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MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS
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Unanimous Doom
User ID: 270870
8/1/2007 9:07 PM
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Before
Close up, from the ground.
[link to www.wctrib.com]
Before
Another good close up
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Before
Extreme Close up, you can really see those green girders here.
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Before
Close up of the attachment, other side, which is now broken.
[link to home.comcast.net]
After
In this view you can see where the edge snapped, indicating a lost of structural integrity. Even though the center of the bridge collapsed, this portion of the bridge should have been maintained, up until the center section. Why are there 2 breaks!
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After
In this view you can count at least 6 breaks
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Also check this out
"I-35W work prompts closures in 2 spots starting today
By Tim Harlow, Star Tribune
Last update: July 31, 2007 – 11:45 PM"
"Northbound and southbound Interstate Hwy. 35W will be reduced to single lanes from Interstate Hwy. 94 to Hwy. 36 in Roseville from 8 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Thursday. Crews are doing bridge work in conjunction with a concrete rehabilitation project slated to end in September."
Full Story here -
[link to www.startribune.com]
Wikipedia article about the I-35W Bridge and the collapse (Wow they are fast)
[link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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Fool
User ID: 260063
8/1/2007 9:10 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
After
In this view you can see where the edge snapped, indicating a lost of structural integrity. Even though the center of the bridge collapsed, this portion of the bridge should have been maintained, up until the center section. Why are there 2 breaks!
[ link to img170.imageshack.us]
That is probably where it snapped first, a little to the right of the picture, or maybe right over the trains, pulled the bridge to the left, snapped off, then bridge plopped down |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 248234
8/1/2007 9:35 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Osamma did this from his grave inside of an Afghanistan cave.
Watch this develop in the next few days!
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ridgerunner
User ID: 220689
8/1/2007 9:38 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
maybe we should look for an airplane under the debris?? what the hell would cause that bridge to fall??? someone underneath it, cutting girders on the sneak? horrid...imagine being on that thing when it went down, how terrifying.....damn....(sorry for the levity, I couldn't control myself)...getting tired of these ever so strange happenings...rr |
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BigUglySlaughterHouse
User ID: 272599
8/1/2007 9:41 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Looking at the photos it seems a there was a lot of bridge and truss held up by only 4 little cement legs. Look at the MONSTER bridge next to it.
I could see a little c4 on one leg and the whole thing would come down as it did. The other bridge would take 5 -10 500lb bombs or several cases of dyno. |
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BigUglySlaughterHouse
User ID: 272599
8/1/2007 9:41 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Looking at the photos it seems a there was a lot of bridge and truss held up by only 4 little cement legs. Look at the MONSTER bridge next to it.
I could see a little c4 on one leg and the whole thing would come down as it did. The other bridge would take 5 -10 500lb bombs or several cases of dyno. |
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Con Spiracy
User ID: 115
8/1/2007 9:45 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Relax. It is a hologram. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 275998
8/1/2007 9:50 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
You fools! It's the Mothman Prophesies! |
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Fool
User ID: 260063
8/1/2007 9:52 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
You fools! It's the Mothman Prophesies! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 275998
That would require indications that people were being warned by mysterious mothman a few days ahead of the incident... at this point... no such report has surfaced
try again |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 230014
8/1/2007 9:54 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
That that fucking nitwit asswipe BUSH, for spending trillions of our tax dollars, meant for the UPKEEP and RUNNING of ******OUR******* country on a bunch of fucking rag heads in another country. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 275998
8/1/2007 10:03 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Those aircraft carriers and jet fighters use a lot of fuel and require expensive upkeep. Let alone the corrupt war profiteers in Iraq making billions? Nevermind the poor schmucks driving home from actually earning their wages. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 275956
8/1/2007 10:38 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
you read about this type of thing happening in Latin American and SE Asian countries all the time-youre shopping at el-Safeway, and suddenly the roof collapses |
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AMERI-DUH
User ID: 276032
8/1/2007 10:46 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
CONCUR,,, THE ENTIRE BRIDGE WAS RESTING ON THOSE FOUR RUSTED OUT KNUCKLES |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 272602
8/1/2007 11:19 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
this site has large close ups of the bridge
[link to www.visi.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 267638
8/1/2007 11:26 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
here's a question: is it symbolic that it "broke" on the West side? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 41207
8/1/2007 11:27 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
thats what i thought "mothman", if not that the thunderbird sightings have increased in the last 6 months * a sign * |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 52939
8/1/2007 11:29 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Dam! It collapsed over a dam! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 41207
8/1/2007 11:30 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
This bridge features an anti-ice system. A series of PVC pipes carries a deicer fluid to outlets that are drilled into the deck of the bridge. When the temperature for ice is right, the deicer fluid is pumped onto the bridge deck...
taken from the above link ,
could something of happened to that system and exploded
causing the bridge to become mechanically unstable? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 41207
8/1/2007 11:32 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
and why arnt there any helicopters up there with IR cams that would spot any hotspots , life and possibly exposive residue? |
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Ikaika
User ID: 204551
8/1/2007 11:35 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
They should have lined it with passports.
Everyone knows they're indestructible. |
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Fool
User ID: 260063
8/1/2007 11:37 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
and why arnt there any helicopters up there with IR cams that would spot any hotspots , life and possibly exposive residue? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41207
Most likely because most of the bridge was searched during the 3 hrs of daylight and as for looking for cars under the water at night... they most likely have automatically concluded anyone that is still submerged is dead
as for explosive residue, maybe they are looking for it, or no evidence to suggest there is any explosive residue |
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Unanimous Laughter
User ID: 270870 (OP)
8/1/2007 11:42 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
They should have lined it with passports.
Everyone knows they're indestructible. Quoting: Ikaika
LOL. Took me a moment to realize what you were talking about. The supposed 9/11 hijackers passports which were found in near perfect condition at the site of the crash. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 41207
8/1/2007 11:42 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
They should have lined it with passports.
Everyone knows they're indestructible. Quoting: Ikaika
Its hard enough to obtain one yet alone build some huge structure |
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planetbarb
User ID: 272982
8/1/2007 11:48 PM
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[link to news.yahoo.com]
Six killed in Minneapolis road bridge collapse
By Benno Groeneveld 1 hour, 1 minute ago
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A highway bridge collapsed and hurled vehicles into the Mississippi River in central Minneapolis during evening rush hour on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring more than 20, officials said.
Cars were crushed under huge slabs of concrete, flipped onto their roofs or thrown in the river as the 40-year-old bridge, packed with vehicles in nose-to-tail commuter traffic, collapsed with a thunderous roar.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington said there was no indication of terrorism in the disaster.
"It will be a very tragic night when it is over," Minneapolis mayor R.T. Ryback told a news conference.
"Obviously this is a catastrophe of historic proportions," added Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
The 500-foot (150-metre) span of the steel and concrete bridge, which carried an eight-lane highway and was under repair, buckled and fell into the river and onto concrete embankments at about 6:05 p.m. CDT (7.05 p.m. EST).
The span had stood about 65 feet above the river.
Dr. Joseph Clifton told reporters that his hospital, Hennepin County Medical Center, had taken in 22 injured, six of them in critical condition.
One man was dead on arrival, having drowned. "Most were blunt-type injuries, in the face and extremities," Clifton said, adding many suffered internal injuries.
More patients, and deaths, were expected, he said.
"I saw them carrying up a body -- I don't know if he was alive or dead," said Andy Schwich, who arrived at the scene on his bicycle a few minutes after the collapse.
A truck was exploding in fireballs, he said, and there were numerous cars either on the remnants of the bridge or in the river.
The cause of the disaster was not yet known, state police said.
Gov. Pawlenty said the bridge, which was built in 1967, was inspected in 2005 and 2006 and the Minnesota Department of
Transportation found no structural defects.
Ryback said some 50 cars involved in the collapse had been searched by rescue workers.
Rescue boats and divers searched the water on a hot evening as thunderstorms threatened the area.
A freight train was passing on a track running under the bridge when it collapsed, and the train was cut in two, WCCO television reported.
Five miles of the Mississippi on either side of the collapsed bridge has been shut to river traffic, a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Louis, Missouri, said.
The river, the longest in the United States, is a major transportation route.
Witnesses said they heard a rumbling sound as the bridge collapsed.
"First I heard this huge roar," Leone Carstens, a nearby resident, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I was at my computer. Initially I thought, Wow was that an airplane?"
Steel pilings stuck out at angles from the riverbed, huge chunks of concrete appeared to be floating in the debris-strewn water, and plumes of smoke rose from the site, a Reuters eyewitness said.
One witness said she saw people swimming in the water seeking safety and half-submerged vehicles. Injured survivors were led or carried up the embankment.
The state transport agency said 200,000 cars a day use the steel arch bridge.
In a similar disaster in June 1983, three people were killed when a section of bridge collapsed over a river on the I-95, the major U.S. East Coast highway, in Connecticut.
(Additional reporting by Todd Melby in Minneapolis and Diane Bartz and Andy Sullivan in Washington) |
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Nacirema
User ID: 226992
8/1/2007 11:49 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Actually, you can make your own. Get it notarized and everything...
I dont know where to find the super indestructible paper though |
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Nacirema
User ID: 226992
8/1/2007 11:51 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
"A freight train was passing on a track running under the bridge when it collapsed, and the train was cut in two"
I saw that train in the pictures of before it collapsed... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 41207
8/1/2007 11:51 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
well its up to 7 Now |
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Unanimous Sarcasm
User ID: 270870 (OP)
8/1/2007 11:52 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
Actually, you can make your own. Get it notarized and everything...
I dont know where to find the super indestructible paper though Quoting: Nacirema 226992
Come to think of it, they should start making all cockpit recorders (The black box) out of passports. No black boxes recovered from the World Trade Centers. But passports in tact. |
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Unanimous Coward
User ID: 270870 (OP)
8/1/2007 11:53 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
"A freight train was passing on a track running under the bridge when it collapsed, and the train was cut in two"
I saw that train in the pictures of before it collapsed... Quoting: Nacirema 226992
If you look at the 4th "Before" pic, you'll see the train in the upper lefthand corner.
Here it is again.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 86590
8/1/2007 11:53 PM | |
Nacirema
User ID: 226992
8/1/2007 11:55 PM | | Re: MINNEAPOLIS BRIDGE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS- BEFORE & AFTER PICS | Quote |
"First I heard this huge roar," Leone Carstens, a nearby resident, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "I was at my computer. Initially I thought, Wow was that an airplane?"
Since thats what he heard first, i wonder what he next 'Next'
He was sitting all cozy, in front of his computer... and then heard a roar, that obviously sounded like an airplane...
Musta been kinda loud...
MEANWHILE: Anderson Cooper: "Where you scared?" "I bet ya you were scared" .. "imagine the Terror" ..
The most utterly unique 'natural' collapse ever .... not one second has been spent on how this absolutly rare occurence actually .... occured.
"Aren't you Scared?" |
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