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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4383160" data-attributes="member: 26737">My folks lived down there while the Bridge O’ Doom was closed/under construction. It wasn’t just an inconvenience, it was actually a public safety issue—Wadley’s in Purcell provides the ambulance service for the Lex area, so they had to open a temporary location on the Lex side while the bridge was closed. They also had to take folks to Norman instead of Purcell for the duration. (Not a criticism, just an observation—as you noted, a failure of the bridge while in service would’ve been a lot worse.)A friend of my dad’s was a retired oilfield welder, and he did a lot of the welding on the bridge while they were doing the emergency repairs to get it back open. He said the biggest problem they had was that you can’t weld rust to rust…The odd thing about that whole mess was that they had the I-35 and Asher bridges under construction when the Bridge O’ Doom had its emergency closure, so that one-lane bridge on 102 was the only bridge across the Canadian for about 50 miles in either direction that was completely open.</blockquote>