Travelling always sucks around holidays, and it gets exponentially worse when, I don’t know, a floating bridge sinks. And it happened 29 years ago today, on Thanksgiving.
Per KUOW:
In November 1990, the Lacey V. Murrow Bridge was 50 years old, and it was being refurbished. A new matching span had been built alongside and was already carrying cars across the lake, so the old bridge was closed to traffic for the renovation project.
Then, over Thanksgiving weekend, as often happens, a big storm blew in to Western Washington. By Sunday, the news from Lake Washington was bad. The Lacey V. Murrow Bridge was no more. Like the Hood Canal Bridge 11 years earlier, it had broken apart and sunk.