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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: rabidralph; All

The Pinheads at DU are already trying to pin this on GWB and Tim Pawlenty


601 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:19 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

The Chertoff meter is spiking while he runs to the john with major diarrhea.


602 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:25 PM PDT by Palladin (Judge Munley is a nincompoop.)
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To: Bushbacker1

A barge hit a suspension bridge (Sunshine Skyway) spanning Tampa Bay back in 1980. The drop was horrendous, but luckily there weren’t a lot of cars on the 1400 ft that collapsed. Here’s some photos.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060505/FEATURES14/60509005


603 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:37 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: BurbankKarl

I just heard Shep Smith say “Women and children and others thrown into the water.” Others? Others? Sorry to be picky at a serious time, but “others”?


604 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:40 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: AndyJackson
Second. If there were emplaced explosives of the quantity required for demolition of this sort, it would immediately be detectable. In fact you could smell it anywhere in the vicinity, without any difficulty whatsoever. Even well placed shaped demolition charges would be easily sniffed out, and bystanders would be under no illusions about what they were smelling.

Great point. Not to mention, that a terrorist with the ability and know-how (it's not as simple as it looks in the movies) to do this would have gone after a much more spectacular target.

605 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:40 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Always Right
I am shocked the Twins are playing baseball during this.

Death happens, life goes on!

606 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:40 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: All

An eyewitness being interviewed on Channel 4 says she saw quite a few dead persons”.


607 posted on 08/01/2007 5:41:41 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: mware

Good lord! Now they are looking at a freight car and saying they aren’t sure it’s not a passenger car. Are the broadcasters seeing the same images we are?


608 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:02 PM PDT by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: Halls
this is a huge disaster!!!!!!!!!

It is (prayers for Americans in the Twin Cities). And I just have not seen a bridge collapse this much all at once before. I'd think that it would have come down slower than all the sudden.
609 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:10 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Poser

It was about 94 degrees at our house. Yes it does happen here. I don’t know engineering-wise why it happens, but it does.


610 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:11 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: ninergold3
I’ll try MS-NBC...Shep is making me crazy.

Shep Smith could be a good game show host.

611 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:15 PM PDT by unspun (FREEP Bill O'Reilly about Iraq (and now, about FR))
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To: Poser
No, but concrete buckles and that could be a factor. Who knows? Here's a link to show where the bridge is:

Click for map.

Also, the bridge is a quarter mile from the Metrodome where a Twins game is about to get underway. Zoom out on the map and you will see it in the lower left hand corner of the map. Some of the traffic may have been people going to the game. Now there are thunderstorms are moving in. Sheesh!

612 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:16 PM PDT by Reaganesque (Romney for President 2008)
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To: Bushbacker1; RDTF

Just now watching the railroad tanker car under a collapsed section, and knowing that AlQaida probably has as many graduate structural engineers as it does physicians, I’d say it was probably terrorism ~ but it didn’t quite come off the way they planned.


613 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:19 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: alpha-8-25-02

O Lord, we lift up this situation to you. Please reach in and help those who are still alive to be rescued. Please shine a spotlight on those who are hidden. If anyone is trapped in the water, please lead the rescuers to them in time.

Please touch each person who has been hurt and restore them. We also lift up the families of those whose lives are lost. We release the whole thing to you. We can do nothing on our own. Please show your mercy and great glory in this situation. We thank you in advance for your blessed help. In the name of your holy Son, Jesus, we pray. Amen.


614 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:25 PM PDT by rimtop56
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To: angelcindy

Because it was posted here on FR earlier today and debunked and locked.


615 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:29 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
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To: mombonn
Just exactly what SHOULD HS or other LE say at this point?

Media is screaming at them "Is it terrorism, is it terrorism?"

I don't care if they are all Superman, at this point, H + 90 minutes, roughly, any central spokesman knows about what the rest of us know (unless, of course, someone was seen planes flying into the bridge, RPGs, etc).

Isn't the right answer, at this moment, "I don't know, we have no evidence of anything right now, we're working it as hard as we can, consistent with rescue." ?

And would not the media report that as "No evidence of terorism"?

Or would you prefer: "We don't know squat, but we're real suspicious of Muslims" as the stock reponse to any and all disasters (Texas liquefied gas, bridge grates anywhere, highway cave-ins, guys in NYC who blow up themselves and their house so wifey won't get it, etc., etc.)

There are real terrorists, and they do really bad things -- but there are also ordinary human disasters, in far greater numbers (at least right now).

616 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:30 PM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: DugwayDuke

Just so you know. I have been to DU and it seems like close to half the posts from minute one are of course blaming it on the administration or bringing the war into it. One of the first postings expressed concern only about if Al Franken was safe. There were actually two threads about that. I am nothing less than disgusted. Here’s hoping that casualties are minimal.


618 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:42 PM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: mylife

Figures.

Post some links...


619 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:43 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: GRRRRR

Holy Cow!
I’m glad you posted this, I can’t get anything to load.
I was out in my garden and had no idea!!


620 posted on 08/01/2007 5:42:47 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us)
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