Hurricane Deck Bridge

Below answer to Sep 07 question is copied from lakehistory dot info. It is a great site full of Lake of the Ozarks trivia, and pictures of the old bridges...

HURRICANE DECK is a nautical term associated with river steamboats. The hurricane deck was the uppermost deck. It provided a pleasant, breezy place to watch the passing scenery.

Steamboats plied the Osage River through much of the nineteenth century. Crewmen on these steamers named many of the prominent landmarks along the way. A certain long, flat ridge along the left (descending) bank of the river caught the attention of the steamboatmen. They came to call it the "hurricane deck" because it afforded quite a view of the river, and the wind always seemed to blow there.

Hurricane Deck ridge runs along the east side of Porter Mill Bend, between mile markers 37 and 38. Lake Road 5-36 follows the crest of the ridge.

PLEASE ANSWER IF YOU CAN. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME HURRICANE DECK ? THANK YOU.

man. I've been trying to get deck truss bridges to stay up in the simulator tonight and it's rare! BE CARFULL.

I now work just up hwy 5 from this bridge. The work has been completed for this year on the bridge it now has a new deck surface. The guardrails are quite rusted on the sides, but over all the bridge seems in good shape for all the traffic it gets. Its one of the most scenic views on any bridge any were. The design really does allow for a better view than other bridge types.

I have just purchased a sail boat and I'm wondering the clearance height of Hurricane Deck bridge at full 6:60 level....Please, also let me know the new bridge on 54 highway and also the height of the new toll bridge on the Lake of the Ozarks....thanks Jim Franklin