{"id":3511,"date":"2016-08-23T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2016-08-23T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T11:22:14","slug":"log-bridge-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2016\/08\/log-bridge-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Log Bridge Dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling around the Ubangi-Mongala area will bring you to having to cross questionable log bridges. \u00a0And when you have to cross them at night the uncertainty increases. \u00a0This situation in the short video took place in latter June on my trip to the CEUM administrative council meeting. \u00a0I was following another CEUM truck and they crossed fine, but as they completed the crossing the outside log on the driver&#8217;s side, R in the video, moved out and their rear wheel started to slip in. \u00a0The other driver and our helper worked to put the log back in place and secure it. \u00a0Now watch me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"crossing bad bridge at night\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/179270825?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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