minnesota bridge collapse

[pianistimo]

my husband just informed me of this a minute ago.  it's terrible news.  apparently the bridge was under construction at the time and workers were working on it.
https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/01/bridge.collapse.ap/

[lau]

hey dangit I was going to make this topic. I think my brother lives pretty close to this bridge, hmm. minnesota is unpredictable, sort of.






and to cheer you up i thought you might enjoy this one more time

[pianistimo]

lau, you are too funny.  whatcha cooking these days?

[thalberg]

Yes I was on 35 when the bridge collapsed....only I was bout 15 miles north of the bridge at the time.

Just goes to  show you how fragile life is.....anything can happen. 

[pianistimo]

wow!  that is crazy.  north - i assume -  means you were heading south towards the bridge or had just passed over it?  i'd be shaking, either way!

i heard only about 5 people died, though.  i'm glad no more.  i was thinking that many perished.  suppose a lot of people are pretty badly hurt, though.  not sure which i'd choose.  i mean so much concrete.  maybe better to be dead than crushed.  whew.  this whole thing is somewhat of a nightmare.

the bridge beside it had a middle support. they are saying that this particular bridge when built was touted for it's lack of need of this middle support.  hmmm.  now what?  i guess only videos and incoming information will tell exactly what went wrong.  someone was saying something or other about different weights (like trucks with loads ) passing at certain intervals and the timing of the loads.  i certainly don't pretend to know anything about building bridges.  i'm always glad to get to the other side.  never been one to trust any bridge completely.

i believe china is now building as high of highrises as it can with relative ease.  do you kind of wonder the same things.  i mean - what do they really know about wind gusts and earthquakes?  but, no matter - technology will continue on -even if more people can be dead in a few moments.  it's neither bad nor good to us - (well, bad when people die) - but it's almost like there is no choice but to go 'forward.'  unless - perhaps - we weren't meant to live in cities in the first place?  this is an open question - because from time immemorial some decided to live in cities for the protection it provided from living alone miles from civilization.

[thalberg]

My goodness, pianistimo!  You must be the world's fastest typist.  I read all of it though...

To answer your question, I live north of the bridge and I was headed north anyway, so I didn't pass over the bridge that day....unless I ran an errand and forgot about it or something.  I did use the bridge quite often when it was up.

[pianistimo]

glad you're alright!

[soliloquy]

We had a tanker truck explode in Alabama on I-65 that burned for hours and hours but nobody cared =/

[pianistimo]

oh.  i remember seeing that, too.  i don't think it's that nobody cares. it's that everyone is wondering 'how did it happen?'  and then, something else happens right after that.  does anyone know what caused the tanker to explode? 

[paris_hilton]

Firm structures are hot.   

[lau]

no they are not..and that's not just my opinion it's yours to paris and you know it. You're just saying that to go with your concept of things being sexually attractive. I am most likely stating the obvious, but maybe you don't want to admitt this to yourself. My guess that your response to this would be ignorentally saying something is hot because you really just don't care the reason why you say things are hot..all you know is your mission is to do this no matter what comes in your way.