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Collapsed Pedestrian Bridge

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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 exercise 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

(hill re: 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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