Popps Ferry Bridge had collapse.

**mtskier** · March 20th, 2009, 04:16 AM

The Coast Guard says it got a call from the Department of Marine Resources in Mississippi around 7:40 a.m. reporting that a section of the Popps Ferry Bridge had collapsed after it was hit by the Cheryl Stegbauer, which was towing eight barges.

Coast Guard Station Gulfport and Station Pascagoula launched 25-foot smallboats and crews to the scene. Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans sent a rescue helicopter and crew along with an HC-144A Ocean Sentry plane from the Aviation Training Center in Mobile to assist.

http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?...fc96fa5457f1fd

**Mikey** · March 20th, 2009, 04:45 AM

Thanks mtskier. Good find!

**10talents** · March 20th, 2009, 06:53 AM

I guess the eighth barge is on the bottom.

**Jemplayer** · March 21st, 2009, 10:21 AM

pops ferry bridge.jpg

A friend took that yesterday of it.

**aarosson48** · March 22nd, 2009, 01:59 PM

Glad I'm down here in Houma, not dealing with the hellacious traffic I am sure is being diverted to Pass Road from Popp's Ferry Rd....man that's nuts!

I just posted about this in the Tugboating forum, I don't know how nobody (besides the bridgetender, Ms. Johnson) was on that bridge when this happened, especially at that time, right when people are usually trying to get to school and/or work! It's one of the busiest roads we have on the MS gulf coast. *shudders* Lucky, lucky, lucky, that's all that was....poor Ms. Johnson, she had to be scared out of her skin when the bridgehouse started shaking.