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DAMN...that's messed up...watching it now...
Being reported on FoxNews, CNN...
Looks very bad...
DAMN...that's messed up...watching it now...
From the Strib:
I-35W bridge collapses
By Matt McKinney, Star Tribune
Last update: August 01, 2007 – 6:45 PM
The span of the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River collapsed into the river around 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, sending cars into the water, witnesses said.
The collapse left some cars intact on the deck of the bridge, but others tumbled into the river, according to Joe Blade, a resident of the Riverview Tower at 1920 South First St.
“The bridge is collapsed into the river,” said Blade, speaking to a reporter from his apartment in the tower. “There’s black smoke coming out from underneath it at the southern edge of the collapse.”
Another resident of the tower said she heard the bridge collapse.
“First I heard this huge roar,” said Leone Carstens. “I was at my computer. Initially I thought, Wow was that an airplane?”
The scene that greeted her when she looked out her window was “awful,” she said.
The bridge was crowded with rush hour vehicles when it collapsed, she said. Thick black smoke rose up from the bridge as at least one vehicle burned on the cement below, she said. She said she couldn’t make out vehicles in the water, but there was debris.
“It could be people in the water. It may just be stuff sticking up out of the water,” she said. “They don’t seem to be moving.”
Terrorists???
This is so sad. What a mess.
I'm up here in MN working and I drove over that bridge at about 3pm today! YIKES!
I don't think so. It probably just gave way with a lot of the construction that's been going on up there.
It is sad! It scares me to think that I might move somewhere where I'll have to drive over a river everyday to get to work.
Wow. Massive rescue effort going on right now.
I've driven over the Mississippi River several times in Louisiana, and couldn't help thinking what it would be like if the bridge collapsed. Scary stuff.
Last edited by IceColdBrewski; 08-01-2007 at 07:08 PM.
OMG.
How tall was this bridge?
the bridge is about 64 feet high at its highest
Estimates have 15-60 cars on the bridge when it collapsed.
Wow.......
64 feet above the water.
Collapsed at the end of rush hour......
Homeland Security says it looks like a construction issue, not terrorists.
DHS issues statement says no signs of terrorism, points to construction difficulties.
JB and TPark both watching FOXNews?
That's like matter and anti-matter.
A schoolbus of kids on the bridge reportedly was emptied and all kids are ok.
Amazing stories coming in so far.
I just figured your cable company had dropped CNN or MSNBCJB and TPark both watching FOXNews?
That's like matter and anti-matter.
Reportedly theres a 4th section of the bridge that they are now worried that might collapse...
Strib.
MSNBC reported on DHS statement before.
This is going to get the lawyers mouths watering, sad to say.
So many times, especially as a kid, I imagined this.
How does this happen??!????!!!!
Minneapolis Star-Tribune (I finally realize "Strib" might not be well known.)
Oh, ...there's a line of storms heading directly for Minneapolis.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/trave...MapLayer=radar
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