Is the North Bound Bridge over the Santiam on I5 Safe?

I stopped in at my favorite haunt, the south bound rest area, just to leave food for the tabby on white, and gawk at the leftovers from the flooding. I was under the highway overpasses again, to see if the food I left had been eaten.

I had wondered about why there was water clear up under the overpass, where it meets the bank at the north end on the north bound lanes. It's a horizontal cement slab near the top there. But there's a lot of water on it. Not so on the south bound end.

Not only that, right in the middle of that cement slab, against the back, is a pile of wet gravel, pyramided, like it's falling through from the highway itself. But today, the corner of the square block of concrete that is one of scores of such blocks that form the bottom of the freeway bridge, right out from the pile of gravel, is cracking. I thought "holy shit" and got the hell out from under it.

I told some ODOT folks coming through they should check that out. They were there probably to clean up damage from flooding. But they said they were carpenters. So I just called ODOT's main dispatch and said I think they should check that out, see what's going on.

It's not like that pile of wet gravel there is new. It's been there the entire time I've been looking for Sophie, plus water on that slab, which I did think was strange, meaning it is coming through from the highway. That should not be. But now that crack in that slab next to the falling gravel, which is part of the bottom of the freeway, that spooked me out totally. I bolted out from under there, I tell you. I hope they check that out.

I'm no bridge engineer. I know. Didn't look normal to me, but what do I know.

If it's failing, wouldn't that be bad? But, if it's failing and caught before a collapse, due to the hunt for Sophie and a cat trapper, how strange would that be?