Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis (holy s**t related)
djkingotto
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BREAKING NEWSMSNBC staff and news service reportsUpdated: less than 1 minute agoMINNEAPOLIS - A busy highway bridge that spans the Mississippi River just northeast of Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour Wednesday, sending a school bus, other vehicles and tons of concrete crashing into the water.The entire span of the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed about 6:05 p.m. A tractor-trailer caught fire, and flame and black smoke billowed into the sky.Local television stations captured video of injured people being carried up the riverbank. There was no immediate word on injuries, but dozens of rescue vehicles were there. Divers were also in the water.Story continues below ↓--------------------------------------------------------------------------------advertisement--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Workers have been repairing the bridge surface as part of improvements along that stretch of the interstate, StarTribune.com reported. At least eight cars and a truck fell into the river. Some people were stranded on parts of the bridge that aren't completely in the water. Click for related content FirstPerson: Were you there? Send in your photos It was not clear how many people might be hurt or killed. NBC News reported that every Minneapolis ambulance has been requested to the scene. A tractor-trailer is on fire at the collapse scene.
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Fingers crossed.
an overpassed just collapsed yesterday near sacramento and the steel beams crushed a driver's truck but they cut him out of the truck ok
i think he takes it to his job daily as well. hes pretty blown away by all this...
Best wishes to people in MPLS
These are the things that taxes pay for.
Agreed on both counts- best wishes to the Twin Cities. Hope your loved one are safe, and your lives day to day lives aren't supremely fucked up. (i'm a commuter too...shit like that would ruin many days.)
OH MY GOD.
Don't fucks with the Mothman
That was my second thought after Mike.
I'm looking at some of the NY Times pics of the collapse and it is unfuckingbelievable. I'm not structural engineer but the failure of the bridge integrity is astonishing.
I have other ways to get to work and around the city and will be getting a bike soon, so this doesn't affect me too much, but it is still incredibly shocking and horrific. The death toll is up to seven and dozens have been injured, including my friend Julie, who I believe was on the bus which fell. I've been trying to get details, but it's been tough to find out.
A huge thank you to all of you who called and sent messages to check up. Really means alot. Yall are my peoples.
Mike
And yes, the first song I played was MC Shan "The Bridge."
I used to drive it daily as well....fucked up.
Last week we went over bridge after bridge - a lot of them over water as wellas that 12 mile one at Chesapeake - I even said to Man how nervous it made me. Horrifying.
The amount of construction going on no doubt spared a lot of lives and injury. As horrible as it is, it is looking like it could have been so much worse given the timing of the collapse. I still can't believe it's Minneapolis!
Thats been the general consensus amongst my friends & fam... a lot of people I know would have been using this bridge if it were not summer, and if it were not under construction. As far as I know, only one friend of mine was on 35 at the time, about a half mile from the bridge when it dropped. My girl was crossing the Washington pedestrian bridge on bike minutes after it happened - the smoke/dust and general scene shook her pretty bad. I shudder to think what it would have been like if this happened in January or February.
Glad to hear you other twin city strutters are alright.
The Stax documentary on PBS last night was a welcome diversion from the constant barrage of news-not-news.
How was your trip?
My wife and I take 301 from Richmond to Philly pretty often and got stuck at the bay bridge for 4 hours do to a serious accident on the bridge. What sucks is there is no other way around you are just stuck unless you want to drive three more hours out of the way.
Nine states in six days!! Sadly, never made it to Lynchburg or Richmond to visit Strutters. A bit of swimming, a lot of driving, some records, breath-taking Appalachians and we saw lots and lots of deer frolicking in the hills. Thanks for asking!
Mike, did you play "The Bridge Is Over"?
The overly-conceptual DJ in me just couldn't resist.
This is crazy. Portland has so many bridges its going to be hard not to think about it everytime I cross one for awhile. Ive always been extra paranoid of the Fremont Bridge, that thing is a monster...plus my california earthquake paranoia kicks in automatically too. The burnside has been under construction for like two years, very scary.
Its pretty surreal.
actually, when i texted mike he had just put on DM "enjoy the silence"
But to make up for it, I followed it up with Land of Confusion.
Alice - Fremont Bridge always seemed super safe to me. The one that always freaked me out was the metal enclosed one which felt like driving through a cage. Burnside or Hawthorne.
The time lapse video of the actual collapse is unbelievable. That just about the entire thing fell as one solid piece is just amazing.
Mike I'm so gald you are doing well and your spirits are up and you are keeping on. I guess playing last night was a way to express some of what you were feeling and to feel close to your community.
I heard this was a 450 foot unsupported span. Engineers are going to be looking at a lot of bridges. Portland does not have anything like that. Hawthorne is the cage, Steel Bridge is also a cage, very old, and privatly owned and maintained. They are redoing the repairs they just did to the Burnside. St Johns and Ross Island and Sellwood are not up to handling the traffic that goes over them and pieces keep falling off of them. Freemont Bridge or Marquam Bridge + earthquack will be very ugly.
Alice: the Iraq Names Project is in your neighborhood, turn out and chalk sometime.