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((Barbisbigsister)). I am not worried about people on the internet... no one will be able to get to her... she pic is soo cute that one of the banks here are using it for a credit card promtion now.. her 4 year old brother took that pic..

((sushie)) they said the same thing when the towers were hit on 9/11 that no one thought such a tragdey could happen here.. WAKE UP PEOPLE... we are not invinclible... yes you never think it would hit sooo close to home and yes it scares you but it can happen to anyone one... I was reading an article online in my local paper last night about it and they were talking about the HWY 41 bridge in Chaska (where I live) that crosses the Minnesota River and how it collapsed while under construction in 1960.. scary they have been doing construction on that very bridge for the last year or so... I never though twice about driving over it...

((bayareagal)) the construction that they were preforming on that bridge had absolutly nothing to do with the structure they were re-surfacing the road... just routine maitnace here in Minnesota.. it was actually scheduled to be shut down to 1 lane that night...

the whole defiecieny thing was that in 2005 the bridge was given a 50 out of 120 on the inspection and it was up to the state to fix the bridge... in 2006 there were no flaws reported in the structure when it was inspected...

my friend told me that now it's all bridges in Minnesota that are to be inspected immediatly

I know.. something like that makes you stop and think... I hate bridges the freak me out there is a bridge ( Hwy 41 bridge going over the Minnesota River in Chaska) by my house that is under construction and I was telling my mom last night that I will think twice now before going over it... then I was online reading reports in our local news paper and came across a spot in the artical that says that says that the very same bridge (the HWY 41 Bridge) collapsed during construction back in 1960

yeah... what's really scary is that my uncle text me and said that he had just crossed the bridge 20 mins before it happened

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I'm ok... just tryin to let the reality of the tradgey that happend here yesterday sink in

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Hey all I didn't see this thread last night.. so I created one in the news area... I am from Minnesota... I don't go down that way much any more... but one of my best friends lives just 6 blocks away from the bridge and was at home when it happened nobody really knew what was going on at first....

the construction was nothing major just repaving it and filling in some holes it was due to close down to one lane last night... we are soo used to constructio around here I guess we don't stop and think about it...

the last report that I saw on tv was that they now have 4 confirmed dead and 79 injured there are still 20-30 people missing but that is just an estimate.. they were not allowed to start searching the water again until 10:45am central time because the remaining portions of the bridge were still shifting...

if you want to read any of the updates.. I put links in the news thread or you can go to www.startribune.com which is our local news paper they also have photos as well...

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it's just so crazy how fast life can change...

here is a link to an update from the news papaer

http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1339588.html

they are trying to find the rest of the missing now there are about 20-30 people still missing and they had to wait to search this morning because the remaining part of the bridge was still shifting... but they report it is stable now...

they are still saying that so far they don't think it was an act of terrorism but it will take at least a year to complete their investigation... the will remove the slabs of cement and reconstruct the bridge to see what happend.. Bush says he'll do what he can to help and the First Lady will be here tomarrow...

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http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1339588.html

here is a link to our local paper with an update... they have lowered the confirmed number of dead to 4 and raised the number of injured from 60 to 79