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Collapsed Pedestrian Bridge

The new 950-ton bridge would beat down time dashing to classes cheat ting vulnerability asper thick traffic       putting life at risk,       thus laudatory alternative        intending to offer Sweetwater       to last a lifetime would make fleet (installed at Florida International University,       with eager pedestrians ready to greet  crossing grand opening,       where local dignitaries didst meet       viz Miami-Dade County       Saturday (March eleventh 2018)  witnessing ghastly collapsed       Thursday (March fifteenth 2018)  afternoon onto Southwest Eighth Street.  An unknown number       of fatalities surmised,  while several others       were hospitalized.  Prior to groundbreaking       with placement guised of the attendant pomp       and circumstances exercised setting cornerstone,       the projected       general estimation apprised sans building costs totaled $14.2 million  and funded as part of a $19.4 million grant  from the US Department of Transportation.  The fact sheet boasted the sheer intensity  comparable to withstand strength of a  category 5 hurricane, and supposed to last  for more than 100 years.  Within the blink of an eye, no ifs ands,  nor abutments squared with ratiocination  earning civil engineers bragging rights,  which boastful, delightful, fanciful stead fastness touted thwarting titanic tenable  taxing shocked Katrina and the waves.  Now only a scattered pile (formerly comp rising beams footings, and piers) of rein forced concrete capped with a bent ele ment defying hallelujahs, karaoke kudos, and bobble headed nods, now impish jinns keep leering, mocking, and naysaying to fading echoing reverberations leveled at the laughingstock of an architectural (duff) feat. Further scrutiny will attempt to cap chore structural weaknesses. Amidst snapped, crackled, and popped strewn cables entwined girders (whose premature destruction) will also warrant any arresting tell tale signs of unusual stress.

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Date: 3/16/2018 5:55:00 PM
it is a tragedy is so many ways Matthew, last i saw was 6 who perished in its collapse. Powerfully penned poem and I love the alliteration:-) hugs jan xx
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