hurricaneagnes

Picture was taken by Paul M. Lewis working for the Potomac News.

This is not the Rt. 1 bridge. This was the "Iron Bridge" that was part of VA 123. It was replaced with a temporary wooden bridge erected by the Army and then replaced with the present bridge several years later.

Ajohnward is right this is not the Rt. 1 bridge.

Thank you all for clarifying it was not the Rt. 1 bridge! I remember this incident from about 1971 and Hurricane Agnes, Someone tried to convince me it was Rt. 1, but I lived in Woodbridge at the time and was evacuated - twice. We used to travel this route to Manassas.

Today, this is a pedestrian bridge crossing the Occoquan on the West side of the Town of Occoquan, just downstream from the Occoquan damn, connecting Old Ox Rd to the town. The Rt 1 South bridge, downstream from here, fell during Agnes, whereas the 123 bridge collapsed due to the flood.

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I doubt this photo was taken in Feb, 2012, probably 1972; the plane was disposed of in 1988. I was in Coast Guard in 1972 and stationed in Elizabeth City NC as was CG 1351 (the plane in the picture). CG 1351 was the first plane to be used on "Great Lakes Ice Patrol" (Project Icewarn, COAST GUARD/NASA/NOAA), in 1975; we flew out of Nasa's Lewis Research Center, Clevland Ohio.

Thanks for commenting. Yes, the photo is from Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The statement "This photo was taken on February 20, 2012 using a Nikon D800." is automatically added by Flickr from metadata describing when the scan was actually created (rather than the original image).