I am surprised nobody mentioned the bridge collapse over the Mississippi river. They had a moment of silence in the Twins game last night, but did not cancell it because that is the main route out of the arena and it would have created caos. Tonight's game is cancelled. They don't have an official count on the dead because they are still searching. I've heard 7-9 on different reports.

CNN has a video of it happening (a security camera caught it).

This is the kind of thing that makes me realize that we're only a few years away from this shit happening at Zilwaukee. I've been to Minnesota and I guarantee their road contractors are not as bad as ours.

This is the kind of thing that makes me realize that we're only a few years away from this shit happening at Zilwaukee. I've been to Minnesota and I guarantee their road contractors are not as bad as ours.

Funny (not really), but my co-worker mentioned the same thing this morning. He said he's seen all kinds of stress fractures on the Zilwaukee, but I guess I've never seen them.

I've driven over that bridge a few times.

I'm glad it wasn't me.

Here's the safety report on the Zilwaukee. According to them it's rated much higher than it needs to be:

http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/zilwaukee_report8.html

The building of the Zilwaukee bridge took a lot longer than expected, IIRC, there were a lot of problems.

Scary stuff.

Can't imagine if something like this happened with Big Mac.

The Big Mac could be built like the goddamn pyramids of Giza but a strong gust of wind can still knock your car into the water.

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

I've driven over that bridge a few times.

I'm glad it wasn't me.


Ditto. I used to live about 10 minutes from it and would take it to go to the Twins games.

Fuck the Twins.

Remains found from Minn. bridge collapse

By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 3 minutes ago

MINNEAPOLIS - Human remains were found in two of four vehicles taken from the wreckage of the Interstate 35 bridge collapse since Wednesday evening, officials said Thursday.

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that the first remains were found a vehicle recovered about 8:20 p.m. Wednesday. The second set of remains were found about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

All the vehicles were taken from the Mississippi River bottom, the release said.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office was working to identify the remains and notify their families.

The bridge collapsed Aug. 1. Officials have released the identities of nine people killed in the crash. Before the latest recovery of remains, four people were listed as missing.

Is the Zilwaukee bridge on I-75 right by Saginaw? If so, iirc, they built the bridge from each end. Half way through, or so, they realized the 2 sides were about a foot off.

I've always heard that, but wasn't sure if true.

I just drove over it last week and was thinking of the Minni disaster. The Z bridge has these weird undulations in it. But I forgot about it pretty quick cuz on the other side was road construction, so I had something to bitch about.

There is a lot of info about it in the link I posted.