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Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8212 Location: MN

The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: Re: HOLY CRAP!

anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

Is this what you are talking about? There is no date on the article but I guess it is current...

I hope everyone is ok... Sounds bad - traffic backed up from road works, falling on a park... Dang.

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: HOLY CRAP!

IAmMarauder wrote:
anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

Is this what you are talking about? There is no date on the article but I guess it is current...

I hope everyone is ok... Sounds bad - traffic backed up from road works, falling on a park... Dang.

Yeah, that's the one...

Glad to hear you're ok AC. Looks pretty bad right now.

Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8212 Location: MN

IAmMarauder wrote:
anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

Is this what you are talking about? There is no date on the article but I guess it is current...

I hope everyone is ok... Sounds bad - traffic backed up from road works, falling on a park... Dang.

yeah one and the same...

last year I was taking that to and from work every day, at about the same time that it collasped to day... Thank god I moved, and stopped working down town... Cause that is just Crazy...

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

Just heard about it from a special bulletin on tv...glad to hear your OK ac! Any other dogs in that area?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject:

yikes!!!!

just saw the news flash on this one and immediately logged onto here to check and see if you were okay. wow... that is unbelievable...

Sad

Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8212 Location: MN

Extreme wrote:
Just heard about it from a special bulletin on tv...glad to hear your OK ac! Any other dogs in that area?

If there are I don't know about them, I know Squashman has family in the area though...

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

anglachel wrote:
Extreme wrote:
Just heard about it from a special bulletin on tv...glad to hear your OK ac! Any other dogs in that area?

If there are I don't know about them, I know Squashman has family in the area though...

okay... i don't mean to make light of the situation but... i just noticed the "appropriateness" of your current avatar...

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: HOLY CRAP!

anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

just the first 3 words freaked me out... but then I read mississippi instead of trinity... right... not the texas 35W, the MN 35W... Major glad you're ok though. Feel sorry for the 3 that are rumored to be dead and the dozens injured... glad all the kids on that bus were generally ok.

and yes, the freaked out expression that beaker has in that avatar is very fitting.

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: HOLY CRAP!

Slymer wrote:
anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

just the first 3 words freaked me out... but then I read mississippi instead of trinity... right... not the texas 35W, the MN 35W... Major glad you're ok though. Feel sorry for the 3 that are rumored to be dead and the dozens injured... glad all the kids on that bus were generally ok.

and yes, the freaked out expression that beaker has in that avatar is very fitting.

6 confirmed dead now...

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: HOLY CRAP!

sully_51 wrote:
Slymer wrote:
anglachel wrote:
The 35W bridge just fell into the mississippi!!

I took that bridge home most of last year... and I bicycle around there...

just the first 3 words freaked me out... but then I read mississippi instead of trinity... right... not the texas 35W, the MN 35W... Major glad you're ok though. Feel sorry for the 3 that are rumored to be dead and the dozens injured... glad all the kids on that bus were generally ok.

and yes, the freaked out expression that beaker has in that avatar is very fitting.

6 confirmed dead now...

watching the web coverage as it's posted on the local myfoxdfw... they have links to the vids from the myfoxtwincities... just watched the one with the guy from a company that investigates these types of events... I like having knowledgeable people talk about events instead of the reporters trying to guess. much more informative that way.

I know this much... traffic will REALLY suck around there. I hope those that survived have a speedy recovery.

Guide Dog Joined: 08 Nov 2003 Posts: 8212 Location: MN

I've read a few places now that this was not a terrorist act...

but if it were, christ, access to that bridges under belly is not hard to get... any one who can climb even a little can get up in the trusses that were underneith it... and with a span as long as it had, wouldn't take much to bring the whole thing down...

Mndot should have had the traffic cams on the bridge (at least one of them) just before it went... I'm supprised that footage hasn't been leaked yet... especailly since they have feeds to the major news outlets for that... guess no one was recording...

still alittle unreal that it is a place I know, that is in all of these headlines... a place I could jump on my bike and be at in less then 10 minutes...

All the cams for MN were down just after it happened, guess the web traffic was probably hitting them a bit hard...

Toilet Drinker Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 296 Location: ND

Ok, I'm hearing that this had something to do now with the crew that was resurfacing. Somebody told me that a jackhammer in the wrong place was to blame.

While I think that this sounds crazy I was hoping that someone could verify.

While I don't know you Angla... I have been around here long enough to know where you live and I live close enough here in Grand Forks, that I couldn't help but worry about you and everyone else I know who lives down there in the cities. Glad to hear that you're OK. I know I've been over that bridge before myself. It's one of those things that you take for granted until it crashes, then it seems really freaky. An understatement, I know.

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

I seem to recall, through the weekend's alcoholic haze, that we were discussing construction/engineering mishaps, one example being where the plans were flawed but the construction crews followed them precisely.

Could this be something like that?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:46 am Post subject:

http://wm.kare.gannett.edgestreams.net/news/news/080207_261171_bridgedown_kare.wmv?213436524624