Aug 01, 2007 08:35 pm dang. Wonder if the banks shifted or something?
Lucky nobody was killed... reported anyways.
Bridge Collapses by the U of M
Posted on Aug 01, 2007 08:30 pm
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
A bridge collapsed in Minneapolis today, a main bridge by the University.
No reported fatalities, many injuries, cars in the Mississippi river, cars on fire...details are sketchy right now.
The bridge was insepcted in 2001 the collapse looks fishy to me, both sides gave out and collapsed in the river...
I am no engineer, but that just seems odd.
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Aug 01, 2007 08:35 pm dang. Wonder if the banks shifted or something?
Lucky nobody was killed... reported anyways.
Aug 01, 2007 08:52 pm yeah, not yet, lots of cars were in the water though, one official said about 50 cars involved, one tanker truck was on fire right next to a school bus...very sad...very populated, active area of downtown too.
Aug 01, 2007 09:00 pm Watching it on KARE 11 right now. I used to drive over that bridge every day. I can't imagine how something like that can just go down. And you're right...it just doesn't look like I imagined a bridge would look like after it collapses.
I hope there are no fatalities. It makes you think twice about just jumping in the car and driving across town, doesn't it.
EDIT: Crap! www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/01...apse/index.html
Aug 01, 2007 09:26 pm I just emailed fox news locally about an idea I have for web assistance in communication, it's disgusting it takes the Red Cross 3-4 hours to get a site up for information gathering for loved ones. my wife and I just brainstormed a good idea that would take seconds to launch a site...
Aug 01, 2007 09:52 pm db's gonna be on tv. push this, get on hannity and colmes tomorrow...
Aug 01, 2007 10:03 pm Actually, I just assume Fox will just hand my thoughts to somebody, they will hand it to the Red Cross and they'll do it without me...that's fine though, if it gets done is all I really care about. I am up to my eyeballs working with a health care reform movement right now anyway, not sure how much I can fit on my plate...
Aug 01, 2007 10:07 pm Whoa...as it turns out an old roommate of mine (from my personal "dark ages") was two cars behind the last one that fell off the bridge as it collapsed.
Aug 01, 2007 10:12 pm That is too wierd. Right on the heals of the one in CA. Keep us abreast. You are bound to get a lot more skuttlebut than what the press is going to present.
Aug 02, 2007 08:57 am heres the CA one
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3973692.html
but the MN one was much more ugly. Not even including the deaths...the bridge is gone, and it landed on a shipping lock and a passing freight train...geez
and just imagine being a guy in the portajon
Aug 02, 2007 10:05 am Video of the bridge collapsing...
www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=51365&bw=
Aug 02, 2007 11:15 am Funny how the whole section seemed to come down in a level slab, rather than peeling down from one side to the other... hmmmm.
Aug 02, 2007 12:08 pm Yeah, I have been saying the same thing but people are just not seeing it, or refusing to see it. It looks awful suspicious to me...that's straight out of the Anarchists Cookbook...
Aug 02, 2007 03:28 pm Thanks for the updates, must have been a nightmare on the bridge.
Aug 03, 2007 07:53 am Wow, it's sad the tragedy like this brings out so much scummy news dopes...there is so much press in town and word is so many a-holes just sensationalizing this story to get ratings...
So far there are so many conflicting reports...it was inspected in 2000 and found fine, then 1990 was the first red flag raised, then it's all Bush's fault because of global warming...
Jeezuz, it's horrible, people died, share the news and get the hell out of my state you scummy fear and hate mongering losers.
Then of course we hear about the billions of dollars needed to fix bridges and immediately I think about all the money we currently give to people coming here that refuse to learn our language or give to countries we haven't even heard of cuz they have some internal problems...
::sigh::
Aug 03, 2007 08:14 am It's a sad tragedy to be sure. But even sadder are the number of media outlets and reporters and photographers that are using it to glorify themselves. Same thing happens every time.
On the other hand, it has really brought out the best in the Mpls. community. The way the people have really banded together makes me proud to have grown up there.
Aug 03, 2007 08:56 am All jokes and stuff aside, other than shitty sports managers, owners and teams, Minnesota is a great place. I love it. I disagree with the metropolitan liberal gov't, but the people and communities are awesome. I like going places and traveling and whatnot, but I always love coming home.
News dopes are all "WOW, You did so much to help others" and all that while interviewing others. That's what we do...I'd have done, I HAVE done it...wouldn't anyone? Shouldn't everyone? There are hero's in life every day of the week, but, unless it's a large scale disaster, they always go unmentioned cuz death and pain gets better ratings.
Aug 03, 2007 09:07 am I've come to expect this from the media. They exist at the pleasure of GM who needs to offload monster SUV's that cost more to own and operate than the average home. Highest rating gets the contract. Who is more at fault, the media for pulling that crap or the person who mindlessly sits in front of the tube driving up the ratings? Coupled with our government who will feed us anything to keep us at work and paying our taxes for their purposes, it leaves the average citizen in the dark. And everybody thinks the Matrix was science fiction.
Aug 03, 2007 09:36 am A little snipet from an article:
WASHINGTON - More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.
That works out to at least $9.4 billion a year over 20 years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The bridges carry an average of more than 300 million vehicles a day.
It is unclear how many of the spans pose actual safety risks. Federal officials alerted the states late Thursday to immediately inspect all bridges similar to the Mississippi River span that collapsed.
In a separate cost estimate, the Federal Highway Administration has said addressing the backlog of needed bridge repairs would take at least $55 billion. That was five years ago, with expectations of more deficiencies to come.
It is money that Congress, the federal government and the states have so far been unable or unwilling to spend.
It's gonna take a lot of Mexicans to fix this mess!
Aug 03, 2007 10:18 am It's only a matter of a short time before the 'tinfoil hat' theories begin to emerge:
www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1026.htm
Scroll down about halfway.
Aug 03, 2007 11:03 am Yep, here they come...
In "Irkutsk"? As I recall, wasn't that a good spot to have in the game "Risk"? WOW< I haven't played that in ages, the name made me think of it.
Aug 03, 2007 10:32 pm hah, an "acoustic blast"
as fast as the speed of light?
last time I checked you couldn't send anything acoustic anywhere near the speed of light. Maybe a laser...lol.
Aug 04, 2007 07:05 pm I have had a hard time even looking at it until today. I was on the ****** bridge at 5:15, it collapsed at 6:05. I did not find out until the next morning as I don't watch much TV. Either way, I'm not putting money on how it went down as it could be one of a million things that actually caused it to drop. As one person stated, it sits on top of a steam generation plant and MN uses a ton of corrosive salt in the winter. Lets see, salt and moisture eats the metal in our cars. Um just maybe after 40 years the salt and extreme heated moisture ate the metal of the ****** bridge.
Not rocket science there is it?
Aug 10, 2007 07:54 am Well, lawyers are already out like the ambulance chasing scumbags they are offering represent anyone associated or affected by the collapse in any way...
Aug 10, 2007 09:56 am Yeah, that and the telephone scammers are out in full force too.
Scum.
Aug 10, 2007 11:02 pm And the arrest count is up from the idiots that are trying to get down there over the barricades and steal pieces of the bridge to sell. Some scum bags have already created fake pieces and are trying to sell them. I did hear that they got busted already though.
And the lawyers, take em all out and shoot each and every one of them.
Aug 11, 2007 05:50 am old news, it's all about the miners! one tragedy to the next baby, that's how we roll! god bless us all!
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Aug 23, 2007 07:55 am They are now looking at the de-icing system as they suspect it may have corroded the steel...
duuuuuhhhhhhh, that what de-icing chemicals do...
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