Remember when literally leaving your constituents to freeze to death would've been enough?
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Remember when literally leaving your constituents to freeze to death would've been enough?
Ted Cruz could set someone's house on fire and kill that person's entire family, but all he has to say is pro-life or pro-guns and that person will still vote for him.
so where came all those votes for beto from the last time?
But why?
rather tall ships to go that way - consider a folding bridge big enough for an aircraft carrier or a really fat container ship
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Well that makes sense then, but it does look kind of strange seeing that hole for the tunnel go into the water.. What happens in heavy rain or storms, or can water lap up over that?
let's hope it better does not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Øresund_Bridge
for some reason the pic above shows up as this bridge but the island looks quite different
Yes well that would be problematic.
take a train and also get a free drowning sounds like a bargain, though
The original plan was to put a suspension bridge over the deepwater channel but the Navy nixed it out of concerns that a bridge collapse by structural failure, weather or sabotage could block access to the Atlantic for the ships at Norfolk.
They have massive pumps to remove any water that gets in the tunnel from rain or pipes breaking. If there's a hurricane storm surge, they close the tunnel down to traffic and close the flood gates.
wiki has a list of those abominations 
Tunnels are expensive, difficult and time consuming to dig (even with modern digging machines) and line and provide support/safety infrastructure for, require very specific geological conditions which might not always be present, are harder to evacuate (especially underwater where you can't just have a subway station) and clear traffic if there's an accident, the longer they are the deeper you'll probably have to go, etc.
Plus, this thing is 17 and a half miles long, so that would be a pretty claustrophobic drive if it was entirely tunnel.
OK, I didn't realize there were that many complications with tunnels.
Hey we had twerking dancers for a Navy ship
Some of these "tunnels" are prefabbed on shore and towed and sunk into place. Examples of the Hampton Roads bridge-tunnel sections are about halfway through this vid:
*(see the If I Could Turn Back Time video if you are unsure of the reference.)
Wasn't Cher* enough?
*(see the If I Could Turn Back Time video if you are unsure of the reference.)
I live near those Virginia bridge tunnels (3) and use them a couple of times a year. I never thought of them as weird, so these reactions are surprising to me. I like looking at the Navy ships from the bridge part but the tunnel part makes my claustrophobia wake up and I try not to think of all the water overhead. Every once in awhile there are accidents that close the bridge tunnel for a time. Once, a truck with pigs crashed and the pigs were running all over.
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