back down as they always have. Practice your dry fire, take up a different hobby, go dust off the red Ryder or that old paintball gun you used to love but for the love of money please stop buying right now..until us as a gun community stops paying these crack head prices we won’t see any relief.

King is about 6 blocks from me. Welcome to the area.

Family. Our daughter (only child) graduatesd from King, got married and stayed in the area and now the first the first grandchild is on the way.

Welcome to NE TN and TGO

Yo. What brings you to our little part of the world?

Maybe I don't need one. I can think of several real guns that I need more in that range. Or I could buy a couple of boxes of ammo for what I have.

The meme is a joke of course but I could totally believe it considering how Memphis does things and how many of those steel plates hold the streets together, sometimes for an eternity. I sometimes think that the steel plate street cover was invented there.

I have reached Old Fart status for sure. I bought me a Red Ryder Adult version bb bun. 250 FPS low velocity is what I wanted to keep the squirrels off of the bird feeders without killing them. Body shots only you see. The birds love me though!! As soon as I clear out the squirrels, they come right back and start eating. Squirrels on the ground are ok, but when they run the birds off and gorge on the feeders they get busted in the butt!

Either or depending on clothing and the activities that day. Today it's revolver because I'm in overalls and wearing a belt and holster on the outside might give people the impression I'm from KY

$500 to $2750 on eBay.

I know what's going to be in several stockings at Christmas this year . . .