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5 crushed to death in collapse of overpass
Waterbury Republican-American ^
| October 2, 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 10/02/2006 7:58:06 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: TalonDJ
Why? The dispatchers didn't know the overpass was going to collapse. Like I said, it's an extremely rare event. If the debris was bad enough it would have caused traffic to shut down on its own.
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10/02/2006 9:06:18 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: sittnick
Maybe he calculated it using metric "tonnes".
Either way, it hurts.
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10/02/2006 9:12:44 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(If the Democrats were a stock, I would short them.)
To: Graybeard58
Were the guys in charge of the Big Dig also in charge of this?
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posted on
10/02/2006 9:12:57 AM PDT
by
shekkian
To: Icthus
To: sittnick
Since this article is from Canada, they were probably using metric tons (1000 Kg). This would increase the total by about 10%, but this probably wasn't what was meant by the "check the math" person.
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10/02/2006 10:25:34 AM PDT
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3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: 3niner
Since this article is from Canada, they were probably using metric tons (1000 Kg). This would increase the total by about 10%, but this probably wasn't what was meant by the "check the math" person.
The article was printed in Connecticut, and the span length is indicated in feet (as in 65 feet), so I would presume that the other measurements (ESPECIALLY those that are the same or similar to U.S. equivalents) would be rendered using the U.S. standard. The usage of "metric tonnes" betrays the original premise of the metric system, anyway. The system was supposed to simplify things with a consistent use of base names and prefixes. They really should use megagram instead of tonne if they really believed in these principals.
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10/02/2006 12:34:56 PM PDT
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sittnick
(There is no salvation in politics.)
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