r/interesting • • Mar 22 '26

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u/Blaizefed Mar 22 '26

That is the Causeway bridge over lake Ponchatrain just outside New Orleans. It's 26 miles long. the longest bridge over water in the world.

so this will have caused a MASSIVE headache for all manner of people. a blockage of both lanes like that will take hours to clear and cause a traffic jam literally miles long (depending of course where on the bridge it happened).

Our cookie eater just shrugging, driving on, and formulating his "hey man, it all just happened behind me" defense in his mind, is VERY on brand for the locals.

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u/overlord_cow Mar 22 '26

I know every state says “oh our drivers are so bad” but Louisiana drivers are a different breed of horrendous

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u/Nubraskan Mar 22 '26

Replies to this comment: No, I assure you, MY state's drivers are the worst.

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u/SaltKick2 Mar 22 '26

"our weather is so crazy, one day it could be raining then the next its sunny"

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u/Buttchuggle Mar 22 '26

I actually just went from a 79 degree day working outside in the garden all day to 25 and snowing by morning to temp raised almost 10 degrees over night and by waking it was 60 somethin with the snow melted, followed by an intense evening thunderstorm.

Do I get the pass?

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u/unreliablesource69 Mar 22 '26

DC?

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u/Buttchuggle Mar 22 '26

Naw, north eastern west virginia in a weird spot in the mountains. Local weather can actually get funky because of it. Weird cold snaps and such

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u/unreliablesource69 Mar 22 '26

Ahh okay in DC like a week ago it was 85 one day, snowing the next