Minneapolis I-35W Bridge Collapse

Mark,

I understand your feelings regarding the situation; when 9-11 hit a lot of people I go to school with lost fathers, uncles, friends and its a horrible thing to witness. I hope only the best for your co-workers and the families of those touched by this tragedy.

Shadow pretty much nailed it. People die everyday, it happens, its life. We know of this even cause it was big. A bridge completely crashing killing 6 people total is a horrible thing, and I am not making "wisecracks" at the fact that it happen, but why it happen. People die every day, yet I don't suppose you feel sorry for those people, or those families about it do you? You only know of this even cause it was all over the news, which is usually full of nothing but sad crap ne ways. But if you look at every tragic event, or even every persons death and are just horrified by it or are depressed, then your gonna be one sad person for the rest of your life.

Now for this situation, you personally its A LOT different. You live 2 miles from it, you had friends that use that bridge, so from your point of view, this could be the loss of a friend, which lets pray it's not. This hits you harder then all over us cause its in your life, but to us, its just another event that happens.

You hardly hear any jokes about 9/11, but how many jokes have you heard about Katrina, or the Tsunami that wiped out that entire island? Cause me personally, have heard quite a few, mainly probably due to the people I hang out with. I am a humor kinda guy, I try to get people to laugh, smile, whatever, even in the :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:test times. I nearly died in a motorcycle wreck and got to spend 5 hrs in the E.R. My mom was a total wreck, nice pun there eh?, and was in tears most of the day, but what you think I was doing when I was being put on the stretcher, or on the way to the E.R., my dumbass was cracking jokes about what happen and what could of happen, and even in all that, I got a few smiles out of my mom.

Humor in a crappy situation can come off as "cruel" and "insensitive" but for some people, its literally they only way they can get through times that other wise would completely over come them. I don't mean to offend anyone, and I am sorry if I did.

But I still think it's Planet X's fault. (if you don't know what planet X is, look it up, according to scientist, it will end the world in 2012)

i'm still waiting to hear why it happened. when i heard the bridge was under construction the last few months, my first thought was that they left something undone... or something... don't know jack about bridges.... but then i heard that they were just doing basic maintenance or something that wouldn't have made much of an impact. so if they didn't do anything that would affect the stability of the bridge.... i dunno. but they need to figure it out ASAP so it doesn't happen again!!!

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Originally Posted by python.princess

i'm still waiting to hear why it happened.

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...then you will be waiting awhile. Most studies into bridge failures take years.

The fact is that things like this do not happen everyday. It is a rare event that will be learned from and studied to prevent the same thing from happening in the future.

I still see the media selling the "FEAR" though.

Locally, every newspaper has had some front page comments like "the condition of Louisiana bridges and when will they collapse" ever since this happened. I live in south east Louisiana yet all the media has to do is play on the fear of bridge collapse.....damn....it is not like they don't constantly whore out the levee failure to bring fear to people...I guess we need another issue now.

Its what my news station told me? So i figured I would throw it out. Sorry for commenting.

well it seems to be that this bridge as been on the structuraly deficiant list since the early 90's with some other 1000 bridges in minnisota alone the total rises to like 16000 for the entire united states. So how many more collapses are out there waiting to happen.I frimly believe its time to bring every dollar we are spending in forgein aid back into this country to fix things and establish basic health care for all american citiziens. Before we have more disasters in this country.

Well, thankfully it sounds like all of my co-workers are accounted for. It's amazing more people weren't hurt. The construction that was going on was just work on the concrete and not the infrastructre of the bridge, so probably not as likely that was the cause. Fortunatly the construction had traffic so snarled up that a lot of people were already taking alternate routes home. Who knows? Maybe the construction actually saved some lives?

That's great news, Mark! Very glad to hear it.

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Originally Posted by McAdry

well it seems to be that this bridge as been on the structuraly deficiant list since the early 90's with some other 1000 bridges in minnisota alone the total rises to like 16000 for the entire united states. So how many more collapses are out there waiting to happen.I frimly believe its time to bring every dollar we are spending in forgein aid back into this country to fix things and establish basic health care for all american citiziens. Before we have more disasters in this country.

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Dream world's, they are such a nice thing to have.

EXCELLENT news Mark!!!!

I have to agree with the comment about the media's "fear" tactics... if that's what ya want to call it. Heck, tonight on CNN they are going to air "The Road to Ruin", a look at America's bridges etc. "are we safe?" :rolleyes: We wonder why society is so paranoid and has so many phobias about EVERYTHING...hmmmmm, let's think about that for a moment.
*glances over at the media in general* :D