minneapolis/st. paul people!

[Tide In Mind Out]

is everyone ok

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/minnesota_bridge_collapse

that sucks

 

[Guthrum]

Dang.

 

[Sanctums]

Yeah, I went over the bridge earlier today. Around 4.....Luck I didn't stall I guess.

 

[Reign in Acai]

That bridge is fairly close to Minnehaha Falls Park right?

 

[Sanctums]

That bridge is fairly close to Minnehaha Falls Park right?

Ten minutes away. Give or take.

 

[Reign in Acai]

The news is trying to spin this to make it appear as if the Govt. knew all along that this was going to happen.

Fuck the media.

 

[Susperia]

It was tested in 2005 and deemed 50 out of 100% safe and deemed "deficient" by the engineers doing the testing. At least that's what NPR was saying all day. I haven't heard anything about the goverment being involved in this...

Either way it's an absolute nightmare what happened to those people and I just hope it doesn't happen again. Could we please PLEASE learn from our mistakes?


p.s. ^ Hi Reign in Acai

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

has furious B been on??

he's far too charming a fellow to be trapped in rubble

 

[lurch70]

i really think it has more to do with Dimmu not being booked for HCIII

 

[Reign in Acai]

Channel 9 out of Eden Prairie reports that the bridge collapsed due to aftershocks created from Heathen Crusade 2.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

haha

if anything were to crumble from HC 2 it'd be the poor kelly inn

 

[lurch70]

for some reason this whole bridge collpase story leaves me cold ... could have been totally avoided with proper inspection.

the city is going to get their asses sued

 

[cthulufhtagn]

city is going to get their asses sued BIG TIME, and rightly so it appears...

 

[MetalNations]

We are fine. All that is on the news is about the bridge. I want SPORTS!!!! GRRRRRR.

 

[JayKeeley]

Glad everyone is fine.

Although, considering the damage, I'm surprised more people didn't die a horrible death.

 

[Ars Magna]

Born and raised in MN. Watching the footage of that was similar to the 9/11 footage. It made me sick. On a lesser level, but it was still bad. My friends son and his mother were unaccounted for many hours after the collapse and they travel the bridge at precisely that time every day. Turns out she took a vacation day to visit a friend in WI and didn't tell anyone because it wasn't a big deal. We were all shitting bricks.

edit: I imagine it will be years before Mpls is back to normal.