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.......
Thanks.
I still remember the Sunshine Skyway collapse in St Petersburg, Florida years ago when a barge hit it.
I had to drive over that bridge a lot back in the day, and that bridge was pretty high up, I couldn’t imagine the horror that falling that far must have been.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291790,00.html
“Major Minneapolis Bridge Collapses Over Mississippi River”
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “One witness says she saw a a construction worker “flying in the air” and another man noticed a big hole in the bridge earlier in the day.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Federal officials and local reports are downplaying the likelihood of terrorism as a cause for the bridge damage.
“We are monitoring the situation through state and local authorities,” said Homeland Security Department Spokesman Russ Knocke. “At this time, it does not appear to be an act of terrorism. There has been construction activity in the area, and all signs point to this being a construction or engineering issue.””
Once in a while, it happens.
Exactly.......what is your point?
You don’t live here. You have no idea about our roads and our weather.
“Some bomb components are more odoriferous than others. C-4 has an incredibly strong scent; it’s followed in decreasing order of smelliness by dynamite, TOVEX, detonating cord, and TNT.”
And then there are the explosives that only sensitive dog noses can detect.
Anyone see any hound dogs sniffing around near the bridge?
My husband was on the nextel with his resident engineer and they can not understand how such a major structural failure could happen. All my husband kept saying was "I'm glad that I didn't build that!" He's a heavy construction, project superintendent, and builds bridges for a living.
Absolutely! Remember the blackout of 2003? It wasn't any single event or failure that caused it, but instead, it was the combined effect of many "mini-failures". Many factors contributed to that event, and I'm pretty certain that this will be the case with this bridge failure as well.
I wonder how much Salt is used on that bridge in the winter ?...
HCMC: 22 non-critical, 6 critical, 1 death.
Good observations.. Pretty amazing, isn’t it?
Thanks for the info. Prayers for all.
Abbott Northwestern Hospital (5 minutes south of downtown) is reporting 4 injuries, 2 children and two adult.
No information available on extent of injuries.
My wife told me right away when I started botching about FoxNews' awful camera work "Switch to PMS!" She was right. Better camera work and info by far.
“Everything to Christ in prayer”
and Amen.
Thanks Shelayne, I’m west of Mpls but still maintain my 612 cell phone. I’ll be sure not to use it.
I’m in disbelief at this point.
Horrible timing, or planned timing?
Somebody is in deep doo-doo.
Yeah. Ive driven the sunshine bridge as well.
That baby is high!
“A questions for the Civil Engineers & Designers out there. Is it possible that the combination of rush hour traffic (bumper to bumper maximizing the number of vehicles), lanes being closed (maximize the load to one side), years of potential neglect and the vibration of a passing freight train caused overstressing of a “weak point” that caused a cascading effect of popped rivets, etc. that would have led to catastrophic failure?”
All those questions asked of you make me think about the gazillion year old Tappan Zee Bridge in Westchester, which has needed to be replaced for ages, but the rich bast!rds in Westchester and Rockland don’t want their views of the Hudson impacted. Hope they don’t mind all the bodies washing up on their shores...
your wife’s PMS?
Amen.
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