That stretching of the tension members of the support system answered a lot of questions for me. Seems like instinctively when I look at an I-beam it's subject to compression or bending forces, never tension. Just seems that way somehow to my primitive mind,
I'm not 100% sure that guy deserved firing. I can imagine he thought, gee, it's been reported before, everybody knows about it and nobody's bothering to fix it, so why report it again? But I may be excessively charitable today.
Nice research, Grandpa Shooter !
Thanks.
And thanks for this, RoadKingLarry !
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/bridge-collapse-history-trnd/index.htmlTerry, 230RN