Chesapeake Bay Bridge Storm Sunday July 25th, 2010. Microburst hit and no where to go
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2010
- Crossing the Bay Bridge during the big storm. Confirmed it was a microburst. The bridge suspension was shaking and there was no where to go! Too bad my camera crapped out before I made it off the bridge. Enjoy the Motley Crue.
Let's all take a moment to celebrate bridge engineers in times like these.
Amen!!
Jesus. I had a full blown panic attack just watching this. My worst nightmare.
You are not alone iam super afraid of real bad storms
I was in this storm ! wish i was in a car. was in a 22' sailboat 100 yards south of the bridge. 55 plus knot winds, green clouds. will never forget that day
Experienced something like this just yesterday. Stuck on a bridge and right in front of us a funnel started forming. No where else to go but forward, I thought I was going to die. I can totally feel you right here, and I'm glad that you're safe.
I got stuck on the Bay Bridge in 1987. The storm was tremendous! No exaggeration. Could not see the car in front of you. The bridge started moving. Scared to death. No where to go. No fight or flight mechanism. Eagles came on the radio...Ol"55. Got me through it.
They would have to call an ambulance for me. I'm scared of this bridge on a clear & sunny day.
The Ambulance would never get there in time. What is with everybody stopping in the middle? Pull over so people not afraid of a thunderstorm can pass; so emergency vehicles can pass.
Stay away from the Midwest, please. We have plenty of our own selfish, self-centered drivers.
@@GottaWannaDance 😂 try again come to the northern Virginia, dc and southern Maryland area way worse drivers than midwest. Even when its a normal rainy day ppl are still scared to drive and inlyworty about themselves
Why are you telling all of youtube that you are a scared little b*tch?...are you that desperate to score likes?
I just don’t get why people are scared like yea it’s pretty high up but if you drive like your supposed to and drive in the middle of your lane you will be perfectly fine. Get off your phone.
@@josephsteinbach6480 People have been afraid of the bridge since way before cell phones.
I know this is an old video, but thank you for posting!
This bridge gives me anxiety and I have only seen this bridge on CZcams. I can’t even imagine driving on this bridge for real. 😩
K. M. I drive this bridge twice every year to and from the beach and have done for over 20 years. There have been some anxious moments but I look forward to it every time. They have a 5k race on it every year where they shut the one side down for people to run and walk over it. Would I do that? HELL NO! 😳
True I need a Xan now 😡
@@joesaxman5495 I did the bridge walk a couple times in my teens. That was when I realized how high that thing is and my fear began. For me, fear of heights + fear of large bodies of water = fear of bridges.
That bridge freaking blows in the wind too😳
That's why I haven't been on that bridge in 8 years.
Probably the second last place I would want to be in a storm like this. The first being in an air balloon.
Oh ✨hell✨ no dat would be the last day of my life
Air balloon definitely 1st, but I’d say middle of the ocean is near certain suicide as well 😭 (smaller boats)
Glad you survived your trip across the most dangerous bridge in the US. Had it been me, I would have waited until the storm passed.
This is as scary as driving on the San Francisco Okland Bay Bridge during a 5.9 earthquake.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area and electrical storms like these are super rare! It looks you're driving on a bridge in the middle of Kansas! Lightning struck right next to your car, I mean wow. Exciting, but oh so dangerous.
I live a little north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. In the summer, we get thunderstorms around 4:00-5:00 in the afternoon several times a week. I had to go out in one last week, and lightning was flashing all around and the rain was coming down harder than in this video. The only good thing was that I didn't have to go over the bridge. 🙂
The good news is Sandy Point at the end of the bridge has wash rooms so you can clean up your seat after you get off that bridge.
I LOVE this bridge! When I was little I would always ask if we had to travel over the Bay Bridge or through the Harbor Tunnel!!! ♥️
That would have scared the living daylights out of me for sure! Getting stuck in a storm like this and having nowhere to go! I like driving in thunderstorms, but this would have been a bit much for me! Awesome video though!
I am terrified of this bridge. There is NO way I would drive on it in a storm!
My Brotha! U are the official boss of ballziness
Crazy thing is, I drove through Sunday night/Monday morning and a tornado touched down in Kent Island. Bridge was shut down completely. It was crazy.
So sad I missed this in person - thanks for the great video though! Love it!
We got stuck one time in maybe 1995. We had our baby Daughter and our Dog in the Car. We got stuck on the top of the bridge! The bridge was jumping up and down! I was driving a manual transmission and when We got off the bridge my leg was shaking! It was so scary!
Lived in Carolinas for 13 years. Storms down there are no joke.
Oh wow! Amazing and scary as hell at the same time lol! Glad you made it alright!
u r rite
That was an awesome video. I've been on that bridge too and filmed a storm that was just north of us - I love storms, but I'm sure I would be a bit tense on that bridge in high winds too.
That was terror if ever I have seen it! You’re getting blasted by near hurricane strength winds, lightning so close you feel like a sitting duck, and the wind driven rain was so brutal that you only could see 90 feet, OR LESS, in front of you! If it was a tornado, it was so rain wrapped, you would never see it coming if it was heading your way! Just glad, if it was you lived to share this, that was beyond dangerous, and you had NOWHERE to go to get out of it!,
I would have been scared as well, hate the Bay Bridge anway, even when there's no such storm. I'm actually happy YOU guys made it off the bridge in one piece that day.....
Peppy Power Yes thank God
What was so important to get to on the other side?
All the cars stopped at one point so the storm is beyond horrible
No, the drivers seem to have forgotten there were other drivers behind them. They wanted everyone to feel scared like them.
This is when people die. Look at El Reno tornado. People stop instead of pulling out the way. Ever person that wanted to get to a safe place could not because selfish idiots in front hindered them. Lots of trapped folks injured or dead.
Double panic attacks going on in the two cars at the front of the stoppage. So, they just stopped until they could see enough road in front of them to continue on.
@@GottaWannaDance The drivers knew there were other cars, but there's no place to pull over; there are no shoulders. We're people supposed to keep driving at regular speed when they couldn't see what's ahead of them?
Aren’t the cables supposed to be tight? When your stopped, they are waving in the breeze. That would freak ne out!
This isn’t a suspension bridge……8:10 is a suspension bridge. If the cables move on that one then start the countdown on your life ending
You got what we got in New Castle County, Delaware. What time was this? I was at home alone for once and went outside around 3:15pm and it looked scary and there was some sort of weather alerting siren sounding. There was a tornado warning for Northeastern New Castle County, Delaware and I believe a tornado watch for all of New Castle County, and part of Kent County, Delaware. Great video too. I hate that bridge! I couldn't imagine being stopped on it!
What an adventure!
Scary!! I hate this bridge on a nice day. Couldn't imagine 😱
I hate this bridge and tunnel.
Had panic attacks twice .
You would like it when it one lane each and the truckers took their lane and part of yours. Then throw in high wind, pouring rain. And you had a good time. I drove that bridge a lot
Looks more like straight line winds or a microburst. I live in NC we get that a lot. Been picked up and thrown into a light pole in uptown Charlotte by a microburst during a freak storm. You were brave to drive in that I wouldn't have moved
I live in nc to and we get a lot of freak storms
This was fun let's do it again ☺️
I lived over on the beach near there that year. I remember a storm around then where I seen many, many water spouts form over the bay.
Chesapeake Bay Bridge crossing from near Annapolis Maryland to Stevensville on the Eastern Shore....
I've read several times in the comments that the westbound bridge is scarier than the eastbound bridge. But I keep looking at videos trying to compare them and they look equally frightening
The span this video is the westbound span, which is the higher (and I think scarier) of the two. After you go around the dogleg bend at the beginning, the bridge is straight and goes up and up, almost 200 feet. The railings are only like 4 feet high and you can see through them, and they don't look like they'll stop a car. So you're driving up this bridge and you can't see where the crest of the hill is, so you'd never know in time if a section of the roadway fell like the bridge in Oakland in the earthquake. Then you hit the grating...
The two outer lanes have this drainage grating that starts a hundred feet or so before the top of the hill and ends about that far on the down slope. It covers almost half the lane and when you get to it, your car swerves a little, and it feels like it wants to go every which way while you're on that stretch. If you're careful, you can move a little to the right and straddle it, but then you have to watch that you don't get too close to the car to your right (when in the left lane) or bump into the base of the railing (in the right lane). I try to stick to the middle lane when I can't avoid driving across, but you have to watch out for tractor trailers; if one goes by, the wind will make your car swerve--not fun when you're near the top.
The eastbound span isn't as scary to me. It has jersey barriers instead of railings and the slope is more gradual. There's a section where the structure makes a sort of tunnel, but that's the worst part, so not bad. The absolute worst is when they reverse one of the lanes on the westbound span to handle some of the eastbound traffic. Then, not only do you have all of the scary parts of driving on the westbound span, but you get to experience it while you're driving against the traffic that's going by at 50 mph and there's only the yellow line to keep everyone where they're supposed to be. Scary AF.
Oh, and there are no shoulders on either span. If you have car trouble, you have to sit there and hope nobody comes up the hill, doesn't see you, and runs into you. Someone I went to school with was killed when her car broke down one night pre-cell phones and because she wasn't too far from the toll booths, she decided to walk there to get help. Some poor person didn't see her and hit and killed her. So I don't have the best opinion of the bridge.
Westbound is 3 lanes and eastbound is 2.
I don't blame you for being scared!
I've driven over this bridge many times but don't know if I would want to be on it during a storm like that.
been on that bridge in many storms, more fun at night
Such a great song!!!! Live in Baltimore and hate that fing bridge going down the ocean
Where is this bridge? And how old is this video? Thanks for letting me know.
Scotland where I stay in has The Queensferry Crossing ,The Forth Road bridge and The Forth Bridge that has and still is standing since 1890,That's 132 Years , Respect to the Engineers who dreamed these up ,These are bridges that can withstand the rainy Elements,But Watching this ,Ah ah noooo , Wouldn't like to be crossing this in these Elements , Lightning ⚡ also ,OMG😮
Back before they built either bridge, we used to have to cross over via ferry boat. Imagine being on a ferry boat in that storm. A buddy of mine spent 2 winters on the "old" span removing the decking and replacing it. It took 2 winters to do the whole bridge. The did 1/2 one winter and the rest the next. Summer traffic is greater going to the beach. He operated a hammer/breaker rig and busted the decking. Now that would be a scary career.
What a bootiful day it is
Day before my bday👍this video was made
I was prob like a few mouths old lol(june 20)
OH HELL NO!!!!!
Nikki Nicklus Thank you I would die
"Call your mudder, your not comming home!"
Btw... what bridge was that? It looked like in some parts was low to the ocean :(
It’s the Chesapeake bay bridge in Maryland
I’m curious to know if there’s a reason why everyone was driving in the right lane?
It could have been a microburst. Hard to tell since it's all shrouded in rain.
Wow that was crazy!! Im glad I wasn't driving in that..
i would be terrified
Did you just now confirm it was a microburst and not a tornado? Jeez, took 12 years to figure out that storm which i'm not complaining it was very confusing on what that was.
That bridge must give.... knowing it is made of wood...like a Pier 😮.....the two Snake Bridges .....side by side!!!!
There's a rumbling sound, like a train. Might have been an F-1 tornado.
Thunder. Emphasis on the 'duuuur'.
Dude, which brand wiper blades do you have? They work well.
Poor Wayne. Waiting over 4 years for an answer.
They do work well. It has an unknown/private name of the wiper blades.
Did you find the brand yet Wayne ?
Geez... that's one off the hook storm there. I'd be a bit unnerved too if I were stuck there on the bridge with nowhere to go
This is how you people in 4 wheelers get rear ended by tractor trailers. 1:57
+ImportRacing1985
Naw.
This is the day before I was born
Omg! No way.. I can’t imagine what that was like.. that’s EXTREMELY scary :(
not a tornado. that was what is known as a microburst, you can see it in the distance at 0:25. Many people confuse a microburst for a tornado. Basically it's straight line winds, this one however wasn't a big one.
No. Straightline winds are called Derecho. Microburst is 90° different.
Hell to the no no
Probably a good thing, I don't know where this bridge is, I'm scared of bridges anyway. 😮
At least you made it to the heavy duty steel structure. And not down where they are only guard rails. You are at th he safest part. Screw them cars stay there, the more down you go the worst it is
That is an enjoyable video. My family used to travel across this bridge all the time, but NEVER in this extremely adverse weather.
I drove the length of the CBBT 2 weeks ago today and I’m still trying to figure out why people think it’s scary to drive across. The most frightening thing to me was the toll to cross it ($18.00 each way)!
Several times over years of travel by car, I’ve been across the bridges and through the tunnels, and I wasn’t aware I was supposed to be scared to death. I always thought it was an engineering marvel and pretty cool. Glad I never drove a vehicle with more than two axles; the toll goes up drastically.
The video isn't the bridge-tunnel, it's the bridge near Annapolis. I wouldn't be afraid of the bridge-tunnel either.
@@lisagd22 here's the dash cam footage I took. czcams.com/video/nypjaEkEJTQ/video.html
@@grege9019 Yeah, that's the bridge-tunnel. Nothing scary about it. This video is on the Bay Bridge.
That was just a thunderstorm
Nah brah that was not just a thunderstorm. I live in VA we thunderstorms a lot. This was a tornado and we get those a lot too
AYO_JJDAMN not really we get bad storma
Did they make it? Or did they die out there?
They made it
but why on earth, the bridge authorities allowed cars in the first place. They must be aware of that storm, no ??
There are thunderstorms all the time. What's the big deal?
@@cmerton the storm was dangerous and there was a microburst
Looks pretty bad. I'd been scared to death. Anybody caught in this situation be careful stay safe.
I've been on that Chesapeake Bay Tunnel I used to live in Chesapeake Virginia
It's not the bridge-tunnel, it's the Bay Bridge near Annapolis.
🙏❣
Heh a friend of mine’s grandma looking at this with us just said ‘Boy that’s when you tune in the gospel radio station’
That’s a normal afternoon rainstorm in south west Florida. Mind you not on a bridge of that magnitude
I love it.. it’s fun
Povo corajoso! Deus me livre.
I had a panic attack crossing this bridge on a sunny day. Seriously.
Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope And more NOPE
I was born after this day
A few of the cars didn't have their lights on. That is so dangerous in weather like that.
There was a giant wall cloud- ie. a tornado that just hasn’t touched down yet- right in front of you at the beginning of the video!,
It’s like a freaking hurricane
"Where is everybody?"
Fear of fears.
ha right? once i started driving int he left lane everyone disappeared
According to DOT you may drop 5 MPH for every real hazard you are driving in... sever rain, slippery roads, lightning, darkness... 40 MPH drop in this case could be called for.
I would have kept going. Unless it got real serious
You a gangsta for staying in the outside lane god dam the wind on a regular day is some bull shit
That was gripping. Good driving.
Why doesn't this bridge close when it's severe weather.
People have said in the past that this is one of the scariest bridges in America but honestly I would say it's also one of the most dangerous because of it being so high up and obviously that's very dangerous during severe weather with high winds 😳😳💯
@@LethalShot3190
Your SBS right but still they never close it it's just they want people to cross the bridge and collect those tolls but someday when its very Sanger weather and people who get hurt on the bridge or worse than the state is going to regret being open to the public when it should be closed due to severe weather. Safety first to all drivers no accidents, no fatalities, no traveling on this bridge during disaster that it can cause. This bring should have a nickname called "The Dizzy Bridge" "The Scary Bridge" "The Elevator Bridge" because its high up and than down. Seriously someone should mention about this bridge to it's town hall or city hall and have a important meeting about safety on this big bridge when it's severe weather it's common sense for all.
I’ve been on this bridge during a microburst. And it was much stronger than the one on the video. I was scared
'I was scared' NO SHIT
It looks like he's heading east towards eastern shore the rural part of MD, I rather drive through this during the day than at night.
Lorenzo Moore they was going home on the bridge with there lanes
HOLY SHIT
I’d shit my pants
I wouldn't want too be on a sunshine skyway bridge on this day. Oh wait if it's gets really bad the fhp (police) closes that brigde down
If I was in a scenario I would be having a heart attack in the car.😰
Truly scarey!
*scary
Stopping is the worst thing to do. Just go slow and keep moving.
It was to windy and they couldn’t even see anything. They had to stop until things calmed down. But I would have kept going
Hell no!!!
I hate scary bridges
this is were a sportbike comes in handy. i'd split the lanes gun the throttle till i hit 190 SIIKKKKKKKKKKE! I wouldn't do that nor would i be cryin. i'd be playing my favorite songs until the storm ended