"The Bridge is Out"

[sirhugs]

it really is- 100 miles east of here, the brand new bridge joining Canada together cracked due to the cold.

area communities have opened emergency shelters for stranded travellers.

Just imagine what sort of inappropriate ways to keep warm or entertain themselves people might find.

Another version is that the title line is said by one of those creepy horror movie types who invites the stranded travellers to his cabin, where...

 

[Hypoxia]

A probably true story: Along the old road from San Diego east over the Coast Ranges to the Salton Sea, a bridge over a rocky ravine collapsed. The county put up a BRIDGE OUT sign. But after two years, nobody had driven off the edge, so they took the sign down.