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.......
I don’t care much for Shep- but he seems to be doing pretty well with this- it’s an unbelievable scene to be covering..whether remotely or on location.
Prayers.
Here’s the link to KARE 11:
http://www.kare11.com/video/player_live.aspx
Guy just said he saw Homeland Security guys pull up while there.
Called my wife on her cell here in Milwaukee. She is at our church’s Wednesday evening prayer meeting. Prayers are being lifted up!
Ping.
PRAYER PING!
FOR BRIDGE COLLAPSE VICTIMS,FAMILIES AND RESPONDERS!
MAY THE LORD KEEP THEM ALL IN HIS HANDS!
No, but I fear for the guy they keep talking about with the jackhammer.
The first thing hubby said was “Look at the tankers and the cement truck! All that weight!”
Someone on the bridge said it was bumper to bumper traffic, and he was going to the Twins game!
I am just stunned.
Not terrorism. It’s the “heat wave.” Global warming. Bush’s fault.
A steel member in a structure is typically designed to accommodate 40% more than its anticipated "dead" load and 70% more than its anticipated "live" load.
Alberta's Child, P.E.
“you were expecting Bill to start his show with his apology to FR?”
No, just OReilly’s ‘soft’ news.
Shep’s voice has lost the drama that he was emoting earlier.
http://media.startribune.com/smedia/2007/08/01/19/621-02bridge080207.doublewide.prod_affiliate.2.jpg
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1338294.html
By Star Tribune staff, Star Tribune
Last update: August 01, 2007 – 7:09 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Workers have been repairing the 40-year-old bridge’s surface as part of improvements along that stretch of the interstate.”
hep is doing great. This is a major catastrophe, with no sensible explanation. Thirty-year-old bridges do not just collapse in a non-earthquake zone.
Terroists? We shall see.
And they do these things in threes.
Don’t go over the GW or Brooklyn Bridges tonight or tomorrow!
I suppose its possible one of the concrete spans over the land collapsed and somehow pulled down the main river span.
There was some minor cracking in the structural steel in an inspection in 2006!!!!!
Where are the flames coming from?
Hey...BOR! I got your right-wing hate site...right...here!
I am in the Steel design and construction business. And I can tell you that the various loads that you mentioned, are the very ones that are always taken in consideration when designing a bridge. In fact, in steel construction, there is so much over designing that goes on, that it really takes something unforseen to bring a structure down (eg. earthquake, barge hit, etc.) Im not saying that it could not be a design failure but that is usually not the case. Also, a fourty year old bridge is not that old. But I am sure the various engineers of record will pour over the design dwgs, to see where the failure might have occured. Also if this bridge was under construction, you can be that before the project took place, a team of civil engineers were all over it to make sure it could structurally take the construction project.
Yeah. I hope someone is looking over that dam
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