Walnut Street Bridge collapse, Harrisburg PA 1996

VCR to tape one of the most dramatic images of the flood of 96 you may have seen our home video of the Walnut Street bridge collapse but for the first time we're going to run the whole thing in its entirety take a look it's gonna have got a bridge I am yeah Wow those people better get off that bridge yeah people want it yeah someone run across it right now really what here okay here okay and you got a picture but yet but I will having in slow motion here okay it is one of the key technology Oh kids last summer was lost on the first riding her bike across there yeah that's good thing he's calling 9-1-1 yeah Oh ah people just walking across there looking at there's people just standing there looking at bridge coming up I can't believe it therefore this another another going but they're standing there taking pictures there's other people still Jelena have to get off there's some guys standing there taking pictures or what's going to happen when it hit I soon find out right here it's just about the hit Market Street bridge here it goes just a couple seconds there's a cop there's a cop on the bridge there's a cop on the bridge yeah unfortunately yes just demolished that was about a hundred 40 tons I think that just crumpled up surprisingly fast too obviously we're gonna have that for many many years and we thought you would like to have it for your type your file tape as well and we should say Teresa koppenhaver of Lemoine shot that remarkable video from negli Park did a great job sure did one more note dolphin deposit Bank is starting a trust fund to raise money for the restoration of the Walnut Street Bridge

Channel: Donovan Meyers

Views: 635,167

Rating: 4.714663 out of 5

Keywords: walnut, street, bridge, harrisburg, camp, hill, market, flood, ice, blizzard

Id: 6DxG9yOS1dQ

Length: 4min 9sec (249 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 24 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/CobraOnAJetSki]

No one can defeat the quad laser. The bullet is enormous, there is no escaping!

[u/hoguenstein]

Bitch! I got the CAMERA!

[u/TaruNukes]

Mothman did it

[u/Hizoot]

Used to be able to walk across the river... it was a great walk... all lit at night...sad they never rebuilt it... of course this town should’ve built a dam and created more boating and fishing but didn’t do that either…

[u/smitty3z]

That other bridge went nom nom nom.

[u/Hizoot]

Thank god I moved

[u/CastingCough]

Those birds are super chilled at the whole thing

[u/OutdatedElements]

Its incredible how far broadcasting quality has improved since 1996. This quality has far more in quality with broadcasting from the 60s or 70s then the present day.

[u/Hizoot]

No wonder the suicide rate is up.....