Originally Posted by
Dirk Diggler
across Tampa Bay. This is one of the highest, most windy bridges in the country. They actually have to close the bridge sometimes when it gets too windy! It also has one of the steepest gradients of all bridges in the US.
Sounds like a great trip and I hope the weather wasn't too hot in Tampa Bay!
This reminded me that years ago now I drove my Mirage over Mackinac bridge in Michigan. I felt in control, yet I was almost more cautious than when driving my other cars over the years, considering my Mirage is what 60% lighter than the average car that drives the bridge. Let alone all the big trailers. And motorcycles it's another story all together for them.
People say in the early 1990s a Geo Metro flew off the Bluewater bridge into Lake Michigan at Port Huron, not sure if that is true. Someone told me that out of the blue when I bought my Mirage in 2014.
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