Unusual Lightning Strike Hits Cable on New Greek Bridge
The bridge reopened Feb. 1. Work has begun on replacing the roughly 300- meter-long broken cable and another damaged cable. The $870-million, 2.25-kilometer-long link to the Peloponnese peninsula opened last August.
Lightning struck the top 25-centimeter-dia cable in the southwest fan of stays over the 286-m span nearest Rion, say investigators. It set the high-density polyethylene and wax corrosion protection on fire, about 100 m from the first pylon.