cranes collapsing at hoover dam!!!!

[squirt'nmyload]

i was on the dam friday with some friends who were never there and we were talking about the possibility of the cranes falling due to wind....crazy shit...i just heard the wind caused one to fall

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http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp...&nav=menu107_1

[squirt'nmyload]

http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp...&nav=menu107_1
i was there at 1.30 and left around 2.30 or so...we were all over the place on the road in my denali cause of the wind....it was BAD

[Kachina26]

Fox 10 news out of phx said they were 1000' tall cranes, seemed a little inaccurate to me.
A pair of construction crane towers collapsed amid wind gusts Friday afternoon. No one was hurt after the two 280-foot-tall towers -- on either end of Black Canyon, a quarter-mile south of the dam -- fell around 3:30 Friay afternoon.
Maybe 1000' above the river below???

[squirt'nmyload]

Fox 10 news out of phx said they were 1000' tall cranes, seemed a little inaccurate to me.
Maybe 1000' above the river below???
yep...i'm thinkin above the river

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Here they are....
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/ConstructionPhotos/ColoradoRiverBridge(02_2006)/C-FHWA-003-288_lowrez.jpg

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http://www.hooverdambypass.org/ConstructionPhotos/ColoradoRiverBridge(12_2005)/C-FHWA-003-215_lowrez.jpg

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http://www.hooverdambypass.org/ConstructionPhotos/ColoradoRiverBridge(10_2005)/C-FHWA-004-140_lowrez.jpg

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Found this:
At completion, each tower will rise 352-feet above the roadway elevation and will carry six 3-inch diameter cables (3 each) 2,600 feet across the canyon

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Here is a link to all kinds of photos....
http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Const_PhotoAlbum.htm