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While stumbling all over the place trying to get his footing and unable to, he ends up on his hands and knees to crawl back to safety. As he's making his journey and bridge swing violently he panics causing him to jump out of his car. He loaded up his car with his equipment along with his dog. But moments before that a news reporter decided to make a trip across the bridge. As the deck oscillated in an alternating twisting motion that gradually increased in amplitude until the d eck tore apart. Four months later after the bridge opening the bridge's main span finally collapsed in 40-mile- per-hour winds on the morning of November 7, 1940. Despite public concerns some did make their way over the moving bridge with little to no issues. City officials, the designer of the bridge, engineers, physicists, and mathematicians all told the public that this bridge was safe to cross. The motion continued after the bridge opened to the public, despite several damping measures. What made this bridge so interesting the time the deck was built, it began to move vertically in windy conditions, so construction workers nicknamed the bridge Galloping Gertie. In its short life span, at the time it was the world's third-longest suspension bridge behind the Golden Gate Bridge and the George Washington Bridge. In 1940, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also known as Galloping Gertie. I ask if you can indulge me for few seconds on a history lesson to really drive my point across. Before I get into the topic of g etting out of the friend zone.