View of the bridge from the road runs underneath looking from north to south on the right side of the bridge.
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.......
Was Tourist Guy there?
Span: The length of the longest section of bridge over the river is 390 feet.
Vertical: The bottom of the bridge is 60.1 feet above the normal level of the river so a 60 foot tall boat can pass under it. The river is dammed up to keep it deep enough for barge traffic. The “Normal Pool Elevation” is the usual level of the water upstream of the dam.
I can’t go back and read all the posts right now...it may already be here but on AOL, they say the kids got out thru the back exit door.
Thanks... It seems like very concise, clear English to me too.
All construction workers that were on the bridge accounted for except for one.
I don’t necessarily buy the construction thing, the heat thing, and the one lane thing.
1. Bridge work was being done on the deck on top of the bridge. The actual supporting structure was not being worked on.
2. The traffic was moving slowly. One lane worth to boot. Therefore there was less compression from fast moving traffic. The slower the traffic the less the bridge deck bows and shakes.
3. These bridges should be fine in the heat. It is hot, but not that hot.
FWIW
That girl needs to be retired to the Drama Queen closet.
How did I miss that? How sad.
Hello!
The earlier aerial shots showed the back door still open
Why isn’t Fox showing the press conference?? I’m watching it on msnbc
Inspection report last year indicated cracks in the structure.
View of the bridge from the road runs underneath looking from north to south on the right side of the bridge.
Well, I hope thats wrong but it would clear up some very early conflicting reports.
It's neither good or bad. It's just the way of things.
Among the first bridge designs was the stone arch. Take out only one stone and it collapses.
The cute guy on Fox 9 the stre3am just sitting there twiddling his cute thumbs for a long time..
Are the kids safe from both buses? Being a parent of a child on one of those buses would be nightmarish about now.
Here is a report from 2004 showing cracks on that particular bridge, if I’m reading the report properly.
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/const/tools/documents/completereport.pdf
Look at the photo on Figure 10, page 9 of the report (page 12 in my Adobe Reader). It’s a photo from 2004 showing cracks in the I35 bridge in St Paul. I’m assuming it’s the same bridge as this one that fell today.
Well now, I didn’t know that. Can I retract my post?
That can be gained easily by downloading the anarchist cookbook from the web.
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