DUDE! Did you take this yesterday? Because OMG we were passing right by each other (on opposite sides of the river). I was on Front street as the barge was making its way northward* and the Hawthorne was up, which was the first time I'd seen that one up; kept going, and the Morrison and Burnside were up, also -- first time I'd seen the Morrison up, too. And I thought to myself, "This city where I live is pretty goddamn awesome. :)"
*So I guess we weren't actually there at the same time, since the barge is headed south in this pic. (right??)
Hee! It was this afternoon (Thursday) round about 6:30 p.m. and yes, the barge is going upstream/south.
Barges and tugs and bridge openings are pretty much daily occurrences this time of year, and the trick is to avoid getting stuck on the Steel for one of them, because the Steel's bottom-most ramp is raised for the smallest motorboat, but I never ever tire of seeing the bridges open. I don't know what it is.
Today the warning horn started when I had already started across the lift span. The bridge was crowded with pedestrians and other cyclists. I made haste (as you do when the horn starts blowing) to get off the span, and I should have been the last one across in my direction, but apparently some hipster cyclist well behind me decided to go for it.
Normally the bridge warning is a recording in English, followed by Spanish, neither of which is particularly understandable over the Steel Bridge's massive bullhorns fine stereophonic public address system. Today, though, the bridgetender came on between cadences of the recorded drone and cried in a very high-pitched voice "Get off the bridge get off the bridge get off the bridge OMG get off the bridge" about five times.
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*So I guess we weren't actually there at the same time, since the barge is headed south in this pic. (right??)
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Barges and tugs and bridge openings are pretty much daily occurrences this time of year, and the trick is to avoid getting stuck on the Steel for one of them, because the Steel's bottom-most ramp is raised for the smallest motorboat, but I never ever tire of seeing the bridges open. I don't know what it is.
Today the warning horn started when I had already started across the lift span. The bridge was crowded with pedestrians and other cyclists. I made haste (as you do when the horn starts blowing) to get off the span, and I should have been the last one across in my direction, but apparently some hipster cyclist well behind me decided to go for it.
Normally the bridge warning is a recording in English, followed by Spanish, neither of which is particularly understandable over the Steel Bridge's
massive bullhornsfine stereophonic public address system. Today, though, the bridgetender came on between cadences of the recorded drone and cried in a very high-pitched voice "Get off the bridge get off the bridge get off the bridge OMG get off the bridge" about five times.It was hilarious!
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I can hardly wait for the in-person Portland-Glasgow compare and contrast.