Eating Noddemix wrote:I have a fair amount of friends in the Twin Cities... I sure hope they're all okay. Will make some phonecalls to make sure.

Make `em text messages, friend, or call their landlines. Disaster response teams are begging people to stay off their cell phones--at least text messages eat up very little bandwidth.

alex maiolo wrote:It's crazy because only 3 people are dead, right?

They're still collecting people, Alex. Six confirmed now, but there are probably more people in the water, and there may have been people under the bridge on land.

This is insane.

Glad to hear your wife is ok Chris.

Bubber wrote:

Eating Noddemix wrote:I have a fair amount of friends in the Twin Cities... I sure hope they're all okay. Will make some phonecalls to make sure.

Make `em text messages, friend, or call their landlines. Disaster response teams are begging people to stay off their cell phones--at least text messages eat up very little bandwidth.

Will do.

Horrifying.

Western engineering, wtf?

Bubber wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:It's crazy because only 3 people are dead, right?

They're still collecting people, Alex. Six confirmed now, but there are probably more people in the water, and there may have been people under the bridge on land.

I see. That makes more sense. I thought I misheard - "33" or something.

First the steam pipe in NYC, now this.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we need another WPA.
And another FDR.

-A

Not to be crass, but apparently it will take two years to replace this. It's one if not the major route through Minneapolis. Traffic has been really bad even with the bridge in place.

Weird seeing Minneapolis on BBC news.

zom-zom wrote:Not to be crass, but apparently it will take two years to replace this. It's one if not the major route through Minneapolis. Traffic has been really bad even with the bridge in place.

Weird seeing Minneapolis on BBC news.

That's not crass at all. I-40 was closed for months due to a rock slide and it was a mess.
People need to start thinking of things like this as soon as possible. You can mourn the dead at the same time you realize that life has to go on.

-A

As of 12:12 am (Central), here's the latest:

9 dead, 60 injured, 20 missing

MNDOT and Google have moved quickly in light of this tragedy...





Sorry but the dark humor has set in as a defense mechanism after wringing my hands for four hours after finding out a friend from work went down with the span (he's okay).