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July 31, 2004The creek level is back to normal and you can see the road in the creek. All the news crews have been here and the helicoptors have been hovering for days now. I guess Ovilla is a gruesome tourist attraction because of the loss of the bridge and the two lost lives.The pictures below are the morning of July 29 when the bridge collapsed. They think it collapsed some time between 4:30 am and 5:30 am and the two men who died were on their way to work.
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Here is the usually mild-mannered creek which runs under Ovilla Road. Speculation is that a private bridge upstream washed out and the debris destroyed this bridge some time in the early morning hours. (we don't think that is true now that the dust has settled) Two men in two pick up trucks didn't realize the bridge was out because of the heavy rain and darkness and lost their lives.
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You can see the debris from the bridge laying in the creek. The Corps of Engineers say it will be 8 months before the bridge is rebuilt. Two days later they say they can get it done in 3 months because the Ovilla fire house is north of the bridge and the homes south of it will have to wait at least 9 minutes for any emergency trucks to get to them just because it will take them that long to drive the detour around the washed out bridge. Our Fire Chief is working on finding a place to park a fire truck south of the bridge to improve the response time. |
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Our blog (a web log or sort of online diary) is maintained by chief stall mucker, poop picker-upper and all around slave to the animals,
Norma Epstein.
I write it all myself (no Pulitzer or accolades necessary) and I take all the pictures with a Minolta digital camera.
I try to take pictures daily and update the site by 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time, but it usually gets done sometime later.
