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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: Lady Heron
Superstructure Condition: Poor.
Substructure Condition: Satisfactory.
Scour: Foundations determined to be stable.
Bridge Railings: Meets currently acceptable standards.
Structural Evaluation: Meets minimum tolerable limits to be left in place as-is.

It also sounds like it was a disaster waiting to happen and if the work that was being done affected anything structural (which is entirely possible), then it could easily have resulted in this disaster.

1,961 posted on 08/02/2007 7:59:04 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: brityank

Bump for later, can’t get the video to load.


1,962 posted on 08/02/2007 7:59:05 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (eHarmony reject)
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To: spunkets

you state: “ie, the steel will not bend, it fractures.” But as Rosie has informed us, it doesn’t melt!


1,963 posted on 08/02/2007 7:59:05 AM PDT by GOPPachyderm
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To: spunkets

“he various interviews all say the roadwork was simply cosmetic resurfacing. That was not the case. The concrete sheet was being hammered and cut. That action caused the stress contained at those points to be redistributed to other intact areas of the sheet”

Your latter statements do not contradict the former. Just because actions RESULTED in failure does not mean they INTENDED anything beyond “cosmetic” resurfacing.

Otherwise, I liked your summary. ;-)


1,964 posted on 08/02/2007 8:00:24 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Don Joe

What do you mean tracking?


1,965 posted on 08/02/2007 8:00:25 AM PDT by Global2010 (No tagline today.)
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To: RoseyT
...the Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway in Louisiana. 18.2 miles over swampy, scary terrain.

I drove north out of Louisiana once on that bridge. It was freakish. I didn't know how long the bridge was when I entered it. After just a few miles it gradually dawned on me that I was still on a bridge. Scared the hell out of me for the next 15 miles.

Cordially,

1,966 posted on 08/02/2007 8:02:07 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: miliantnutcase

I bet your were glad to hear their voices.......I am glad they are ok


1,967 posted on 08/02/2007 8:02:52 AM PDT by Kimmers (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: DCPatriot

“Not when there are Rosie O’Donnell”

Steel doesn’t bend! And it definitely doesn’t crack!


1,968 posted on 08/02/2007 8:02:54 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: spunkets

Great explanation!


1,969 posted on 08/02/2007 8:03:44 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: SouthTexas
This morning I thought I would give FOX and Friends a second chance ........I watched for a few minutes and then turned to MSNBC, FOX just seemed so High School.
1,970 posted on 08/02/2007 8:07:07 AM PDT by Kimmers (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

“The same thing happened here in Ohio like almost 40 years ago.”

Was that the Ohio bridge in the movie, “Mothman Prohecy”?


1,971 posted on 08/02/2007 8:07:27 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Steel doesn’t bend! And it definitely doesn’t crack!

It doesn't?? Are you sure about that??

1,972 posted on 08/02/2007 8:07:57 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: voiceinthewind

Calls to and from 651 and 612 area codes here are tough to come by......


1,973 posted on 08/02/2007 8:08:07 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
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To: Charles Martel

Ah. The “Suicide Bridge.”

That’s the spookiest bridge I ever drove across.


1,974 posted on 08/02/2007 8:08:37 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats??)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

No, probably not. Minneapolis isn’t a city that has any appeal to Mooselimbs as a target.


1,975 posted on 08/02/2007 8:08:45 AM PDT by RockinRight (Fred's Campaign: A hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.)
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To: Milwaukee_Guy
$800 Million spent on Light Rail. Damn the consequences of neglecting infrastructure...

If the light rail works wouldn't it reduce the need for bridges and lower the traffic and increase the safety? Also, just because money is spent on item A it doesn't mean that item B would have had any more attention to it. In short, the connection you are making is a logical fallacy.

1,976 posted on 08/02/2007 8:10:07 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Prayers for the victims, those hurt, and the first responders.


1,977 posted on 08/02/2007 8:10:38 AM PDT by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: johnny7

YUK...


1,978 posted on 08/02/2007 8:11:10 AM PDT by Global2010 (No tagline today.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Check out #1936 (Regarding cracked steel)


1,979 posted on 08/02/2007 8:11:48 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: RockinRight; the OlLine Rebel

...but it sure is a juicy point of debarkation. This place is full of them. Enough to elect a Kieth Ellison.


1,980 posted on 08/02/2007 8:13:08 AM PDT by PeteePie (thinking about a name change...)
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