crews and it would have been a much, much different story had we been standing in that same spot. coming up, winds cause this bridge to swing wildly, forcing commuters to run for their lives. we re watching steel and concrete half a mile long twisting 20 times a minute when caught on camera watch out continues.
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with a crane. we went in and used rock bolts 15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the site to try to stabilize everything. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking about all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee, taken a little extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there, we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there, those rocks would have come down not just on bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much, much different story had we have been standing in that same spot.
we went in and used rock bolts 15 to 40 feet into the rock face and added bolts to the site to try to stabilize it. while the community is happy that the road is open again, they are also proud. because of the quick thinking and expertise of a road supervisor and a geologist, no one is injured or killed by the rock slide. i get some cold sweats from time to time thinking of all the things that could have gone wrong that day. if i had stopped for coffee. taken extra time for lunch before i got out to the site. the timing of everything was such that once i got there we had time to see what was going on and get everybody out of the way before the slide occurred. had she not been there those rocks would have come down and not just bill and myself, but everybody that was working that scene, all the tdot crews. it would have been a much different story had we been
of a boulder that s fallen on to u.s. 64. originally we were just going to try to get pictures of a boulder in the road. we didn t know how big. we didn t know if there were any cars trapped underneath. when fairbanks and reporter bill mitchell arrived, the road is closed to traffic and the tennessee department of transportation, better known as tdot, is using a giant hydraulic hammer to break up the enormous rock. it was huge. it was massive. it covered up an entire lane of the road. they were hitting this thing with all they had, and it was not cracking. you can see little splitters of rock fly up through the air. as far as breaking that thing apart, it wasn t going anywhere. the 24-mile two-lane highway goes through a narrow pass called the gorge and is flanked by little frog mountain on the one side and the ocoee river on the other. the trip through the ocoee gorge normally takes 20 minutes, but with the road closed, the detour around the mountain adds more than two hours t
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