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Title: Holy Cow Post by: twoiron on August 01, 2007, 05:30:22 PM A massive freeway bridge has collapsed into the Mississippi River near Minneapolis in the US, with reports of two dead. :o :o
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: dystopia on August 01, 2007, 05:38:31 PM yikes. [sm_shock] :sad3:
(http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070802/capt.42d3b7bca485472fb42e63b6fdd4dfe9.correction_bridge_collapse_ny119.jpg?x=380&y=268&sig=GadtBHU87EEzW_7_I1Gq0w--) Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: spacey on August 01, 2007, 05:45:44 PM Jebus. [sm_shock]
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Art Vandelay on August 01, 2007, 05:46:04 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock]
WOW!! That looks ugly. If it's only two dead from that it will be remarkable. The collapse all the way across has me wondering if it might have had some help coming down. ??? Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 01, 2007, 05:51:47 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock]
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: worst_golfer_ever on August 01, 2007, 05:59:54 PM Woah! From the height of the still-standing end points, that bridge must have fallen a long ways! I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in a car on that bridge.
One of the photos I saw showed a school bus on one of the floating pieces - it just made my blood run cold. The article did say that the children on the bus got out OK. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: dystopia on August 01, 2007, 06:03:38 PM Woah! From the height of the still-standing end points, that bridge must have fallen a long ways! I can't imagine what it must have been like to be in a car on that bridge. One of the photos I saw showed a school bus on one of the floating pieces - it just made my blood run cold. The article did say that the children on the bus got out OK. That's a disturbing picture. This article says it's 64 feet down. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20079534/ Quote Workers have been repairing the 40-year-old bridge's surface all summer along that stretch of the interstate, StarTribune.com reported. The arched bridge rises about 64 feet above the river. One 911 caller said she could see the construction workers using a jackhammers when the bridge collapsed close to her car. "She saw it and she said she just gunned it and just made it out of there," Tashia Brown, a 911 operator, told the StarTribune.com. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 01, 2007, 06:06:00 PM any minnesotans want to clue us in how this affects them?
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: stroh on August 01, 2007, 06:10:40 PM any minnesotans want to clue us in how this affects them? For me, not at all. It is a (prolly the) main artery through town. Heavy traffic. Serious *feces*. There is also a Twins game going on, so some 20k+ fans will have a difficult time getting out/home. There will be no rush hour tomorrow. This essentially shuts off the NE sub.s from downtown, and the South. Bottom line............bad news all around. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 01, 2007, 06:15:51 PM any minnesotans want to clue us in how this affects them? For me, not at all. It is a (prolly the) main artery through town. Heavy traffic. Serious *feces*. There is also a Twins game going on, so some 20k+ fans will have a difficult time getting out/home. There will be no rush hour tomorrow. This essentially shuts off the NE sub.s from downtown, and the South. Bottom line............bad news all around. why do minnesota bridges hate 'merka ? Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 01, 2007, 06:18:43 PM tacoma narrows surrenders (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw&mode=related&search=)
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: gleek on August 01, 2007, 07:02:50 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] WOW!! That looks ugly. If it's only two dead from that it will be remarkable. The collapse all the way across has me wondering if it might have had some help coming down. ??? Gravity Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: spacey on August 01, 2007, 07:06:50 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] WOW!! That looks ugly. If it's only two dead from that it will be remarkable. The collapse all the way across has me wondering if it might have had some help coming down. ??? Gravity Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: gleek on August 01, 2007, 07:20:37 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] WOW!! That looks ugly. If it's only two dead from that it will be remarkable. The collapse all the way across has me wondering if it might have had some help coming down. ??? Gravity I think Aske called it "intelligent falling". Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Seamus on August 01, 2007, 08:19:04 PM It reminded me of the Bay Bridge after the earthquake.
Amazing. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 01, 2007, 08:30:39 PM [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock] WOW!! That looks ugly. If it's only two dead from that it will be remarkable. The collapse all the way across has me wondering if it might have had some help coming down. ??? Gravity I think Aske called it "intelligent falling". i heard it from pat r. made sense to me. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: E-A-G-L-E! on August 01, 2007, 09:11:57 PM any minnesotans want to clue us in how this affects them? Guess we'll really have to wait and see just how much this will be affecting everything. Right now it's congested all the way back to University and Snelling. The bridge itself won't affect us much as we don't head out towards Minneapolis much (almost never), however, my dad works in the University and Snelling area so the rerouting and etc could very well affect his transit to and from work for a while. We do have relatives in Minneapolis, haven't heard anything so for now we're taking the no news as good news. We're definitely praying for everyone. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: Aske on August 02, 2007, 09:46:22 AM http://wm.kare.gannett.edgestreams.net/news/news/080207_261171_bridgedown_kare.wmv?213436524624
Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: hobbit on August 02, 2007, 10:55:07 AM http://wm.kare.gannett.edgestreams.net/news/news/080207_261171_bridgedown_kare.wmv?213436524624 Frightening! I'd have filled my shorts - they could have found my body by smell alone. My travels up there kept me in St. Paul most of the time, so I only used that bridge once in a while. It is a high traffic bridge - lucky that more were not on it at the time. Title: Re: Holy Cow Post by: dystopia on August 02, 2007, 11:57:44 AM http://wm.kare.gannett.edgestreams.net/news/news/080207_261171_bridgedown_kare.wmv?213436524624 Wow! [sm_shock] |