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First it started to fall over, then it fell over.

  • 02-08-2007 12:14pm
    #1
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭


    bbc news wrote:
    It was the height of evening rush hour on the I-35W bridge and traffic had been moving particularly slowly when the unthinkable happened.

    Many of the survivors compared the experience to being caught in a disaster movie.

    "I could kind of feel the bridge shake a little - it did a little shimmy," Caroline Yankelevich told Minneapolis's Star Tribune newspaper.

    "Then the bridge started falling, cars were flying everywhere and I saw the water coming up," said the lucky 29-year-old, who was said to have escaped an earthquake in California more than a decade ago.

    "The water was coming up pretty fast, so I rolled the window down... It seemed like a movie, and it was pretty scary."

    She managed to swim to the safety of the shore.


    We were all just screaming, everyone
    Jeisy Aguiza, 13

    In another car, Kristin West was listening to the radio shortly after 1800 (2305 GMT).

    "All I heard was noise," she told the Tribune, adding she felt she was floating when the bridge gave way.

    "I just thought I was going under and rolled down my windows real quick so maybe I'd have some escape," she said. "Then it stopped."

    She got out of her car but could not go anywhere until she was rescued by boat.

    "I don't even think I have a scratch on me," she said.

    Narrow escape

    One school bus carrying 60 children on their way back from a water park ended up in a precarious position on the edge of a collapsed slab of the bridge.

    The bus "just fell", said 13-year-old Jeisy Aguiza.

    "We were all scared. I opened my eyes and saw rocks. We were all just screaming, everyone," she said.

    "We all ran away from the bus. I'm just glad we didn't all fall in the Mississippi."

    "I heard a big noise," her seven-year-old brother Ronal said. "I saw little rocks come in the bus."

    The bus landed on its wheels on solid ground, and reports say all the children got off safely.

    Christine Swift's 10-year-old daughter, Kaleigh, was on the bus and called her mother.

    "She was screaming, 'The bridge collapsed!"' Ms Swift told the Associated Press news agency.

    Susan from Minneapolis e-mailed the following account to the BBC News website.

    "It was horrible to see this bridge collapsing... People [were] climbing into the water to help others get out of their cars, so they would not drown.

    "A young man saved 60 kids. As the bus was against the guardrail, he kicked the backdoor of the bus open and started carrying them out one by one. It was a sight to see. Everyone thought the bus was ready to go in the river. He was a life-saver and a hero!"
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6927512.stm

    Fair play to the guy who saved the kids.
    The word "hero" is bandied about quite a bit these days and its meaning has somewhat been diluted, but that guy is a real hero.

    As for the bridge, I blame Cecil Terwilliger.


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  • #2
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    "you may hear a slight ringing in your ears, but luckilly you will be nowhere near them"


  • #3
    Riamfada
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    One you man saves 60 kids. What was he doing, booting them out of the water Ronan O'Gara style?


  • #4
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Fair play to the guy.

    I do like where she said "All I heard was noise" though.


  • #5
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Because i'm not sure if people think this is real or not, here is the clip of what happened.

    Imagine sitting in your car and this happening to you!!!

    http://www.break.com/index/security-tape-of-mississippi-collapse.html


  • #6
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    fair play to yer man, but some fcking funny stuff was said all round. here was some of what i heard on Fox news lastnight
    "Some cars got crushed ontop of concrete"
    reporter wrote:
    " We just keep hearing about one act of heroin after another"
    a witness(science prof) was asked 'are there any locals going to help'
    his response wrote:
    "yes, loads, hundreds, infact, dozens"
    A Senator was asked what kind of facilites there are incase of such emergencies -
    Senator wrote:
    "well, one source of salvation, the river is damp..."


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dragan wrote:
    Because i'm not sure if people think this is real or not, here is the clip of what happened.

    Imagine sitting in your car and this happening to you!!!

    http://www.break.com/index/security-tape-of-mississippi-collapse.html

    The collapse without it being zoomed in on the security tape was shown in a thread o'er in the Engineering Forum. :p


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