Rockygibraltar
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since February 2006
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Post by Rockygibraltar on Aug 2, 2007 16:57:39 GMT -5
I'm fine here. I live about 15 miles from that bridge. It's pretty shocking and hard to digest what has happened. There where a lot of hero's down there. All that wheren't severely injured ran into the wreckage to help anyone they could.
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Post by Cher on Aug 2, 2007 17:37:03 GMT -5
Glad you weren't on the bridge that day Joe, I'm sure being that close you've traveled it many times. Yes, there were many hero's that day, God bless them for helping.
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Post by MrP on Aug 2, 2007 20:35:36 GMT -5
I am OK also. I can't believe how everybody cares on this board.
I have been across that bridge many times. it just doesn't seem real It is not something that happens around here. My prayers go out to those who are affected by this.......Mrp
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 2, 2007 20:42:43 GMT -5
good to see RTH MN are all logging in and accounting for themselves.
we care for you and for all our extended families here in the States and all over the planet.
KD
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Post by beefjello on Aug 3, 2007 11:16:04 GMT -5
Cher we were staying near the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul. I just got back to Phoenix last night. Ang (cleo12797) asked me Tuesday if I wanted to go rock hounding with her, and I hoped to break away Weds afternoon to go but there was a meeting I couldn't miss. I don't know if our travels would have taken us over that bridge, but it's for the best that it never materialized.
It's just a miracle that there weren't more fatalities.
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Post by Lady B on Aug 3, 2007 11:22:24 GMT -5
So glad you are safe, Beefjello. For once a meeting turned out to be a possible life-saver.
Has anyone heard yet from Rockkitten? I know some of our RTHers in MN have signed in but I think we are still missing some.
My prayers continue...and some are of thanksgiving for all the miracles that happened after the collapse, like that school bus situation.
Lady B
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chassroc
Cave Dweller 
Rocks are abundant when you have rocktumblinghobby pals
Member since January 2005
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Post by chassroc on Aug 3, 2007 12:10:01 GMT -5
What a tragedy! My heart goes out to the dead and injured. What a way to go. Just driving home in rush hour traffic.
I know many people are worried after hearing that so many bridges are considered deficient; don't get too alarmed, there are degrees of deficient. Further, If we shut down all deficient structures the Country would be in chaos.
This does point out the need to invest in inspection and oversight. Up here in Boston, in a recently finished project called the Big Dig, the collapse of concrete ceiling panels(yes, that's right CONCRETE ceilings!) is blamed on the use of the wrong epoxy on bolts. We (you and me since the US of A footed a good part of the cost) paid a little company named Bechtel Parsons and Brinkerhoff for safety oversight. It seems like there is a good chance that even if the correct adhesive had been used, epoxy might fail to hold a bolt in concrete over the life of a highway tunnel (forever), doesn't it?
I regularly travel between Boston and New York and we had the collapse of the I95 Mianus River bridge in Connecticut. I worried about that crossing for years afterward.
Hoping the missing turn out to be survivors,
csroc
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Post by Cher on Aug 3, 2007 13:20:51 GMT -5
For the past few years, I've had to go across the bridge on 35E while it was being rebuilt and I used to think about that all the time ... what if. I know I'll have the willies the next time I go over it.
Brian, I'm glad to hear your home safely, I had missed your previous post that you were in St. Paul.
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Terry664
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since March 2005
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Post by Terry664 on Aug 3, 2007 14:02:09 GMT -5
I heard this morning there were 30 people still not accounted for, and there were more bodies in the water, but rescuers could not get to them yet. I hope this is wrong.
Terry
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Post by Bikerrandy on Aug 3, 2007 16:00:02 GMT -5
The number of missing has been revised to 8 people.
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cleo12797
spending too much on rocks
Member since April 2007
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Post by cleo12797 on Aug 4, 2007 16:36:00 GMT -5
Hi All,
Just wanted to say that I am alive and well. I am only 45 minutes from where the bridge is. I had just been on it that day. Scary. I would drive over it all the time and not think anything about. My son's apartment is a block away. In fact, the meeting place for worried family members is at the Holiday Inn across the street from his apartment. My heart goes out the people who were on it when it came down. There are still people unaccounted for.
Now they are saying that our bridge between Minn. and Osceola, WI is one of three bridges that is built the same way and in worse shape than the 35W bridge. It is also 13 years older. The NTSB was here yesterday for an inspection.
Thanks everybody.
Ang
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luv2hound
freely admits to licking rocks
I try & I try, but dang it! Those rocks just keep ending up in my pockets
Member since June 2007
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Post by luv2hound on Aug 4, 2007 19:36:57 GMT -5
This is such a tragedy. I sure hope all our RTH friends are ok. My heart goes out to all the families with hurt or missing people. It is so scary how many bridges are having problems.
My hubby has to drive across a big bridge(over water) twice a day. In fact any time I want to go into town I have to drive over this bridge to get off the island. Cant think about it to hard though or I'd never go anywhere.
~~Mitzi~~
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Post by beefjello on Aug 5, 2007 10:13:40 GMT -5
Glad you're ok Angie.
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