Text 5092, 52 rader
Skriven 2007-08-02 17:32:14 av Jeff Smith (1:14/5)
   Kommentar till text 5087 av Björn Forsström (2:203/614.61)
Ärende: Sad Day in Minneapolis
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Hello Björn.

02 Aug 07 19:28, you wrote to me:

 JS>>     As some of you may be aware from sources like CNN and the
 JS>> like. There was a 8 lane highway (35W) bridge that collapsed in
 JS>> Minneapols at 6:05 pm CST.

 BF> What does 35W stand for?

     Technically the highway is designated I35W which stands for Interstate
35 West. Up in northern Minnesota the highway is known as I35. When it nears
the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul the highway splits with I35W
coming through Minneapolis and I35E going through St. Paul. The two highways
join back into I35 south of the cities.

 JS>> There are at least 150,000 vehicles that pass over that bridge
 JS>> daily. The 35W bridge spans the Mississippi river which divides
 JS>> the cities here of Minneapolis and St. Paul. So far the death
 JS>> toll is suprising but happily low at only 7 but that may rise as
 JS>> the days pass. The 35W bridge is about 7 miles away from where I
 JS>> live and I passed over that very bridge less than an hour before
 JS>> it collaped. It does make one think about one's own mortality and
 JS>> the confused set of priorities that many people often have.

 BF> It does, doesn't it.
 BF> And then we can keep up the shit in here......
 BF> It reminds me that we had a reservation that we didn't use in a
 BF> bungalow 20 m from the beach at Kao Lak in Thailand when the tsunami
 BF> came.

 JS>>     The bridge is about 40 years old which isn't really that old
 JS>> for bridges around here. And the bridge was inspected less that a
 JS>> year ago and was found to be structually sound and needing only
 JS>> minor surface repair. It will be interesting to see what is
 JS>> determined to be the actual cause of the collapse.

 BF> We had something similar here 1980 when a ship hit a bridge and made
 BF> it to collaps and 8 people died. It was about 650 m long with a hight
 BF> for boats at 45 m.

     The concrete bridge next to the 35W bridge in some of the pictures
was built in 1929. Newer is not always better. <g>


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Jeff

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