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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: Abigail Adams

Here you go........

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S168172.shtml?cat=1


2,701 posted on 08/15/2007 5:43:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thanks! Hubby is down in that area tonight, and he might try to see what he can see. Sounds like they were lifting sections of concrete today, so that would explain the findings.


2,702 posted on 08/15/2007 6:05:12 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams; All

Morning update....two vehicles recovered, with remains. I believe this includes last night’s recovery.

http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1366039.html


2,703 posted on 08/16/2007 9:34:06 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Looks like they’ve found someone this morning:

http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1371048.html


2,704 posted on 08/19/2007 9:49:25 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

An amazing feat, considering the rain the past couple of days. I’ve heard that these Navy divers are physical dynamos.


2,705 posted on 08/19/2007 11:59:57 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sounds like they know who it is that they found:

http://www.kstp.com/


2,706 posted on 08/19/2007 12:24:13 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: kwuntongchai
Don’t know that I can refer you to an exhaustive engineering lexicon. I have heard of engineering dictionaries, but I don’t have one. My references come from a combination of textbooks and field experience. The most general form of all the bridges discussed here thus far are trusses. If you read the first paragraph of the wikipedia entry cited, it says a cantilever can be made of trusses or steel or concrete beams. The truss cantilevering doesn’t preclude it from being a truss. The Firth of Forth Bridge pictured is a truss bridge. It employs cantilever sections over the piers to reach out and support the much shallower suspended or “drop-in” spans at mid-span. I disagree with the articles contention that the Jeremiah Morrow and Newark Bay Bridges are cantilevers. A cantilever requires a hinged section. It it not obvious those bridges have hinges.

The Newark Bay Bridge is an example of a Truss Arch. Think of it this way. Simple trusses don’t continue over their supports. Each span of a simple truss is independent. Continuous trusses are dependent on their adjacent spans, hence the height at the piers. Truss spans employing a cantilever (i.e. locating the hinge somewhere other than the pier) could be considered a hybrid of simple and continuous trusses. Sorry I didn't answer sooner. Your question wasn't shown as a new post to me.

2,707 posted on 08/19/2007 8:25:19 PM PDT by Clark857
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The last person has been found. Thank goodness that phase of the work is done.

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_232094818.html


2,708 posted on 08/20/2007 7:37:16 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

You have FRmail.


2,709 posted on 08/20/2007 7:49:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
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To: Abigail Adams; All

Today’s update......

http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1375093.html


2,710 posted on 08/21/2007 12:22:03 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Political Correctness Is Going To Get Us All Killed)
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To: All

10 year anniversary.


2,711 posted on 08/01/2017 7:16:07 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Should this be in Breaking News??

Links?


2,712 posted on 08/01/2017 7:19:24 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Freedom56v2

It was Breaking News 10 years ago tonight.


2,713 posted on 08/01/2017 7:21:19 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Wow...Why did you not clarify that...I have relatives there!!! Sheesh.


2,714 posted on 08/01/2017 7:23:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Freedom56v2

I posted an update to a 10 year old thread.

Certainly you know how to read thread dates.

;-)


2,715 posted on 08/01/2017 7:28:19 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Freedom56v2

Sorry for the confusion.

I live here, too.


2,716 posted on 08/01/2017 7:58:59 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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15 years later...

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/monday-marks-15-years-since-35w-bridge-collapse/


2,717 posted on 08/01/2022 8:59:45 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This sounds horrible. I think I might have driven over that bridge just last year.


2,718 posted on 08/01/2022 9:00:29 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,631,515 users on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76

15 years ago.


2,719 posted on 08/01/2022 9:01:32 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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