Horrific.

wow....

One bright side is both FEMA USAR Task Forces in Florida are based in Miami. One with with the Miami Fire Dept and the other is with Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Dept.

New bridge also. Still remember that highway bridge that fell into the river, was that in Minnesota?

(03-15-2018 03:15 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  New bridge also. Still remember that highway bridge that fell into the river, was that in Minnesota?

I believe so. But that bridge was old and decrepit IIRC.

(03-15-2018 03:17 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 03:15 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  New bridge also. Still remember that highway bridge that fell into the river, was that in Minnesota?

I believe so. But that bridge was old and decrepit IIRC.

Yup, I-35W Mississippi River bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Miss...ver_bridge

I drove over the bridge coming back from the cabin on Sunday, it collapsed on the next Wednesday at 6pm. That Wednesday was my sporting clay league and my wife was not able to get a hold of me until later in the evening. Pretty harrowing for her watching all this happen and not being able to get a hold of me.

I know one of the women who was on the bridge when it collapsed, she lived down the street from me. She used her rather substantial settlement to open an art cooperative that gave kids from the local schools a safe location to hang after school if they couldn't go directly home, among other things.

I used to volunteer for her at her space when it was getting set up, but, to me at least, she took it way too far left for my liking. Or maybe more fair to say, the artists at the coop took it too far left.

Good idea, good execution to get it started and I am still proud I was part of that, but we parted amicably when she and the artists wanted to become activist in all local issues de jour.

That's OK, honestly. Good people can disagree.

how long before dems blame trump

(03-15-2018 03:15 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  New bridge also. Still remember that highway bridge that fell into the river, was that in Minnesota?

Terrible news.

And if new construction there needs to be a sizable number of people going to jail.

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s...clnk&gl=us

Said Leonor: “It’s very important for me as a woman and an engineer to be able to promote that to my daughter, because I think women have a different perspective. We’re able to put in an artistic touch and we’re able to build, too.”

https://twitter.com/WeAreMCM



got deleted pretty quick

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

CEO of Figg

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

They've designed bridges all over the country

Any word on the cause?

(03-15-2018 05:27 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

CEO of Figg

Rumor was BS. FIU has zero to do with this.

(03-15-2018 05:38 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Any word on the cause?

Reported live earlier that they were stress testing and a cable snapped on a crane. Thats all ive heard other than stuff about self cleaning concrete and that this was the first bridge of its type.

(03-15-2018 05:40 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:27 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  [quote='shere khan' pid='15177116' dateline='1521151050']
how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

CEO of Figg



Rumor was BS. FIU has zero to do with this.

Did you read the article i posted? I wouldnt say nothing.

"Leonor Flores ’98 is a project executive and one of 63 FIU alumni who work for MCM, the construction firm building the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge, which will further connect FIU and its northerly neighbor, the City of Sweetwater."

(03-15-2018 05:36 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 04:57 PM)shere khan Wrote:  how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

They've designed bridges all over the country

not the first to collapse

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-br...s-10176596

(03-15-2018 05:43 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:40 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:27 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:18 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(03-15-2018 05:12 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  [quote='shere khan' pid='15177116' dateline='1521151050']
how long before dems blame trump

Rumor is that the bridge was designed by FIU engineering.

Designed by Figg Engineering, the same company that designed the new I-35 bridge to replace the collapsed I-35 bridge.....

I am going to take the long way around to get up North.

CEO of Figg



Rumor was BS. FIU has zero to do with this.

Did you read the article i posted? I wouldnt say nothing.

"Leonor Flores ’98 is a project executive and one of 63 FIU alumni who work for MCM, the construction firm building the FIU-Sweetwater UniversityCity Bridge, which will further connect FIU and its northerly neighbor, the City of Sweetwater."

Oh...I get the connection. Thanks.

(03-15-2018 05:38 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Any word on the cause?

Gravity.