#Queen Isabella Causeway

[theboysfromaustin]

The 181 into Corpus ought to give me nice nightmares

We looked at the Queen Isabella Causeway collapse in one of my forensics classes

Don't like long bridges over water

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"¡Impactante! Inmensa Barcaza Choca contra Puente en Texas y lo Derrumba Parcialmente, ¡Desatando un Derrame de Petróleo!" ¡Wow! Amigos, saben que soy un apasionado de las cosas raras y extravagantes en el mundo del transporte, pero este incidente en Texas es algo que supera cualquier cosa que he visto hasta ahora. Un barco chocó contra un puente, ¡y parcialmente lo colapsó! Así es como sucedió, de acuerdo con este informe de Jalopnik: En Port Isabel, Texas, un remolcador llevaba dos barcazas. Una de ellas chocó con el puente "Queen Isabella Causeway", que es en realidad uno de los puentes más largos de Texas. El impacto dejó un enorme agujero en la parte inferior del puente, que se mantuvo así incluso después de que la barcaza fue retirada. ¡Insólito! Es difícil imaginarse el escenario. Cuando cubro coches, siempre miro sus características extrañas y divertidas. Pero, ¿cómo se vería esto en el mundo de los coches? Sería como...¡Imaginen un Hummer H1 chocando con un monumento nacional o algo por el estilo! Me sorprende que eso incluso pueda suceder. Este incidente en Texas es un recordatorio de que nuestros sistemas de transporte pueden ser a la vez robustos e increíblemente frágiles. El puente Queen Isabella Causeway es una pieza vital de infraestructura. Es el único enlace entre Port Isabel y la Isla del Padre del Sur, que es una popular área turística. ¡Solo imagínense estar atrapados de un lado de ese puente porque una barcaza decidió hacer un agujero en él! Pero a pesar del colapso parcial, el daño no parece ser total, lo cual es bueno. Parece que tienen un plan para repararlo, aunque sin duda llevará tiempo hacerlo. Y me imagino que ese remolcador estará en bastante problemas. Así que esto me recuerda a cuando revisé el Reliant Robin, ese coche inglés de tres ruedas que tiende a volcarse cuando gira. Mirando este incidente del puente, parece que los coches no son las únicas cosas que pueden tener problemas inesperados. A veces incluso los puentes pueden tenerlos. Recuerden, amigos, cualquier cosa puede suceder en el mundo del transporte. Así que para todos los conductores, siempre estén seguros y estén atentos. ¡Ni siquiera los puentes son inmunes a los accidentes! De todas formas, espero que este incidente se resuelva pronto y que todos en la zona estén a salvo. Y, por supuesto, deseo que este puente vuelva a su antigua gloria lo más rápido posible. Gracias por compartir conmigo esta extraña noticia en el mundo del transporte. ¡Sigamos buscando más cosas extrañas y extravagantes! #CarsAndBridges ¿Quién lo habría imaginado?

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Pastel South Padre Island, Texas Soft colors illuminate the Queen Isabella Causeway. As the sun sets, the bridge and car lights come on, outlining the only road that connects South Padre to the Texas mainland. On to the next one! instagram/twitter: @jicophotography facebook page: Jico Photography #jicophotography #southpadreisland #queenisabellacauseway #texasphotography #visittexas #travelphotography #visitsouthpadre #beachphotography #islandphotography #sunsetphotography #canonusa #canon5div #yourshotphotographer #texasphotographers #seascapephotography (at South Padre Island, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_imHDtlHb3/?igshid=dmba4dnzz28

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January 23, 2020

Up, over and along the Queen Isabella Causeway! It’s 2.37 miles long and reaches a height of 85 feet (we are coming down in this video). The causeway is the second-longest bridge in Texas.

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Documentary of Queen Isabella Causeway collapse wins multiple awards at film festivals | KVEO-TV

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Not Just for Spring Break: South Padre Island a Great Family Getaway

South Padre Island off the tip is definitely not a decent excursion goal in March and the principal half of April. Except if, obviously, you are an understudy. All things considered, South Padre Island is the spot to be.

For a considerable length of time, the little hindrance island, flanked on the west by Laguna Madre Bay and toward the east by the Gulf of Mexico, has had a notoriety for being a wild spring break hurl for youthful grown-ups looking for sea shore time, liquor and goods.

Be that as it may, the other 46 weeks of the year, South Padre Island is an extraordinary escape for couples, families and gatherings of companions.

The call of the sea is especially solid for landlocked Coloradans since when you live in the mountains, the ocean appears to be a characteristic spot to desert reality.

My family has visited a few times, with and without youngsters, and each time we leave, we begin considering when we can return.

The island informally brags some the most flawless sea shores around.

White sand that is light and fine exists in feet of the long series of apartment suites and inns covering the 34-mile coastline.

All over the shoreline are a lot of spots to lease an umbrella and seats and make a day of hanging out in the subtropical atmosphere.

The island has one of only a handful few sandcastle trails in the country, with stunning manifestations spread around town. Sandcastle-building exercises likewise are accessible

Genuinely clear, warm water with two sandbars empower beachgoers to walk quite a long way from the shore and still have the option to hold up.

While the surf is typically quiet, surf visitors and kite guests can post fruitful rides.

New water likewise requests to guests. Schlitterbahn Beach Resort is the island's top vacation spot, as per Adrian Rodriguez, representative and film magistrate for the south padre beach resorts convention center. The mammoth water park has outside and indoor hardware, including inland surfing, tough water napkins, bunches of slides and other dangerous enjoyment.

My children adored it. Grown-ups ought to be set up for swarms.

Travelers likewise can get their fill of the ocean from on the waves. Fishermen can angle all year from the cove side, on sanction pontoons, kayaks or from the dock or shore. Numerous neighborhood eateries will cook your catch your direction. The assortments cast an enormous net - redfish, pompano, dotted trout, whiting, red drum, snook, mangrove snapper and others - relying upon the season.

Vessels additionally offer eco-visits, dolphin watches, dusk serenades, privateer themed trips and buoy parties. The dolphin-watch trips merit the time and cash. Certain regions appear to ensure a locating.

We've additionally spotted dolphins while traveling over the 2.3-mile Queen Isabella Causeway, the sole roadway interfacing the territory to the island. Be that as it may, it's substantially more enjoyment and better survey on a vessel visit.

South Padre Island is named for a Catholic minister who set up a congregation in the mid-1700s and brought the main perpetual pioneers. In ongoing history, the island has deliberately been worked as a retreat. Indeed, it's in the city sanction, Rodriguez said.

Around 3,000 inhabitants live there all year, many working in enterprises that oblige as much as 1 million guests every year.

Visitors like the island since, "It's a good time for all ages," Rodriguez said. "Contingent upon what arrange you are throughout everyday life, there's something to be found for you on South Padre Island."

Notwithstanding Schlitterbahn, our children made some great memories at Gravity Park, which has go-trucks and a bungee ride; the Sea Turtle Inc. salvage with a wide range of rescued ocean life; and the Birding and Nature Center, which notwithstanding being an asylum for feathered animals has a gator and crabs in a characteristic, haven condition.

South Padre Island is known as the "Firecrackers Capital of Texas," with firecrackers shows each Thursday and Friday in the mid year from the sound side and Friday and Saturday evenings on Gulf's sea shore side.

There's additionally a wide determination of nightlife for grown-ups with unrecorded music and that laid-back tropical gathering climate.

Mid year brings uncommon occasions, for example, angling competitions, a sailboat race and hula artist appears.

We generally come back to our preferred eateries. Louie's Backyard, opposite Gravity Park, has sound side waterfront seating, a heavenly fish buffet, hand-cut steaks and a deck bar with groups.

Messy Al's is another necessary stop for our family. From shellfish on the half shell and bubbled strip and-eat shrimp to darkened fish tacos and po'boys, the nourishment is reliably acceptable. We weren't sufficiently bold to attempt the fish throats yet heard they were delectable.

Our No. 1 breakfast place is the Grapevine Café, on the fundamental avenue, since it has American and Mexican dishes, for example, Migas Mexicanas: fried eggs, corn tortilla strips, tomato, onion, jalapeno and cheddar.

Guests who travel via plane must fly into Harlingen or Brownsville, Texas, and drive to South Padre Island. In any case, before intersection the Causeway, stop in Port Isabel, for some shopping and Pirate's Pier, the state's longest wharf. There's a beacon, a few cafés with the best Gulf coconut shrimp and singed chicken and angling with rental posts, handle and trap.

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See SpaceX While Staying at Kinpadre on South Padre Island

SpaceX is just 40 miles from South Padre Island, within sight and sound of the actual launches. Our island, is the closest venue to the launch site. Kinpadre, our beachfront vacation rental is a perfect place for your family to enjoy  the many DELIGHTS that the island offers. More about viewing SpaceX follows.

What is SpaceX.

SpaceX stand for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. Its founder is Eon Musk. In addition to SpaceX, his inventions include PayPal and Tesla Motors (electric cars). As a kid, he taught himself how to program, and when he was 12 he sold his first software: a game he created. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2.

SpaceX is a private company that would like to provide space transportation for people and goods to the moon, mars, and beyond, for private citizens as well as the government. As part of this they need testing and launch sites, such as the one in Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas (approximately 40 miles from South Padre Island).

What is happening at the SpaceX site near South Padre Island?

According to a SpaceX spokesperson, “Every single SpaceX rocket and spacecraft is tested in Texas before flying to space and back again." “South Texas will play an increasingly important role in our efforts." SpaceX is building Starship at the site.

Starship is the fully reusable second stage and has an integrated payload section. Starship serves as a large, long-duration spacecraft capable of carrying passengers or cargo to Earth orbit, planetary destinations, and between destinations on Earth. Musk said he wanted to test this new vehicle, the Starship, at the company’s location in South Texas.

Where is the SpaceX site? Can I visit it? Are there tours?

(This is a very long, slow moving video.)

They don't have any tours as of now. At this writing, people are still permitted to drive to the very little town of Boca Chica. (Google Map location) According to Google maps, the drive from South Padre Island is about 55 minutes, 43 miles.  You can watch their activities through the fence. But when there are launches or dangerous tests scheduled, they stop folks from getting close. They block access to the roads and surrounding beaches and waters. SpaceX is now in the process of buying out the town and will likely restrict access to the town and the site in the future.

What are other options for seeing SpaceX?

There are websites for SpaceX enthusiasts.  Here you can see photos, videos, and view information. Or... you can stay at South Padre Island. Padre is only 40 miles from the launch site. You can see the rocket lit up on the assembly pad on a clear night when you cross the Queen Isabella Causeway to and from the island.

What is the best place on South Padre Island for viewing launches?

An amphitheater in Isla Blanca Park on Padre is the perfect place, and seems to have been built especially for this purpose.

Isla Blanca Park Amphitheater

What is the launch schedule for rockets at the Boca Chica site?

It depends on assembly and testing progress as well as weather. At this time no firm launch windows have been announced. According to an unnamed source, if all goes well, a static fire of the vehicle’s three Raptor engines could occur in early March, potentially setting a 20 kilometer flight within a few weeks of the static fire. The first commercial spaceflight for SpaceX Starship is scheduled for 2021.

[theboysfromaustin]

I'm thinking about going to the coast on our break, and I have four options.

Galveston is too close to Houston and I would rather stab myself in the face than go near Houston

South Padre is accessible via the Queen Isabella Causeway but we studied the collapse in my Criminal Investigation class and it scares me

So that leaves Corpus or Port Aransas

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Special Marine Warning issued September 16 at 7:58AM CDT expiring September 16 at 9:00AM CDT by NWS Brownsville TX

Special Marine Warning issued September 16 at 7:58AM CDT expiring September 16 at 9:00AM CDT by NWS Brownsville TX

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a special marine warningfor Waters from Port Mansfield TX to the Rio Grande River from 20 to 60 NM; Laguna Madre From The Arroyo Coloardo To 5 NM North Of Port Mansfield TX; Laguna Madre From the Port Of Brownsville to the Arroyo Colorado; Coastal waters from Port Mansfield TX to the Rio Grande River out 20 NM starting on 9/16/2018 5:58:00 AM. NWS…

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Friday traffic jam 👻 (at Queen Isabella Causeway)

[mysa]

Eight people died 16 years ago when South Padre Island's Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway collapsed, leaving 11 drivers falling into the water below.