Minneapolis: Bridge collapses into Mississippi River

[ZonoBurk]

I would love to know how someone started recording it, if no one knew it was about to happen. Clever I'll say.

They don't know why the bridge fell. They don't know how many people are missing. A lot of cars (people) was washed up and down stream.

So sorry for the families.

[markwolfe Veteran]

I would love to know how someone started recording it, if no one knew it was about to happen. Clever I'll say.

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No mystery. It was a security camera in the area.

[ZonoBurk]

No mystery. It was a security camera in the area.

Makes sense now. Thank ya. :)

[argonite]

No mystery. It was a security camera in the area.

Security camera has crappy FPS.

Last thing i was thinking of when I heard of the disaster, btw.

[gonzoislost]

still, its caught on tape, and thats all that matters...

[synchro]

I actually heard on the news just this morning that there are about 70 000 (!) bridges all around America which is in the same condition.

I heard this on the morning news on one of the national Norwegian radio channels. Kinda disturbing to say the least..

My condolances to all how is affected by this terrible tragedy :(

[argonite]

Thank goodness I live on a mainland. After this, they better make those inspections more thorough.

[P!P]

Thank goodness I live on a mainland. After this, they better make those inspections more thorough.

Mainland? Minneapolis is mainland. It has at least a couple thousand miles of land in each direction. This was over a river, not an ocean. ;)

Anyway, I'm planning to visit the site tomorrow. I'll post any picture I take that are worth while.

[spenser.d]

I actually heard on the news just this morning that there are about 70 000 (!) bridges all around America which is in the same condition.

The news is absolutely ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, my condolences to those lost, but come on. One bridge collapses and the media acts like this stuff happens every day and will keep happening every day, as if this one bridge collapsing will cause all other bridges to simultaneously go and decide to collapse also, even though they haven't done so yet. All they're doing is instilling needless fear, which they're pretty darn good at these days.

-Spenser

[markwolfe Veteran]

The news is absolutely ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, my condolences to those lost, but come on. One bridge collapses and the media acts like this stuff happens every day and will keep happening every day, as if this one bridge collapsing will cause all other bridges to simultaneously go and decide to collapse also, even though they haven't done so yet. All they're doing is instilling needless fear, which they're pretty darn good at these days.

-Spenser

True, there may be media over-sensationalizing. There are also individuals that may be over-paranoid about crossing bridges.

However, when you have a failure like this, it is sensible to the point of being negligent if you don't do it to perform a check for similar situations on other equipment.

Where I work, if we have a catastrophic robot failure that knocks out production, it is my duty to investigate and see if this same failure mode could affect other robots. If so, then I need to check the other robots. Period.

(granted, I don't have the media yelling that the sky is falling everywhere I go) :p

[BajiRav]

Holy old thread batman

[BoDEAN]

CLOSE this thread already!

[NateB1]

Wow. I clicked on the topic, thinking that another bridge had fallen into the Mississippi, and then I looked at the date. :p Old indeed.

[psybapunk]

I was wondering how it had collapsed Wednesday evening, when it's only Wednesday morning, then I saw the OP's date.

[markwolfe Veteran]

Holy old thread batman

Wow.

I saw the bump post today (bumped by albertjames), and the previous from Aug 8^th, and just continued, not realizing that the August 8^th wasn't a few weeks ago, but rather last year (2007!) :blink:

[John S. Veteran]

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