And the metal beast chewed through the wall into the deepest blackest pit. Onlookers could not see the beast due to the smoke from her hellfire. Everyone shuddered. The moment of reckoning was upon them.

Don't think of it as losing a tunnel, think of it as gaining a Hellmouth!

Oh, that's not a hellmouth. THIS is a hellmouth: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-g…

This is kind of exciting if you're an engineering fanboy.

Wait, we can't get a monorail, an NBA team OR a hellmouth? For fuck's sake, Seattle, get your shit together already!

Seriously, that is very very cool, Fnarf.

I can only hope that dorky munson from KIRO is deeply depressed that Bertha didn't fail after all. He was hoping for a total disaster and that Bertha would self destruct. GO BERTHA!

GROSS

Also in contention for battle of the True Hellmouth Erta Ale, http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura…, or its Antarctic counterpart, Mt Erebus, http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mt-er…

Steam, or smoke? Are we sure it's not whatever's left of the cutter head and bearings burning up? Any first-hand reports on what it smelled like?

Cutting through concrete generates a lot of dust

@5, there's still plenty more distance for Bertha to fail.

@5: There's a room full of disappointed people at the Stranger as well.

This tunnel will be complete in two years and then we will find another large-scale project to fret about. I can't wait to roll through this thing on the daily.

Dude, I'm pushing 2 years old. A little late to be "crowning." But good to know the mentality at The Stranger is roughly that of an 11-year-old boy.
BTW, suck it, haters!
@BerthaDeBlues

@10 is correct- the probability actually increases as we go forward

@11 Why be disappointed? Bertha aka (dorky munson) the KIRO people want to re-name Bertha after the extremely unpopular and stupid republican show boater (fat) noon to three idiot that should have been fired many years ago. People refuse interviews with him because he's such a jerk and why he's still at KIRO is a mystery to me.