Fire under highway just caused section to collapse, as if ATL traffic is not bad enough.

North or SOuth?

Northbound by 17th street.

It might be southbound, but both are closed for now,

Northbound right near Piedmont.

Well crap. That's not going to be fun for a long time.

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Originally posted by rangeme101:
Well crap. That's not going to be fun for a long time.

The Duke boys and Burt are warming up their engines. Thankfully no one got hurt.

Yep, a real mess for awhile. The flames were under the southbound side as well. They'll have to inspect that really well .

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Originally posted by 9x18:
Yep, a real mess for awhile. The flames were under the southbound side as well. They'll have to inspect that really well .

Yea it was PVC pipe stored under bridge.

400 is going to be a shit show tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
400 is going to be a shit show tomorrow.

...the next 2 years.

Yeah, my commute tomorrow morning nb up 85 to 400 just got f'ed.

Watching the fire from my window was nuts for a moment. Knew something bad was going on. Just before it collapsed.

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Yeah, I'm not going down to the Buckhead office for the next few months.

Interesting. There was a sudden mechanical failure in a high pressure gas main under route 195 in Providence just last night, but no ignition. Blocks were evacuated to keep from being near enough to turn the leak into an explosion.

I am not normally super suspicious, let alone paranoid, but I'd love to know how these two seemingly unrelated events just accidentally happened within 24 hours of one another. Early in the following article they say shoring of the pipe gave way during construction, but then say the site was closed for the night and they don't know how or why the pipe moved.


http://www.providencejournal.c...upture-in-providence

I used to work in Forsyth county and commute from downtown daily. Really happy my new job it walkable from the apt. now. Sadly, tomorrow I was heading up that way and the fire is right where I needed to go to get on 400nb.

I've looked under those overpass sections often and someone is going to be getting in some trouble for this if they were storing stuff there.

Hoping to avoid the ATL for a few months. What a mess

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
400 is going to be a shit show tomorrow.

...the next 2 years.

Lol i hope not. I work and live in midtown and I live near that collapsed section. Took me until 10pm to get home. Tried hitting Tattletales to wait it out. No dice.

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Originally posted by rocket72:

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
400 is going to be a shit show tomorrow.

...the next 2 years.

Lol i hope not. I work and live in midtown and I live near that collapsed section. Took me until 10pm to get home. Tried hitting Tattletales to wait it out. No dice.

Now you are talking.. Hey, its not like there is an NRA meeting downtown next month or anything.

This changes my life and my families for the next 4-6 months. I am having some drinks and taking tomorrow off.

I'm gonna start a rumor that I20 is the best alternate so they don't flood 75. The Braves will be bad enough.