Minneapolis I-35W Bridge Collapse

Yeah my sister was going to use that bridge tonight but decided to take a different way....thank god. I haven't lost someone in this tragedy so far....Mark let me know if you find out anything else. :(


Mike

They were repairing it before it collapsed. That's why I don't like bridges,tunnels or anything else like that.You can't trust anything man made.

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They think it could be Terroristic activity. atleast there arn't more casualtys. But thats 6 to many.:(

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I've been watching the news all night and that was NEVER mentioned and it sounds like an alarmist idea to me. I think it's more likely that the construction they've been doing on it for the past 2 months might have more to do with it.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

Ya, could be, now that I think about it, I got sun burnt on my shoulders the other day, think I should get homeland security involved... :rolleyes:

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Naa, don't waste your time. I tried that and all they did was tell me that since the sun burn was *not* in "sensitive areas" there was nothing they could do. They did however, ask me for my name, address, phone #, email address, mother's maiden name, father's place of birth and how sensative my ears were to high pitch noises. :P

Seriously though, IF (and that's a big *if*) it was terrorist related, then I'd be willing to bet it was a failed attempt. We've seen how good a job terrorists can do when they want to destroy something and kill a lot of people. ;)

ok, if we can't blame terrorist, then I blame global warming. cause its gotta be one or the other.

Or the third option that seems to go around... Blame Bush.

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Originally Posted by GirDance

Or the third option that seems to go around... Blame Bush.

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can't blame anybody for blaming bush :2cent:

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Originally Posted by sw204me

ok, if we can't blame terrorist, then I blame global warming. cause its gotta be one or the other.

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Well, heck, we're back to square one. :(
We can't blame Bush because if we do, he'll hear about it and we'll end up getting "suicide-ed" by the guys in dark glasses who monitor us... I mean, who DON'T monitor us. We can't blame global warming because the governemt (Bush) says it's not true and that global warming is just something that Al Gore came up with one night while he was drunk and the humidity was real high. :P

Can I make a request please? I know a lot of the posters here are young people, and this is an exciting story with lots of drama and speculation especially if you're watching any of the national news networks like fox or cnn that tend to overdramatize situations like this. And it's fun and cool to talk smack about this being a problem of terrorism or global warming or president bush or whatever...

But... this is a very real human tragedy with significant loss of life and many people injured. Emotionally as well as physically... The full scope of which will not be known until the divers get in the water tomorrow to start recovering bodies from all the submerged cars and trucks.

Please, don't make light of this tragedy. I know that a little false bravado in a scary situation can help relieve some of the fear , but you wouldn't want to go overboard and sound like you're making a mockery of it. That would just be cruel.

As I said earlier, I work just two miles north of the bridge. The collapse happened in rush hour traffic. Any of my co-workers that get off of work between 5:30-6:00 (which is quite a few) and that live in the southern suburbs, would be driving over that bridge to get home at about the same time it collapsed. I won't know until tomorrow whether or not anyone I know has been killed or injured in this tragedy, but I've been praying that everyone I know is OK....

Now, I don't mean to sound like some kind of old geezer and point fingers at anyone in a scolding manner. After all, several decades ago I was once young too. But I would ask you to please think before you press the enter key... Do you really want to be remembered as the person who made a wisecrack about a tragedy such as this???

Mark

:) I kind of figured someone was going to bring this up as I, myself have thought about it. I, of course, can not speak for others, however, myself, I am of the belief that it is *good* to "take a breather" from chaos. Does that mean that we should go about cracking endless amounts of jokes about this, or 9-11... or any tragady for that matter, no, but to take a break from the "oh my god!!!!!" of it is... healthy.
I'm not exactly sure what you refer to as "young people" but I for one, am not so "young". I don't think that "false bravado in a scary situation can help relieve some of the fear" is quite accurate. We are not putting on a front or a face, we are simply opening a window to let some sunshine in on a very disturbing, horrific day. I agree, going overboard would be in poor taste, however I don't think that 5 posts out of...2 pages worth is "overboard". I completely understand the sensitive nature of the issue as well as people's feelings toward it and that our "sunshine", while refreshing to one may be obtrusive and blinding to another and for that, I apologize.

However, let us not assume that no one else knows, is or has been deeping and personally effected by tragady, that would be a bit of an oversight.
My brother, who fought in the first Gulf war saw horrors that he'll never be able to get out of his head... or dreams and his family did not even know he was on the front lines in Bazarah (sp?) with a machine gun until *after* he returned home... at least he did, his buddy in the trench with him didn't and my brother had to wash his friend's blood and brains off his face. While no, that did not happen to me, it is something that I will never forget... the look on my brother's face when telling us about it and how he puked straight away after telling it.

So, if I (can only speak for myself) feel that I need to take a breather from tragady and lighten the air with a joke or two, please forgive me, it is good for the mind as well as the heart from time to time.