VIDEO of Bridge Collapse

US Army Corps of Engineers; AP, Comcast.net ^ | August 2, 2007 | n/a

[Lancey Howard]

This was no slow collapse. It is horrifying.

[Lancey Howard]

Click on the link above and follow to “VIDEO: Tape shows moment of disaster”

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

ping

[nmh]

http://www.comcast.net/home.html

[GulfBreeze]

That’s the crappiest page I’ve seen. Keep tryin to do the video but just keep gettin’ run in circles on the page.

[Roccus]

I had to un-block pop-ups, then click on the video.

[gunservative]

Here, too:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/02/vosli.mn.i35w.bridge.collapse.side.view.cnn

[Pete]

The key here is that the North end collapsed first and brought the rest of the bridge down after. Also, a witness reported a “bang” and a plume of smoke before the collapse (reported by the guy who had gone under the bridge and 40 seconds later it collapsed. I suppose the bang could have been the North end landing on the ground and the plume was the dust seen in the video.

[Red Badger]

I had to un-block pop-ups, then click on the video.

Using IE7 or Mozilla Firefox?........

[Bahbah]

Thanks.

Great screen name.

[Lancey Howard]

Try here, and scroll down on the left-hand side:

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/08/02/729846.html&cvqh=collapse_trapped

[InvisibleChurch]

can you just bypass it by holding Ctrl while clicking on it?

[GulfBreeze]

Sorry... I got it. It was my pop up blocker... >blush<

[Lancey Howard]

Umm. Make that, “the right-hand side”. Sorry.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

why do I care about a Bollywood reality show?

[Roccus]

Computer illiterate here. It’s on my Google toolbar if that’s any help.
I only use my ‘puter for internet access and photography. (Windows XP)

[Paperdoll]

Thank you for this excellent link.

[Red Badger]

You are probably using IE7 then......You won't have those "problems" if you switch to Mozilla's FireFox!.....

Available FREE DOWNLOAD:

http://www.mozilla.com/

[Roccus]

Yeah..that works too. Thanks for the tip.

[Aquinasfan]

Anyone heard any theories as to why the bridge collapsed? I always worry about maintenance when I cross a steel bridge. Rust does bad things to steel bridges that don’t get repainted frequently.