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| Burnside Bridge in Portland, open -- er, closed? -- for business |
No matter how often you've been warned about this commonplace event, it will still catch you off guard when you see it in person for the first time.
It throws your brain for a loop. It scrambles your perspective, however briefly, as if you've entered an alternate universe that Dominic Cobb would appreciate.
A horn sounds. A light turns red. A city stops. The pavement becomes downtown's newest skyscraper, defying gravity as it cranes upward, casting shadows on helpless masses of metal below.
And to think -- all of this so one lousy ship can continue its path down the Willamette?
Once you've stopped worrying that the whole procession is holding up traffic and making you late, though, you have an epiphany: This is downright awesome!
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