Yesterday's flowing Moebius strip morphed overnight to a fossil. The downstream circle, visible above, remains, now frozen. Water now moves over the ice along both banks, while the center has become a temporary island.
I met Brad again, the senior worker on the project to strengthen the bridge by replacing the stabilizing steel cable system below the wooden roadbed. He told me they were done, except for removal of the scaffolding. He asked me if I was the one doing the blog, and showed me on his phone images of the bridge underbelly, laced with new steel lines.
With justifiable pride, he displayed shots of the heavy duty brackets, cable connectors and individual cables themselves which now crisscross the base of the bridge. Brad and Alex, his assistant, did this work while negotiating narrow aluminum scaffolds suspended above the river, sometimes in single digit temperatures. Nearby they placed an aluminum dinghy in case someone needed rescuing, not much use when the river iced up.
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