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A friend of mine was one of the survivors as well, i didn't know until yesterday...

http://wcco.com/video/?id=29765@wcco.dayport.com


-E

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Wow, it's incredible she made it out. I can't imagine waking up and you're underwater, completely dark and murky covered with concrete. Wow.

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No shit! Talk about drive and determination to live!

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http://www.dot.state.mn.us/tmc/traff...meras_map.html

Mn/DOT camera today.

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Found the bridge, seen an accident too!

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Which camera are you looking at? I don't see anything.

Enes - I'm glad to hear your friend is ok. I can't believe she made it out; she was very lucky.

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Camera 628 for 35W & Washington.

641 Crash.

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I just drove up by there over lunch. Lots of people, lots of cops and undercovers but not much to see from the car at least. You can see part of it from University right by the Amoco station. Yikes.

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wow ... and look at that different color car.... hahaha most be one of them germen cars.

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What? Holy shit isn't that the Golf somebody has down there? I think I've seen that VW before.

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I've got more pictures for your veiwing pleasure me and some buddies snuck to the top of a closed off parking garage around 10 am 2 days ago and took these

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My brother just told me that one of my childhood friends was on it. He's at HCMC right now with a few broken ribs, back, legs, punctured lungs, and a pretty messed up face.

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I will be getting a first hand glimpse of it down there in ground zero when we go to clean up the train cars underneath the bridge that should be in the next couple weeks once all bodies are accounted for. Its truely sad. I was in nebraska for work when I heard about it at 1 in the morning and on the way home through nebraska and iowa bridges were under inspection everywhere the following day.

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I just saw on the NBC Nightly News that Jeremy Hernandez (the guy who pulled the kids from the school bus on the I-35 bridge collapse) has been offered free tuition from Dunwoody.

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Yea lots of racial talk lately.. politics are dumb!

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Where did I mention race? I would have given him free tuition too.

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You didnt but its going all around.. look at the news. People are wondering why bush took pictures with the little white kid while he was here, and talked with the bus driver instead of the hispanic kid who is now getting free tuition.

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People are fucking retarded if they are trying to bring racism into this ordeal.

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Politics make the world go around, if you got none you ain't getting anywhere.

Politics and discrimination/racism is what killed 26 of my family members.

Please learn from other peoples mistakes.

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http://www.hennepinonline.info/

11 people now confirmed dead.

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So final number dead was 13 I guess, but yesterday some interesting stuff was announced:

"Investigators have found 16 fractured gusset plates from the center section of the steel-deck truss bridge...."

"Basically, those 16 gusset plates were too thin to provide the margin of safety expected in a properly designed bridge such as this," Rosenker said. "These gusset plates were roughly half the thickness that would be required -- half an inch thick rather than an inch thick."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...la-home-center

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I heard them talking about that on the news this morning. I could have been mistaken, but I thought they said on channel 5 that all the gusset plates used on the entire bridge were too thin?

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That's what I understood, but of them all there were 16 that were fractured.

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It didn't help them at all that the construction company had way too much equipment on the bridge...Couple that with rush hour traffic and thin gussets and what do they expect to happen I guess? I wonder how long it takes the bridge builder to get sued now?

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Not to mention it was the hottest week of the summer.

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Not to mention how old it was. It had a pretty good run, what almost 50 years? Too bad it had to take out 13 people with it.

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1 year anniversary today, take a sec and remember the shyte that went down.

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Moment of silence is at 6:05 I believe

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I still remember sitting at TGIFriday's in Roseville that evening, it was hot that day and I was drinking a mojito. Someone yelled across the bar that the 35W bridge collapsed and then we watched it all unfold on TV.

*pours one out*

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Yea I remember this day last year very clearly.

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Hey Scheides, we should go to Spaghetti Factory again in memory.

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I will be drinking alcohol and smoking cigars in memory.

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RIP for those that went down for no reason.

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That was a terrible day. Good news though, the guy I knew that was on it made almost a full recovery. His back is still kinda fucked, but he's doing well. He's even been riding his motorcycle for a couple months now.

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I am so happy that Ali took a diffrent way home from school that day other wise she would have been on it at that time it collapsed

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Wow! I really surprised to see that this bridge is supposed to open next week. Didn't think it was supposed to open until around Dec. I went and visitied the site about 3 weeks after it happened. Hats off to all the workers that are making this happen, that and all your taxpayer money.

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There is a huge amount of money they get for each day it's finished ahead of time. Like a million or something, so I heard.

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Wow! I wish I'd get a million or something a day for all the IT projects that I finish ahead of time at work. Unfortunately not many of them are done ahead of time.

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The bonus is capped at $30 million, which I'm sure they will make since it's 3 months ahead of schedule.

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Wow that is unreal! I think we shall have to have a mitsustyle cruise across it to commemorate the occasion!