14 Oct
2017
14 Oct
'17
9:41 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:00:04 -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei said:
Note: road has interesting side effects. A new bridge on highway 17 "broke" when it got too cold: the stay cables on suspension bridge contracted and ended up lifting bridge deck by about 1m above ground level. So any fibre conduits would have been severed as it crossed from ground to bridge.
Actually, it wasn't an entire meter - photos say an entire *foot* perhaps. Stupid metric-imperial conversion error :) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/nipigon-bridge-transcanada-update-...