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Breaking: Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis
KSTP TV 5/ME
| 8/1/07
| Me
Posted on 08/01/2007 4:28:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Just turned on the news. 35W bridge collapsed in the Mississippi River. Cars, trucks, semis.....
Fires burning, tanker trucks, at least one school bus, more than ten cars......
Just now breaking.......
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 35w; breaking; bridge; bridgecollapse; bridges; btld; collapse; corrosion; engineering; infrastructure; jihad; minneapolis; mosques; mothman; prayerforminnesotans; rust; slownewsday; terroristattack; transportation; twincitiescell
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To: Shelayne
How does a whole bridge collapse?
This is just horrible.
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posted on
08/01/2007 6:55:49 PM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Dick Cheney should have gone hunting with Hillary." -- Yakov Smirnoff)
To: pillut48
Putting on my tinfoil hattoo many bridge collapses lately!!
You have any statistical evidence of a drastic increase in bridge collapses lately?
Heck when I was a kid in the late 70s, a fairly substantial bridge over the Choptank River in Denton MD collapsed, right after a school bus went over it.
To: RasterMaster
1,163
posted on
08/01/2007 6:55:57 PM PDT
by
defconw
( "God hasn't promised us tomorrow, but he has promised us eternity."- Tony Snow)
To: Guenevere
1,164
posted on
08/01/2007 6:56:00 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: Guenevere
Yeah, talking about need for thorough investigation.
H&C are doing a good job with coverage.
To: justa-hairyape
My point was that they ARE doing just that. However, they are NOT informing us of just that. You however feel the need to convey the companies public line. Fine. It is a free country.Well, it seems like a reasonable company line... it beats a rambling stream of consciousness press release every time a new thought occurs to them. ;~)
To: spunkets
That kind of temp doesn't effect bridges though. There's no kind of existing bridge defect that could be aggravated by a spell of 90F temperatures?
That seems like a bold statement to me.
1,167
posted on
08/01/2007 6:56:28 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(imwithfred.com)
To: quantim
Shudder!
Bridges don’t normally bother me, but just looking at that picture gives me the willies!
That sucker has way too much elevation.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
So... yes you can see it from the bridge that collapsed (before it collapsed I mean)?
I was sure that was the bridge I was on last week, they’ve had it down to 1 lane for a while and it was awful. But I thought it was made of concrete, not steel.
1,169
posted on
08/01/2007 6:56:39 PM PDT
by
Terriergal
("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
To: Timeout
One was completed in 1929 and a second span in 67. Which one collapsed?
Even so, faulty engineering shows up well before 40 years.
To: Guenevere
To: Texas Eagle
That’s a really crappy looking bridge.
Probably go back to the 50s.
1,172
posted on
08/01/2007 6:57:59 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
("We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them, I won't chip away at them" -Mitt Romney)
To: quantim
I always think of the guy who fell in the concrete footing when it was just poured, and died there.
1,173
posted on
08/01/2007 6:58:18 PM PDT
by
Terriergal
("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
To: CharacterCounts
I’m a local. This was the 40 year old span.
To: trussell
Thank you, trussell! What a beautiful post for this thread of such horrible news!
To: LonePalm
To: defconw
Heat+construction+onelane+rush hour=Disaster.
1,177
posted on
08/01/2007 6:59:06 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
To: Beelzebubba
To: txflake
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posted on
08/01/2007 6:59:29 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(Duncan Hunter for President 2008!!!)
To: mplsconservative
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