Posted on 08/03/2007 6:51:46 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Click here for live camera. The camera updates every 5 seconds or so. The link doesn't bring you straight to the camera though. When the map comes up, find 35W and where it intersects with 394 and head north from there. The second and third dots above that intersection are the northbound and southbound cameras that cover the bridge. I imagine MNDoT has pictures of the bridge collapsing.
Looks like the traffic is clear........
Only minor delays...
It’s Camera #628
That gives a different perspective. Thanks for the link.
> I imagine MNDoT has pictures of the bridge collapsing.
If the cams are time-lapse, they may have missed a lot.
And even if they are high-rate, and wireless, they would
likely have lost power early in the failure.
But keep asking. The more pictures found, the earlier a
cause can be determined, and the blame game can focus
on reality instead of politics.
Stuff fails, eventually.
Does it give warning or not?
Does it fail gradually or rapidly?
Does it fail gracefully or catastrophically?
It’s clear in this case that we have
“design for disaster”, even if the proximate
cause turns out to be something the original
CEs could not have anticipated.
> I imagine MNDoT has pictures of the bridge collapsing
Someone does:
http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_6537627
“[NTSB chair] Rosenker said there are at least three
additional videos available of the collapse.”
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