Posted on 07/15/2009 6:19:54 PM PDT by just me
A bridge over the I-75 in Hazel Park, Michigan has collapsed following a massive explosion after a gas tanker overturned.
Just sayin'.
I grew up in the 1970s in St. Clair Shores, a suburb of Detroit. All of Detroit's freeways are below street level, with either sloped earth side walls, or massive side walls made of concrete. All of the cross streets are bridges over the freeways.
Seems like a tanker truck a month would overturn, burn, and cause damage to the concrete retaining walls. This is nothing new for Detroit.
Just sayin'.
Wait a minute. Obama is in office now. AND he’s been throwing billions and billions of dollars around, promising to repair our “crumbling infrastructure.”
If the I-35 bridge collapse was somehow “Bush’s fault” (as the leftnuts claim), then this collapse if definitely Obama’s fault.
Damn, that looks pretty bad.
Lordy. We had a similar thing happen in Birmingham, AL a few years ago.
looks like a set from Terminator...
Wait a minute. The 9/11 "Truther" nuts say that fuel can't burn hot enough to collapse concrete and steel. So that can't be what happened here.
That's impossible. The "truthers" told us so.
GMTA (and still praying for any victims).
The police have also indicated that they believe the tanker truck took the wrong exit, or was forced (stuck in wrong lane) to take the exit.
IMHO, so far, it does not appear to be a planned action. It appears to be a deadly mistake.
They can't get close enough, due to the intense heat, to even tell how many cars , trucks, fire trucks, people are involved in this.
If no one has died in this, it will be a miracle.
Apparently gas is also flowing into the sewers and it is also on fire...
OH NO!!!
On the other hand, Islam is not a race.
Situation looks pretty bad - I hope that everyone survived.
omg...there’s no way anyone could have made it out of that truck and car!
Thanks for the updates. (All three of ‘em. LOL)
I can’t understand how a tanker would hit an overpass. Most gasoline tankers are under 12 feet tall and all overpasses, unless marked otherwise, are supposed to be 13 ft 6 inches.
Being in the United States Radical Islamic headquarters area, I would bet that some terrorist put bombs into the hose tubes on the truck and exploded by cell phone. (all sarcasm of course, but you never know).
http://www.freep.com/article/20090715/NEWS03/90715083/Tanker-fire-closes-I-75
....Radio station WWJ-AM says an overpass at the crash site collapsed after the tanker and a tractor-trailer collided about 8:30 p.m.
The station says several other vehicles were involved in the crash 10 miles north of downtown Detroit.
Witnesses say flames and black, billowing plumes of smoke are reaching 150 to 200 feet into the air and gas that has reached the sewers along the freeway also has caught fire.
Police are ordering onlookers gathered along the top of the embankments along the crash site to move back to avoid exposure to toxic smoke.
Dorothy Mirasolo lives in Hazel Park, less than a half mile northwest of the explosion.
“I heard an explosion. I was like ‘What the heck is that?’ At first I thought it was a car hitting a car. Then it sounded like shotguns going off and it was very close.”
She said explosions kept happening over the course of five minutes.
She along with hundreds of others went on the pedestrian bridge, about 1/4 mile north of the accident site to get a birds-eye view of the happenings.
It was there that she noticed the bridge had collapsed.
“To me, when I first got there, it looked like it was OK. All of a sudden I noticed it was down. There was so much smoke you couldn’t see it very well.”
Even if the truck driver turns out to be named Habib, I am pretty much sure this was a case of a driver forced off onto an unfamiliar exit, and ....scrapeeeeeeee...boom.
And as everyone else has been indicating, prayers for those involved, and their families.
Obama’s fault.
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