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Old 09-04-2007, 10:30 PM
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Three bridges, all on Stoney Creek in N Cal.
1st. near the end of the creek into the Sacramento River. At about 45 mph both ends of the bridge provided an incredible tummy tickler for us kids in the back seat of the car. We went over that bridge one million four hundred ninety-seven times! or every other weekend in both directions for 12 or 15 years.

2nd. The Stoney Creek Bridge that was eventually inundated by the waters of The Black Butte Reservoir when Black Butte Dam was constructed. It was an older, one lane creosote soaked timbers bridge that had a sign posted at each end reading
LOAD LIMIT
40 tons
You break it,
YOU BUY IT

3rd. The Stoney Creek Bridge one mile east of the home we lived in for three years when I was just starting school. A steel structure that served well on Highway 32 for many decades that finally was deemed too narrow and was replaced by a low profile embankment and concrete bridge.
A few years before the construction began I had a premonition about the bridge and its replacement. I awakened puzzled and concerned for a strange feeling that had overtaken and awakened me. About two years later I was driving along that stretch of highway and saw a change in the horizon in the vicinity of the home my family lived in. The road had been improved significantly and the bridges that I saw in my premonition appeared exactly as I had seen them. I immediately fell into tears and wept profusely for some unknown emotion.
Those are my bridges of Glenn County.
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