>>4597737 (pb)
No. Slavery is insufficient a word. In truth, organs and other body parts may be more valuable than a live slave. This is where the true evil lies. It’s not a “sex slave” industry. That is just another sugarcoating phrase more amenable for public consumption via the MSM.
The POTUS will do what Reagan did with the Air Traffic Controllers. Bring in the Mil to do the job.
The problem which was the direct cause of the collapse was messing with the pre-tensioned interior steel cables AFTER the bridge was swiveled into place. The second that they applied the hydraulic wrench to the huge steel nut AFTER the steel cables were “loaded”, or placed into full tension by the weight of the structure, that cable SNAPPED. When that interior steel cable, designed to handle the concrete diagonal’s tensile force (concrete has no tensile strength), SNAPPED, the entire tensile force of the designed pre-tensioned concrete diagonal was INSTANTLY transferred to the diagonal’s concrete. Again, as concrete has no tensile strength, the concrete diagonal immediately and catastrophically failed.
This unforeseen change in sequence of construction was due to a field engineer’s decision to INCREASE the tension of the diagonal’s steel cable because the actual site conditions caused there to be more of a cantilever force because obstructions on the roadside shoulder (concrete ‘Jersey Barriers’) prohibited the swiveling of the structure with the designed amount of temporary underlying supports. As more of the bridge would now “hang” at the end where the failure occurred because underlying supports couldn’t fit beneath, the field engineer made a field decision to TIGHTEN the tension cable above the original designed tensile force with the idea that the cable could be LOOSENED back to the designed force. Huge and fatal mistake. The cable was seriously stressed and was likely near or at failure point due to fatigue where the cable would actually begin to stretch. So by applying the hydraulic tensioner (with tremendous hammering pulses) to that one nut to loosen it after the bridge was in place, that additional hammering force was enough to cause the fatigued cable to snap. This is why post-collapse photos show the very heavy hydraulic tensioner AND the end of the snapped cable SHOT OUT the end of the diagonal and was hanging 10 feet or so from the failed concrete diagonal’s end.