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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

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To: Poser
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?

It's really 1984. A few of the "live" feeds are actually black and white rebroadcasts from the 1960s, colorized for 2007. /sarc

641 posted on 08/01/2007 5:44:54 PM PDT by jdm
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To: advance_copy
And I just have not seen a bridge collapse this much all at once before

I remember the Silver Bridge disaster in Ohio/WV so many decades back. Once they start coming apart, they do it quite quickly. Physics is unforgiving. Go look at the World Trade Center for proof of it.

642 posted on 08/01/2007 5:44:54 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: mylife

and imagine what they are saying about some of the hysterical alarmist posts in this thread


643 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:08 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: abner

A dam failure years ago could certainly cause this if the current work altered structural loads in ways the engineers didn’t consider.


644 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: jdm

They haven’t changed that since last year on 9-11. Don’t think their streaming site is a high priority for them. But you don’t have to listen to Shep. :-)


645 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:11 PM PDT by casino66 ("We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit.")
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To: BurbankKarl

GOODGAWD, Burbank! Do you want o’reilly monitoring this thread for hate-filled posts??!! He’s gonna tattle on you BIGTIME! lol!


646 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:14 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness ( Bumper sticker idea: Hillary/Obama Nation '08. Let the desolation begin)
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To: Dead Corpse

From the news, it was full but all the kids were evacuated unharmed. {assuming there is only one school bus}


647 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:14 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: hole_n_one

Good info


648 posted on 08/01/2007 5:45:58 PM PDT by don-o (Do the RIGHT thing. Become a monthly donor. End Freepathons forever)
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To: fatima

Thank you fatima!!!


649 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:02 PM PDT by jackv (DEMOCRATS HATE BUSH MORE THAN THEY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY!!!)
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To: Cecily
I’ll bet the people in the Charleston, SC area are thankful for their brand new Cooper River bridge just now. The old one might have been perfectly sound, but it seemed to be getting creakier by the year.

For what it is worth, the old Cooper River Bridge itself suffered a tragedy when it had 240 feet taken out by the freighter Nicaragua Victory in February 1946, with one car going off the bridge:



Ghosts

Chilling encounters may continue long after bridge is gone
BY KATIE AVON MILLER, Of The Post and Courier Staff

Shortly after the new Cooper River bridge opens, both of the old bridges will come down. But what about the spirits that dwell on them? Will they vanish or relocate and haunt the new bridge?

On Feb. 24, 1946, the Nicaragua Victory was anchored upstream from the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge. The engines were shut down as the 12,000-ton freighter awaited repairs from an earlier accident.  A thunderstorm began to rattle the ship. The night officer ordered the anchor chains loosened; instead, the anchors were accidentally yanked out of the mud.  The freighter drifted downstream, picking up speed as it moved toward the bridge. With the engines shut down, steering or stopping was impossible.

On the bridge at this time were two cars and an Army mail truck. The ship struck the bridge, but the span didn't fall right away. The first car made it safely to Charleston. The driver of the mail truck leapt from his vehicle and ran back down the bridge. The Lawson family was not so lucky. When the Grace Bridge began to fall, the family's dark-green 1940 Oldsmobile had just reached the highest point of the bridge. Elmer Lawson was driving. His wife, Evelyn, was in the passenger seat. His son, Robert, daughter, Diane, and mother, Mrs. Elmer R Lawson, were in the back seat. An onlooker said that Mr. Lawson stopped the car, then began to drive, obviously unsure of what to do. The green sedan plunged 150 feet into the cold water of the Cooper River. It was not until March 19, 1946, that the car was discovered, with all five bodies still inside.

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650 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:02 PM PDT by snowsislander
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To: DugwayDuke

The greedy plaintiff lawyers were going to be all over this from the moment it happened.


651 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: RDTF

Cnn ,, 3 confirmed dead at this time..


652 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Welcome to FR. The Virtual Boot Camp for 'infidels' in waiting)
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To: dawn53

That bridge is right smack in my “backyard”, can see the new one from my windows.

That was a horrible event.


653 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:17 PM PDT by TaxxMann (THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GUARANTEE FAIR SPEECH, IT GUARANTEES FREE SPEECH)
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To: wagglebee

This is not spectacular? In the terrorist game, something like this strikes fear into the hearts of everyone who has to drive over a bridge every day.

The psychological wallop is terrific.


654 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:24 PM PDT by Palladin (Judge Munley is a nincompoop.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Shep is making YOU Crazy? me too...deep sigh. Why doesn’t Fox dust off Brit Hume or someone more senior for this kind of breaking news? Does anyone think he’s driving away viewers (besides me?)??


655 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:36 PM PDT by AZGunSlinger
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To: All

Channel 5 is reporting that a structural collapse rescue team is gathering at the souther end of the bridge collapse.


656 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:42 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

my folks were on that bridge at 5:30


657 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:45 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Abigail Adams

“Sometimes in very hot weather here the highway surface will buckle upwards, making a ridge in the road.”

Roads here, both tar and concrete buckle and blow up on a regular basis in the summer heat. Has a lot to do with how cold it gets here in the winter.

Expansion and contraction thing.....


658 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The "Flyin' Imams" since 11/20/06)
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To: small voice in the wilderness

You think I care about that runt?


659 posted on 08/01/2007 5:46:57 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: All

Don’t know why everybody is taling about terrorism. We know it is Bush’s fault.


660 posted on 08/01/2007 5:47:00 PM PDT by casino66 ("We'll succeed," Bush added, "unless we quit.")
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