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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: rface

I wouldnt doubt it!


201 posted on 08/01/2007 4:59:55 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: SkyPilot
Shep is misreporting....as usual. "It looks like New Orleans escaped Katrina almost unscathed! They sure dodged a bullet down here."

Shep is absolutely breathless. He's not the one to be covering this. He is just a bit too emotional.

202 posted on 08/01/2007 4:59:56 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Soon to be Fredbacker1)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Why is there a fire? Any idea?

It appeared that there was a tractor-trailer truck that hit a broken section head-on, and caught fire.

203 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:02 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

terrorist attach within 90 days (earlier today)


204 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:09 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: x

Thanks—I hadn’t heard about those.


205 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:11 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Thompson '08-- imwithfred.com)
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CELL Phone circuits across Minneapolis are overloaded and cell companies are requesting to stay off the phones unless necessary.


206 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:20 PM PDT by Solson (magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.)
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To: MplsSteve

Saying 50 cars in the river now.


207 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:21 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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To: GRRRRR

Check out the one silver car & the other red car nose down in the water to the left of the bridge!


208 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; LucyT

Terrible diaster. PRayers offered.


209 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:55 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Boycott China)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Truck tried to stop when the driver saw the roadway split in front of him. Could not stop and piled into a truck in front of it. Boom.

DOT reporting 50 cars in the river.

Bridge built in 1967.

They were working on the de-icing system on the bridge.


210 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:58 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
30-50 cars in river according to kstp radio. The kids from the school bus are apparently okay according to eye witnesses but I don’t know if there was more than one bus.
211 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:58 PM PDT by Perchant
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To: All

Channel 5 says that cell phone companies are asking Twin Cities residents to not use their cell phones.


212 posted on 08/01/2007 5:00:59 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: rollo tomasi

Don’t you suppose that there are bridges all over the United States that this could happen to, especially heavily traveled ones.


213 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:10 PM PDT by jaycee ("God's love still stands when all else has fallen.")
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To: null and void

Correct.

If one was a superstitious person. They might see something creepy here. MinneaPOLIS, MN and GalliPOLIS, Ohio. and then they might notice that both highways over the rivers were (ROUTE 35).

1967-2007.


214 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:14 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Good Lord! Just saw the aerial shot...thoughts and prayers...


215 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:18 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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To: sam_paine
okay.....stupid inspectors and/or lazy workers might be the culprit too.....

Where is Al Franken when we need him?

216 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:19 PM PDT by rface
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To: finnman69

It will be interesting to see how they rebuild this bridge. Will it become a reinforced concrete structure?


217 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:49 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: U S Army EOD
Gasoline in vehicles.

OK... thanks... tuning in late and I thought it was described as a larger fire than that.

218 posted on 08/01/2007 5:01:54 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: maryz

I’m with you. Why kick Shep when there’s death and destruction before us?


219 posted on 08/01/2007 5:02:17 PM PDT by Clara Lou (Thompson '08-- imwithfred.com)
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Span is 64’ above the river and is a single span done with an arch support. No supports in the water.


220 posted on 08/01/2007 5:02:18 PM PDT by Solson (magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.)
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