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- Jan 1, 2018
Last year the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati that links Ohio and Kentucky over the Ohio river for Interstate 75 was closed for months after a semi jackknifed on the bridge and caught fire thus damaging a portion of the steel structure. The other nearby bridges across the river couldn't handle the amount of traffic that the Brent Spence carried that lead to long backups on adjoining highways or commercial freight traffic detouring by hundreds of miles.You mentioned bridges and railroads, it wouldn't take much if someone wanted to shut down the supply chain.
Interstate 75 is one of the busiest North-South commercial freight corridors in the USA as I-75 connects to it's East-West big brother Interstate 70.
Damage (not even destroy, just need to damage sufficiently) fewer than 5 bridges on 3 Interstate highways and you'd cripple the entire national supply chain.
It's terrifying how fragile the supply chain is.