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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: steveo
that was a report from 2005.
To: Cindy
Channel 5 is talking about fatigue cracking on the bridge, in the beams & diaphrams supporting the bridge - report from 2006
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:13 PM PDT
by
coder2
To: tioga
FOX NEWS is doing the best they can.
How else can you present something so horrific ?
To: silentknight
Gawd people it wasnt terrorism.Didn't you say the same thing about the "car fire" at the airport in Glasgow?
To: MNlurker
325
posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:26 PM PDT
by
Son House
($$Proud Memeber of Vast Right Wing, Out To Lower Your Tax Rates For More Opportunities.$$)
To: BurbankKarl
Jesus wept. Some of the cars are on fire. God help those people.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:26 PM PDT
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: tioga
Channel 5 says that a 2006 DOT report says that there was cracking in the steel beams holding up the bridge.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
328
posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:29 PM PDT
by
angelcindy
(Where's the Fence?????)
To: Always Right
Great pic,,,that tells alot,,,thats an old bridge,,,
1967....Hey that’s not old.
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From what I can tell from the pics it’s old enough to have been put together with rivets,,,my guess is the iron was being replaced and put back together with bolts,,,
I’m gunna bet “Non-union” Iron workers,,,there was a thread about this awhile back,,,
329
posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:38 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: hole_n_one
What about the poor guy in the white car? How does he get out? (Set the parking brake?)
To: Palladin
I guess you missed the Mianus River bridge collapse on I-95 in Connecticut some years ago, and the Schoharie Creek bridge up on the New York State Thruway a few years later.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:59 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Reporter on Fox said it is worse than San Francisco’s Quake in ‘89.
To: numberonepal
Fox says construction was contained to the surface.A sleeper cell could have pulled it off with shaped charges planted by a small boat.
The sound of the detonation would almost go unnoticed in the noise of the collapse.
333
posted on
08/01/2007 5:15:06 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:15:08 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Terriergal
To: Weight of Glory
2006 inspection reported minor structural fatigue on the main beams. Per Channel 5.
336
posted on
08/01/2007 5:15:11 PM PDT
by
Solson
(magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.)
To: silentknight
Gawd people it wasnt terrorism. Yeesh these comments just make all of us look stupid. Please.At this point, it could be an engineering failure or it could be terrorism, or maybe something else. It's way to early to rule out any causes.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:15:28 PM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: BinaryBoy
Yep. More vehicles going up in flames.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:15:32 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
To: MplsSteve
Sounds like May 2006 there was an inspection showing cracking in the structure. Fire burning again.
To: sten
I agree about terrorism. People on the bridge reported hearing jackhammer-like sounds before the collapse. Multiple explosions of charges under the supports? Even earthquakes don’t cause this much damage all at once.
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