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Comments on: Bridge Collapse https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28158 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:56:30 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28158 Nepalz, there was apparently no warning, an instantaneous failure. The steel supports look like they folded.

Yeah, Steve, I caught that on my swing by.

Thanks, Jon. The original map I looked at wasn’t clear on the boundaries, and I assumed that it was the river because the street names all changed.

Regina, it would take a minimum of a day if both the governor and the president could be located. The governor has to ask the president for a federal declaration before the federal government can get involved. The governor can call out the state’s National Guard troops on his/her own authority, but it would depend on where they are located as to how long it would take to respond.

This happened in a major metropolitan area, so there should have been fire department and police vehicles capable of responding quickly, but I doubt they had the equipment for something like this. They need the barge cranes that we have down in the Gulf and use to reset our bridges after hurricanes. If they were available, it would take a week or 10 days to move one from New Orleans to Minneapolis. Hopefully there’s some closer.

]]> By: Regina O'Brien-Fortin https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28156 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:19:23 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28156 Once again, we have a major catastrophe in this country and where’s the federal government? Where is the national guard? This is not a local accident.
We should have decended on these poor souls within the hour. Has our entire country become so detached?

]]> By: Jon https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28155 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:16:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28155 Just an FYI, that bridge does not connect Minneapolis to St. Paul. That info is incorrect. It’s just a section of freeway flowing through Minneapolis

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28154 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:14:18 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28154 FWIW, I just checked, and Rook and his family are all OK. He has some interesting comments about the bridge, and says that Olbermann is wrong about pedestrians and bicyclists… they use a different bridge nearby.

]]> By: Nepalz https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28153 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:12:44 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28153 Watching the News, and the comments from the witness the scene is so horrific.
As quoted:
“The bridge started shaking and then it collapsed”
“I was in my truck. I saw my truck torn into two I was wearing my seatbelt so I was safe.”

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28151 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:03:46 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28151 CNN has another version of that map in their article, which is why I preferred their coverage.

]]> By: Bob https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/comment-page-1/#comment-28150 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:52:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/01/bridge-collapse/#comment-28150 Google link to Bridge prior to collapse:

[Edited to enclose link.]

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