Disaster in Minneapolis - Bridge Collapses


	Disaster in Minneapolis - Bridge Collapses

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8-1-2007 9:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eeda0b7d-3877-4bfd-9d58-55bd61a08488/A95B61A8-663D-48A6-AF07-66B4F2DDAE1F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/287D2692-0391-41C2-88A1-914D1841E0CE" alt="This video frame grab taken from KMSP television shows a burning tractor trailor at the scene of the bridge collapse." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>There are reports of seven dead after a freeway bridge over
the Mississippi River in Minneapolis collapsed today, sending many
cars into the water.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>A truck driver told the <EM>Star Tribune</EM> he was driving at
about 16 kmh in bumper-to-bumper traffic when the road fell away in
front of him.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>"I fell probably about 30 or 40 feet, landed on the [inaudible]
of the Mississippi. I'm so lucky to be alive," the unnamed man
said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>"On the way down I thought I was dead. I literally thought I was
dead. My truck was completely face down, was pointing towards the
ground, falling towards the ground.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>"My truck ripped in half. When I got out of my truck it was
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through the windshield. I only have a cut on my face from the
steering wheel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ive-never-seen-anything-like-this/2007/08/02/1185648017327.html"><P>"I saw a tanker go head first into the water. There was only
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