What's the big deal about the MN 35W bridge collapse?

Question

I live 30 minutes SE of the bridge location, and it seems like considering the handful of lives that were lost, that a lot of money and attention is being thrown at this, from the media and the federal government. Besides being a huge local traffic hassle, I don't see how this is a bigger deal than Hurricane Katrina, or the countless other bridge collapses in American history, or the countless lives that have been lost for numerous other reasons. Is $300 million federal dollars really needed to reroute traffic and reconstruct a single bridge in this midwestern battleground, gop convention-hosting state?

Answer 1

1. Any time any number of innocent lives are tragically lost, it's a big and horrific deal.

2. Politically, well, come on, no tragedy should be minimized into a political game-piece... but that's what makes politics the slimy game that it is.

3. Regarding the media: Here's how you know that nothing else big is going on in the world: all the major news networks interview victims, cousins of victims, friends of victims, 3rd cousins twice removed from friends of victims, engineers, janitors who wanted to become engineers, and they milk the story for all it's worth... and when they've milked it clean, they invent hysteria ("Who's to blame for this tragedy?").

OK? So, turn off the news channels, ignore the political babble, and have some empathy for a large number of families who just had their loved ones ripped from their lives.

If my own loved ones had perished on that bridge, I would not think myself lucky by comparison to Hurricane Katrina. I would grieve because my beloved sister or mom or dad or brother or whoever was suddenly gone for good... and I'd wonder if they suffered... and I grieve even more for not knowing.

Answer 2

If I had to guess, the easy answer is that the warmth led to it. With cool temperatures at night (helped by ability of cooling results of river) and blistering temperatures at mid day, i'm specific that there replaced into substantial thermal enlargement and contraction happening right here. the form artwork would have contributed to the cave in by ability of debris, of the line floor, being trapped interior the enlargement joints. If the debris replaced into pushed in on the top of the contraction (cooling cycle) and blocked the circulation of the enlargement technique, the form would desire to heave upward adequate to cut up the bridge from the commencing place, and then cave in. in basic terms one area of the bridge mandatory to have this failure to reason the popular cave in that something of the bridge experienced. would desire to a terrorist have been on the form team, filling the joints with debris? That' s the secret.

Answer 3

Maybe it is the shock of it happening at all.
Bridges usually don't just collapse out of the blue.

Six lives are as important as 300 lives. if you don't believe me, ask the grieving families.

Answer 4

Im shocked to hear this from a minnesotain. Iive right by the bridge and i am really upset about it. I guess you don't know anything about death do you?

Answer 5

If we don't figure out what happened, and fix it, its going to happen again.

Answer 6

i wonder if the chinese had something to do with it..first our jobs go there.. then they send back things that kill our animals and now our children.. kinda makes you wonder don`t it?