Minneapolis Bridge Collapses Over Mississippi River

[Heelfan71]

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cars were bumper to bumper both ways when it collapsed.

[mgoblue]

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wow, i hope everyone's families are ok, and those lost/impacted are in our prayers....

I am going to be very interested in the NTSB or Army Corp of Engineers investigation into this (not sure who it falls under). That bridge is just decimated, and structures like that are designed with a safety factor greater than 2, this should just not happen.

[Psyblast]

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First thing I thought of when I heard about and saw this was The Mothman Prophecies.

[nickb]

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My sister is ok, my sisters friend let me know through the magic of facebook. The girl was actually sapposed to go to my sisters house tonight and thats the bridge she takes to get there, but my sister got called into work tonight. Lucky girl...

[Lintyfresh85]

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saw it on tv tonight... RIP to all of the victims and their families.

[TheGamingChef]

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That's terrible. It's weird to think that I've driven over that same bridge before...

[dave360]

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Good Lord that's horrible.

[bergie56]

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Death toll is up to 6 now and the Twins v Royals game is also cancelled tomorrow.

[Holic]

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Such a tragedy, my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected.

[LetsGoBucs]

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I work for a company that has an office in the Minneapolis area. I've driven over that bridge while there on a business trip. I hope nobody I know from work was on it or had family on it. My thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragedy.

[bukktown]

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This is really unbelievable up here. I've been watching it for 5 hours nonstop. Blood banks are getting depleted. I think I might go to red cross to donate blood. Pray for all the affected families.

[RandyMoss]

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I was going to the twins game when it happened, pure chaos in minneapolis cars were everywhere with every police department in the state coming to try to help. people everywhere.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

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Wow, this is just horrible.

[JohnnytheSkin]

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Thoughts go out to the families of course, but is anyone else disappointed (again!) with the news coverage? Maybe it's just Fox Noise, but I haven't seen or heard anyone from the big engineering groups that would have ACTUAL knowledge and information...American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), nor the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).

You could give the average American a basic working knowledge of bridge design, materials testing (for the concrete work), the joint types and how/why they fail, probable causes, what have you!

Instead you get the same old emotion-based sensationalistic journalism. Give the folks real information!

EDIT: Just read all of MSNBC and CNN's web coverage and only found mention of some fatigue effects on the approach from a 2001 report at CNN.com.

[Spectre]

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Damn, probably one of my worst nightmare scenarios. I don't think I could dream a scarier scenario, this is the type of stuff in horror movies. I can't imagine the horror of this situation.

The best we can do is learn from this tremendous disaster and help ease the pain of those that lost loved one in this, which is IMHO going to be one of the worst engineering failures/accidents of our generation.