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its been all over the news here sucks to see it happen.they say yet why it happened.

My girlfriend's mom works near there, but took today off, luckily. And her brother lives nearby as well. I called her to see how they were after I heard it happen and we found out they were ok. Not around when it happened. Insane and I send my best wishes to anyone involved.

Wow! That's a Damn shame. I'm sorry so any people were involved. Our thoughts and prayers will be with them.

Ty

BTW: Do any of you all think this looks Really Strange? The Bridge was inspected last year and passed, as it had many years prior to that. Those bridges are usually so "over" designed it really surprises me it would fail so completely all at one moment.

Maybe someone was fudging the inspections and never looked at it.

I see a big sling out there waiting for many asses to be thrown in it.

Amazing pictures, Randy. Do you and your wife use I35W on a daily basis at all?

Tragic accident.

Even though a bridge normally is constructed with a safefactor of 10 it only require failure in one critical spot for it to collapse. It's not the first bridge to give in. Probably a construction error in the way that they didn't think of some factor. Vibrations will eventually cause fatigue. Have you been standing on a bridge when a truck passes and felt how much the bridge moves? It's amazing.

Roadsalt can really be effective in corrosion on steelbridges.


Jan

That is just terrible. And over a river no less, so strong currents affect rescue and recovery.

Thankfully, no. :thumbsup:

However, that bridge isn't too far from Porky's and the University Ave. strip where the weekend cruising is. We are in the area when we go down there cruising and to visit a friends cylinder head shop that is also pretty close.

A friend posted this on a local board...
My Dad is a Minneapolis Cop, He is a Lieutenant and him and his team has been there all night. He called me this morning and I got a little insight. There is going to be a lot more dead. There is lots of cars completely submerged and some under the bridge. They haven't even bother to check them as yesterday the goal was to rescue those who could be rescued. Now they are starting a recovery. This is not good.

~HJ


SpeedyV10 was also VERY close at the time of the collapse. He actually was on the road underneath shortly before the collapse. Hopefully, SpeedyV10 will post here, as he went back to the bridge right after it went down.

Randy

I dunno maybe it's just me...but that bridge design looks as scary as all get up in that picture.:_paranoid

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Damn, and I have to drive over the Bay Bridge everyday to get to work............

RIP