01-16-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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."
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01-16-2008
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#102
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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01-16-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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Originally Posted by Kevin_1G_Drummer
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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01-16-2008
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#104
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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01-16-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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Originally Posted by hippiekiller
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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01-16-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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08-01-2008
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#107
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flips McGee
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
1 year anniversary today, take a sec and remember the shyte that went down.
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08-01-2008
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#108
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Who has my man-card?
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
Moment of silence is at 6:05 I believe
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08-01-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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08-01-2008
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#110
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
Yea I remember this day last year very clearly.
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08-01-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
Hey Scheides, we should go to Spaghetti Factory again in memory.
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08-01-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
I will be drinking alcohol and smoking cigars in memory.
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08-01-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
RIP for those that went down for no reason.
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08-01-2008
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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08-01-2008
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#115
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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09-11-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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09-11-2008
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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09-11-2008
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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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09-11-2008
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#119
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
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Originally Posted by slowboy
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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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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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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09-12-2008
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#120
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flips McGee
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Re: 35W Bridge just Collapsed
Wow that is unreal! I think we shall have to have a mitsustyle cruise across it to commemorate the occasion!
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