I-35 Bridge Collapses

They just said that every week a bridge collapses in the U.S.---just NOT of this magnitude! Now all Hell will break loose to fix them (80K+). Takes something like this type of disaster to get things moving---kind of like 9-11 when we had been being hit by terrorism for years!! Looks like we will need another 9-11 to 'refresh' our memories on that one, too! [sigh]

 

This bridge was just inspected though for structural damage in 2005 and 2006 and no problems were found.

Shocking that this many bridges collapse though, never would have thought that.

 

I just went across this bridge the morning of the collapse. I am really beginning to think these bad things follow me. From snow storms, tornadoes, to bridges collapsing I bring bad luck everywhere.

 

..that guy on Lil Abner, 'Joe Blipsznik,' with the black rain-cloud over his head wherever he goes?!! ha ha

 

50 Kids' Lives Spared on 'Miracle' School Bus During Bridge Collapse

Thursday, August 02, 2007



AP The school bus is seen on the Interstate 35W over the Mississippi River Wednesday.



MINNEAPOLIS — It stuck out in the first video images from the freeway bridge collapse: a bright yellow school bus, sitting on the concrete deck, slightly tilted to one side perhaps, but more or less upright amid the wreckage.

At the White House on Wednesday night, staffers, directors and concerned neighbors recounted the events leading up to an almost unbelievable outcome. A bus from an inner-city summer youth program, full of kids still wet from a day at a suburban water park, fell nearly 65 feet into the Mississippi gorge, and no one was killed or even seriously injured.

"It was a miracle," said Tony Wagner, president of Pillsbury United Communities, which runs the community center, along with others.

As of 11 p.m. Wednesday, in fact, only one person on the bus, a Waite House staffer, was even being held overnight at the hospital, according to Wagner. In all, there were 50 kids on board, plus a driver from First Student bus company, and eight Waite House staff members.

When he saw the initial reports on television news broadcasts, Wagner saw the yellow bus. He did not know until later, when notified by Cheryl Jensen, Pillsbury's vice president of neighborhood centers, that it was the bus full of kids, aged 6 to 11, from Waite House, which is located in the Phillips neighborhood in south Minneapolis.

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/02/vosli.mn.i35w.bridge.collapse.side.view.cnn

 

Some clown named 'Bush'master was out on the bridge with some Repub cronies trying to warm-up to some Global Mexicans and everything ignited!!

 

I have not heard if the trucker (seen by the bus) is okay or even alive??? I saw one picture where it looked like the cab was engulfed in flames? Has anyone heard or read about this driver?