Tjörn vattenläcka

TJÖRNBRON &#; Mot Stenungsund

TJÖRNBRON &#; Mot Tjörn

Tjörnbron &#; Mitt vid bron

Myggenäs Korsväg &#; Mot Tjörnbron

Myggenäs Korsväg &#; Mot Tjörn

Myggenäs Korsväg &#; Mot Orust

Gunneby &#; Tjörn

Stora Högamotet &#; Norrut

Stora Högamotet &#; Söderut

Jörlandamotet

Ödsmålsbron &#; Söderut

Ödsmålsbron &#; Norrut

Ödsmålsbron &#; Väderkamera

Huveröd &#; Stenungsund

Kalseröd &#; Orust

Månsemyr &#; Orust

Lyckornamotet &#; Norrut

Lyckornamotet &#; Söderut

The island of Tjörn, West Coast of Sweden. Island number 4 (out of ). Country number 3 (out of 25). Month 3 (out of )

One winter night 36 years ago the ship &#;Star Clipper&#; ran into one of the columns of the old Tjörn bridge causing it to collapse. Before anyone was able to stop traffic 8 people, in 7 cars, had died as their vehicles plunged over the edge into the ice-cold water 40 meters below.

I was only 12 when it happened but I still remember it vividly.

Some places just gets connected to a trategy for the longest time.

Like Waco, Texas. And, on a much bigger scale, Hiroshima.

In Sweden Tjörn is still very much connected to the tragedy of the Tjörn Bridge in

Today I visited Tjörn and drove over the new bridge that was built to replace the one that was ripped apart.

I stopped to read about the bridge and found out that the new bridge was opened less than 17 months after the accident &#; a quite astonishingly fast construction, at least for being Sweden in the &#;s.

When I read that I thought about how long it took for the USA to reopen the World Trade Center after the attacks of 9/

New York, 9/11 is another date and pl