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This was hard to watch. According to the wiki page "Country Bill" Allman (the jackhammer dude) later took his own life over the stress this event caused.
That's really sad. That's why disaster mental health care is just as important as the physical health.
Horrible.
Remember when it came on the local news.
I knew a doctor that was doing triage/ER work on many of the victims. He was always haunted by what he saw here, and he'd been to Vietnam.
Reading a collection of survivor accounts gave me nightmares, even though it was the bowdlerized Readers Digest version
Really riveting stuff. Thanks for posting.
All because of a lazy change in design that doubled the supported weight of the tie rods holding up the walkways