Holy crap...bridge collapse

Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:06 pm

WTF....turn on the news....

umdivx · Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:57 pm

yea fucking crazy.... there are times I take that way home. Glad today wasn't one of them....

- Josh

Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:10 pm

i got done with class, going west. and i saw about 10 ambulances,15 cop cars and 5 cops with boats flying east on 394.
fucking crazy

Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:16 pm

My kids were scheduled to go to the twins game tomorrow with their day camp!!

That is unbelievable.

Redlineracer12 · Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:56 pm

The whole situation is just nuts.

I saw it on the news right after it had happened and i couldn't believe it.

Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:59 pm

im at work, what happend?

Y2k · Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:04 pm

3 dead as Mississippi River bridge falls amid rush hour in Minneapolis

grocerygetter · Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:40 pm

I got back to work after meeting Zurno at around 4:15 at Porkies on Uni then visiting my mom as she heals at an ambulatory facility near the state fair grounds. Left her about 5:30-5:45 as it was her dinner time, wheeled her to the dining room and left to go back to work. I started up Snelling not looking forward to running all the way to 694 and fighting the West bound traffic at that time of night so I took 36 West and planned on taking some "back roads". 36W blends with 35W South heading into the heart of Minneapolis and crosses the river, as I came nearer to the jog at Johnson street traffic was starting to back up so I decided to take the Stinson exit. I ran down to Broadway and cut across to 94 South to take 394 West to 494 and up to Bass Lake road which is the area I work. When I got back to work which was around 6:30 or so the collapse was on the news. Glad the traffic was already backing up, don't know if I made the decision to get off of 35 before or after the collapse. Kinda scary.

B

Redlineracer12 · Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:01 pm

grocerygetter wrote:... Kinda scary.

B

More like really scary

Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:02 pm

Crazy night at work. As soon as the call went out, the radio traffic was complete mahem. We were on standby all evening to see if we would have to go down, they didn't end up needing us.

I'd guess there will be 50+ dead, by the time they clear out all the cars under water. Our dispatchers think there may be even more than 50 dead. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out in the next few days....

Y2k · Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:58 pm

where do you work at nils? looks like the traffic will be a little hectic for the next couple weeks

CleanZX3 · Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:16 am

Y2k wrote:where do you work at nils? looks like the traffic will be a little hectic for the next couple weeks

*Years. I cant imagine they can build a bridge very quickly. But who knows. Very Very sad.

mars · Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:45 am

man just unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:37 am

Y2k wrote:where do you work at nils? looks like the traffic will be a little hectic for the next couple weeks

Cottage Grove PD

Redlineracer12 · Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:42 am

Pappy wrote:Crazy night at work. As soon as the call went out, the radio traffic was complete mahem. We were on standby all evening to see if we would have to go down, they didn't end up needing us.

I'd guess there will be 50+ dead, by the time they clear out all the cars under water. Our dispatchers think there may be even more than 50 dead. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out in the next few days....

50+?

I heard that there were about that many cars under water and didn't know how those people could possibly make it out alive. On the news they've only confirmed like 7 deaths (and couldn't predict how many more would turn up yet).

A very sad story and I think it will be at least a couple years to get a new bridge up again.