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Lizzie Poppet

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47. It's not really the access over the bridge...

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 08:30 PM

Jul 2015

...it's the massive, widespread clusterfuck that traffic anywhere near the bridge will become when people can't get across. You've seen, I assume, how bad it gets (particularly on the St. Johns side) at rush hour on a normal day. People unwittingly approaching the bridge on their usual commute, unaware of the situation, are going will be getting backed up, I suspect. Tempted to ride my bike up there to see...

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Breaking: Portland police, fire, and Coast Guard facing off against Greenpeace activists [View all] grasswire Jul 2015 OP

Thanks for the heads up! Watching it live now on the tv machine neverforget Jul 2015 #1

the high wire rescue team is getting in place grasswire Jul 2015 #5

Just confirmed he's going to be one of the firefighters rappelling neverforget Jul 2015 #9

WOW grasswire Jul 2015 #10

Lol! no kidding! make for great footage neverforget Jul 2015 #11

Interesting development. Rex Jul 2015 #2

live stream G_j Jul 2015 #3

Thank you very much for this information. oldandhappy Jul 2015 #36

Is this the same ship that had the 3' hole in the side? n/t Suich Jul 2015 #4

Yes, repaired at Vigor dry dock MissB Jul 2015 #8

Thanks! Suich Jul 2015 #18

one protester just arrested grasswire Jul 2015 #6

police boats occupying the center channel... grasswire Jul 2015 #7

MORE KAYAKTIVISTS ARRIVING! nt G_j Jul 2015 #12

This is going down about four miles or so from my house. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2015 #13

It's downstream from my back yard. grasswire Jul 2015 #14

They are all heroes, and I wish I lived nearby so I could resist the Motherfrackers Zorra Jul 2015 #15

me too! G_j Jul 2015 #17

... Zorra Jul 2015 #20

there are interviews of the kayaktivists hopemountain Jul 2015 #37

more fire dept arrived grasswire Jul 2015 #16

Mayor Hales is on the bridge and a P.A. system is being set up. grasswire Jul 2015 #19

KGW TV later corrected this. grasswire Jul 2015 #50

protesters are being offered the chance to leave voluntarily nt grasswire Jul 2015 #21

firefighter has been lowered down... grasswire Jul 2015 #22

The protesters seemed to have lowered themselves past their equipment G_j Jul 2015 #23

To you locals... EX500rider Jul 2015 #24

your concern G_j Jul 2015 #25

More like reality then concern.... EX500rider Jul 2015 #26

I suspect that it can be rerouted. Igel Jul 2015 #33

It's a reasonable question. Igel Jul 2015 #32

people second guess every Greenpeace action G_j Jul 2015 #39

meticulously planned out you say? retrowire Jul 2015 #46

Main channel of the Willamette. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2015 #28

So does the block the majority of the commercial shipping or is that downstream? EX500rider Jul 2015 #30

It woudl block a very great deal of it. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2015 #34

uh......... grasswire Jul 2015 #38

It's not really the access over the bridge... Lizzie Poppet Jul 2015 #47

Zowie. Thanks. oldandhappy Jul 2015 #27

All heroes including the firefighters AllFieldsRequired Jul 2015 #29

+ Infinity (NT) Octafish Jul 2015 #31

the river was closed to traffic grasswire Jul 2015 #35

I'm cheering for Greenpeace! Omaha Steve Jul 2015 #40

The way I see all this fredamae Jul 2015 #41

yes nt grasswire Jul 2015 #44

Thanks so much... Thespian2 Jul 2015 #42

"But now things have heated up significantly." < Of course, this is what such activists were trying jtuck004 Jul 2015 #43

+1000 tex-wyo-dem Jul 2015 #45

What we need to be talking about is the economics of living in the future. What we had jtuck004 Jul 2015 #52

And now the kayaktavists are back in the middle of the Williamette neverforget Jul 2015 #48

LOL grasswire Jul 2015 #49

Did you see the guy with the shark floaty? neverforget Jul 2015 #51

I used to be a canvasser for Greenpeace Downtown Hound Jul 2015 #53

For real, even sadder when you consider how much of that money raouldukelives Jul 2015 #54

Wonder what their total fine bill ended up being for their great effort in Portland. lonestarnot Jul 2015 #55