There Was Wonder Working Power on the Bridge

Aug 10, 2007 08:10

While Jerusalem was holding open house for the new tenants, the Palestinians, the former resident divine being passed through Minnesota, conducting his own inspection. Some of the first witness reports were more interesting than the, "The bridge rusted and fell-down," reporting that dominated. Something more than structural failure occurred because even though ultimate failure is sometimes explosive, bridges are not designed by that criterion.

"It sounded like a bomb and we ducked," said one man who works at a gas station near the collapse.

Radio talk show caller said all bridges around Minnesota/St.Paul are CLOSED... You posted a radio call in said all bridges now closed. Has this been verified.

I was watching Fox when they first showed it and for past few hours (except for 1033-1100pm) and a local reporter was talking to someone who said there were explosions THEN it collapsed.

"The mainspan seems to have sheared at both ends and dropped straight down, but the images don’t guarantee that so far. I saw some video footage that seemed to show lateral (downstream) deflection on that end of the main span, side span, and supporting steelwork.

Right mainspan pier or associated steelwork, or possibly a right side approach span pier or deck. Either that mainspan pier failed on it’s own, or else something transferred many times design load to that pier very rapidly and it structurally vaporized."

Another witness said they had to leave because of the smell of the explosion, and then did an "unflush the toilet" move by aheming her way to "uh...'truck'" all in one swell foop.

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