When a Bridge Falls: Disaster in Minneapolis | Retro Report | The New York Times

[@breadwineandsong4014]

190 vehicles, meaning at least 190 people dropped ten stories on a bridge, and only 13 die? How amazing is that?

[@shawnapalmer4704]

Bread, Wine and Song - A friend of mine was on the bridge when it happened. It's great not more people died, but she did break her back. There were a LOT of horrific injuries as a result. The hospitals were inundated with victims.

[@D4Deadly5752]

Gods plan u only die when the time is right straight fax

[@Ronin.Samurai]

Abdulkadir Abdulkadir god doesn’t exist. This is caused by the contractors moron

[@thegoldennuggetyt]

@Abdulkadir Abdulkadir god is not real. That’s all I have to say.

[@JoseFloresEC]

@@Ronin.Samurai You can't necessarily prove or disprove that. so you're kinda a moron

[@lovelyaya1811]

“Who’s at fault?” THE STATE! The entire darn state. Now fix it and pay those poor people! Smh

[@jethro1177]

Lovely Aya you are correct, there’s a cap on how much you can sue the state for so minnesota threw the contractor that was working under the bus. U can’t do nothing on a bridge without Mn dots authority so how do you think the 300 ton worth of construction equipment was allowed on the bridge.

[@isaacb5968]

Republicans*

[@gav2529]

@@isaacb5968 *Morons like you

[@hankhicks1108]

Saying "THE STATE!" is at fault is the same as saying EVERYBODY is a fault and NOBODY is at fault.

[@deekang6244]

The entire country. Those major bridges on interstates are overseen by a separate agency.

[@Justyburger]

No money for bridges but plenty for war. Just appalling.

[@elohr82]

Amen..

[@gaugebrady5416]

Yea they can do government assistance but can’t fix a bridge

[@rex02244]

@@elohr82 a lot of money goes to the military cause they have the best scientists, engineers and technology. some of those engineers and scientists help make things like better.

[@wolfgang548]

And plenty of money to give to Israel.

[@carsnbikes914]

Justyburger lmao stop

[@l.marcellinamartinez5269]

I know someone who died that day,he would of survived but he chose to help a lady get out of her car when part of the bridge fell on him he died instantly,R I P Peter.

[@worldpeac3]

A hero!

[@IsraelCube]

My dad was coming off of the bridge and onto the ramp to Minneapolis when he heard a loud crash, pulled over, and got out to see the bridge he was literally just on about a minute before was gone. Me, my sister and my mom were on that bridge 2 days before as well. Ever since then, my mom is frightened and scared out of her mind to go on any bridge, except the new 35W bridge.

[@katelynbenson8671]

I was on the bridge with my mom a day before. My brother was on it 15 mins before.

[@juliahcornell]

I took that bridge to school every single day. I remember hearing about the collapse and having to take detours for a long, but I was only 7 the fact that I could have easily died on it is only just dawning on me now.

[@marksnider9378]

35 w all the way to Texas ◇.

[@Petronilla_89]

Faker

[@0.1.feb.]

Is this an ad for the new bridge?

[@AviationNut]

My friend went down with that bridge luckily he only broke his wrist and few finger's. Now when he drives he looks on maps to avoid bridges or tries to find the shortest bridges so he can get across quickly. I remember in 2009 we got stuck in traffic on a bridge and he actually got a panic attack he was so scared, there is no way you would get him to cross a bridge on foot now. If he is on a bridge for longer then 10 seconds he gets a full blown panic attack and before this accident happened he didn't think twice about crossing a bridge, it never even crossed his mind that a bridge may collapse.

[@worldpeac3]

I wasn't even on the bridge, but grew up in the Twin Cities, and have a similar reaction over bridges. I don't have a full-blown panic attack, but it's always borderline like the smallest extra thing would make me have one. This footage forever imprinted on my psyche. I'm sorry for your friend, if you see this and get a chance to tell him, let him know he's not alone and his feelings are well valid given his experience. Also that others like me experience what he does due to this tragedy. God didn't want him to go and obviously protected him from worse! Bless him

[@rustyshackelford8769]

Rome built bridges that are still standing. Just sayin'.

[@datamasked623]

Bridges that were designed to carry several hundred tons of human beings, beasts, and siege weapons. If any of those Roman bridges had to carry 400,000 cars and trucks per DAY (like the I-35W bridge was doing when it went down) they'd be little more than piles of dust right now. Just sayin'...

[@rustyshackelford8769]

Thanks for making my point. Roman bridges did what they were designed to do without fail. The I-35W bridge had a design flaw that caused it to fail, regardless of what was traveling over it. Bridges can be built today that will last for centuries, but they don't because the cost is too high. They try to save money wherever they can.

[@datamasked623]

Rusty Shackelford That coupled with handling loads it was never designed to handle...with no maintenance.

[@TWLogik]

Rusty Shackelford know one looks at the significant changes in this country that can impact bridges. You have more ppl driving huge Suvs, our waistlines have greatly expanded and in my city we have double buses. You can't believe that these issues are not going to impact a bridges stability. Right after this collapse in my city we had almost the same thing happen abt 2wks later but someone noticed the roadway had shifted and a disaster was avoided. They are still working on this bridge in 2017.

[@TWLogik]

Rusty Shackelford that was like back in 1940 and 50s ...

[@larryrowe5259]

Here in Illinois july 1st 2019 gas tax was raised 19 cents for infrastructure on roads and bridges. Lot of people are upset about it. They need to watch this video

[@ct6502c]

The problem is that a lot of that money isn't actually used for transportation like they claim. It gets put in the general fund and wasted on other things. We had that same problem here in California, and we already pay the highest for gas in the entire country. If there was legislation passed that FORCED the state to only use the money on fixing roads, bridges, and other important infrastructure then more people would agree to it.

[@dougn2350]

Missouri put a gas tax increase on the 2018 ballot. It failed because 50% of the tax was earmarked for state police. I voted against it because of that.

[@TempoDrift1480]

Yeah, but is that money used to improve infrastructure or yeah... Not...

LOL, I live in Illinois, you will not see Pritzer fixing anything, I'm still driving over the same potholes "are upset about it" yeah, and the 50%-100% plate sticker increase. There is no reason to jack it up that much. And if gasoline tax originally is for the roads, where are they spending that money in the first place?

[@andrewjensen8189]

Its so stupid to get mad about that... Like why shouldn't the people who use, and depreciate the infrastructure pay for the repair bill?

[@RoneyThomas]

I really love the reporting style of retro reports.

[@chistinelane]

Roney Thomas yeah, I'm on track to watch them all at this point

[@weedman0987654321]

You're a retro reporter

[@mr.j9303]

Before the media was bought by the 3 %ers!

[@sambrownsings]

This is considered retro now?! I'm old

[@bettyshabazz4092]

Same mini-docu style. I've watched them all New York times has one one KZbin you world probably like it as well!

[@thanh_banh]

my mom was on the bridge when it collapsed, she survived thankfully, but she tells us about what happened and honestly sounds terrifying.

[@IronMan-jj2fd]

13 dead right? Actually a women had this dream 3 days prior to this! And it all turned out exactly true, the red car teetering at edge, 13 dead Minneapolis bridge collapse. It's scary how it comes to people's dreams, & happens exactly the same way!

[@Plumeria808]

@@IronMan-jj2fd I remember hearing that

[@april2615]

I'd pay an extra 20 cents a gallon to prevent this kind of disaster

[@SKANK_HUNT49]

april b for every gallon of gas you buy save 20 cents. Then give that cash to your state government every year.

[@kevinvansea]

Watch the video of Bernanke refusing to explain where the missing 9 trillion as well as Rumsfeld claiming back in 2001 that there was a missing 2-3 trillion and you will see that they don't really care about the infrastructure. You don't need to pay extra when all the money that should have been going to rebuild, maintain and upgrade the infrastructure has been looted. Bail out fat wall street criminals, Ponzi scheme frauds and banks that are "too big to fail" but let the rest of the country go deeper into disrepair.

[@brendanwood1540]

The US Government gives $60 million per day to Israel.

[@brendanwood1540]

Kevinvansea+ ... Israel... Zionism.

[@SKANK_HUNT49]

Brendan Wood only 60 million a day that's all?

[@JLxavyo]

My mother was in the bridge 5 mins before it collapsed and she still lives on I’m so grateful she is alive.

[@davidg.3617]

I drive every morning through the new 35w bridge on my way to school and I always remember the people who died in the collapse. RIP.

[@sonnyk4840]

Awwwww. Good man.

[@PressStartOnce]

This shook me and my work friends. We drove over this bridge for lunch the day it fell. I remember when driving back over it to work saying something does not feel right. They had so much equipment on it and there was no movement. All of us in the car felt odd about it as we slowly moved over the bridge. I remember telling my boss we need to get off this bridge. About 5 hours later it fell.. still hard to believe.

[@mikerusso703]

Way to tell somebody

[@worldpeac3]

You my friend, have psychic abilities whether you are aware or not. I'm saying this with goosebumps as I have the same gift. Trust your intuition, my friend! It is always right, especially with people like us.

[@allthatjazzspaz95]

I was 13 when this happened. I lived in a Minneapolis suburb, and remember the exact moment when I found out the bridge collapsed. It was a huge deal, none of us could believe that it happened.

[@rakiaf21]

I was ten and lived mere 15 minutes away from Minneapolis

[@c3s4r612mx]

I was 12 in lived on the SouthSide when this happen, it was crazy seeing this on the news

[@Naleni604]

I was 5 and I remember my friend talking about how her and her dad just getting off before it collapsed

[@FATWONTON]

What a boring comment. Why even share that?

[@skinlesswalnut6259]

@@Naleni604 lol 5

[@mattkominsky7308]

I think we need to revisit this after what happened in Baltimore

[@sal-the-man]

Buddy the Baltimore collapse was from something that it just couldn’t withstand. Bridges are meant to hold cars up and safely without moving too much or too little. You don’t expect a bridge to take a ship hitting it dead center that’s just not how science works.

[@l.tc.5032]

10 years. Wow. And our infrastructure still sucks.

[@Lucia-uk4jq]

some things just stay the same.

[@dwjoseph59]

Yep 😢😢

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

That infrastructure got there from 90% tax rates on rich people. Google :)

[@Jack-jw2no]

America is so big it’s hard bleep everything from being bar

[@mdb2879]

Look at Morandi Bridge in Genova Italy

[@The_A_Cast]

*This is literally my worst nightmare come true.* I have to drive across a bridge every day for work, and this is what I pray to NOT happen every single day!

[@olgapagan4773]

@2:13 that person's broken foot hurt me just looking at it. It's a miracle that only 13 died. America is a joke. Politicians live like royalty on tax payers money yet we the taxpayer's struggle to survive. It's a joke!!!!

[@pamelaraney4654]

Olga Pagan both lower 🦵🏼 legs.

[@02tyandy]

You know they pay taxes too.

[@mplayer1021]

Unfortunately this will happen again, I just hope no one is seriously injured in the coming disasters nationally. Sadly we still aren't investing any money in the up keep of our bridges, dams, and general infrastructure. Many pieces of essential infrastructure are severely neglected, structurally eroding, and still being used. The simple truth is people will die because of this

[@dwjoseph59]

😭😭😭 sadly true

[@rashaoo9377]

It happened again in Florida 2018 i wished no one injured like you said but people died

[@CobaltThunder267]

Unfortunately, it will take blood to get our aging roads back into shape. We are living off the infrastructure paid for by our grandparents, and between then and now, the world has changed a lot. We have to make our governments responsible, however, that won't happen until they scramble to put a political band-aid on after a disaster.

[@SquidCena]

mplayer1021 it happened again 8/14/2018 and a bridge in Italy collapsed...

[@lfewell2161]

Frightening to think how many bridges around the world are on the verge of collapse.

[@murkmeplease6991]

i was a little girl during this my mom was driving and it collasped a few second after we got off we felt it rumble and it was scaring i know have ptsd and have to hold on to the door when we drive over bridges to have a easy escape these accidental things effect people in there everyday life

[@kadenstimpson3167]

What kind of car were you driving?

[@helterskelter917]

Well if you fall into the water you wouldn’t be able to open the door because of the pressure..

[@glennparker73]

Prove it

[@Kburd-wr6dq]

Ayne IV you can, you just have to let the pressure equalize. The smartest thing to do is open the windows before u go under

[@helterskelter917]

Kyle Burdick, rarely you have time for that.. So the best thing is to open/break the window and escape that way, not trying to open the doors;

[@JWitt30]

Brian Williams was on that bridge and rescued dozens of people

[@AspinceLaframboise]

Levi For Waifu, U joo eh... Ö

[@triangletriangle4331]

I'm dead

[@billkittleman9631]

😁😁

[@rebeccamartinez7053]

Boom!

[@anthonyzimba3601]

JWitt30 good point he also was taken on machine gun fire while rescuing.

[@FuslieNTR]

All bridges have a safety score. It’s horrifying to see most of the bridges are barely passing or failing 😨

[@ehombane]

Yep. KZbin started recommending these falling bridges, first the one from Singapore, next the one in Italy, and I was surprised to see how many people about the bad shape, but nobody was doing nothing. Next, I found a list of collapsed bridges. Man, they are so many. in 1800s were about 30. Sure, not so much industry, and many sure did not made it into books. But first half of last century, was one at two years. Second half more than one a year, and last two decades, two a year. Sure, is in the whole world. But still is too much. Technology is advancing and should be safer, but is the opposite.

[@elizaschmitt8597]

This was so tragic. I remember my mom calling friends and family who took that route and freaking out. When we saw the sight the next week there were flowers and notes in the chain link fence from a neighboring bridge. So scary

[@EllaGP22]

“A bridge in America shouldn’t fall down” - Amy Klobuchar 2007

[@FloozieOne]

Walk under any old metal bridge and look up. You will see the rust eating away at it and often loose bolts too. For a concrete bridge look for tiny cracks and very slight off-centering on the columns. Would you drive a car for 17 years that had an axle crack that could go at any minute? If you didn't have the money to fix it you wouldn't just paint it and continue to use it. This information about bridges has been out there for a decade or more and nothing has been done, so we shouldn't be surprised when this happens. It will happen again, and again, and again and only when the death toll gets high enough will public outrage cause a few of the biggest ones to get upgraded. The rest will rot away.

[@elohr82]

Its really scary because you're right. Ive seen some very rusty bridges and i dread what could happen to them.

[@dknowles60]

how come there are metal rail road bridges that are over 140 years old and in great shape

[@ShidaiTaino]

dknowles60 proof ?

[@duggo7685]

I remember on a vacation where i visited family, we walked on this huge bridge that had two sideways on each side. I was always super nervous walking on it because it looked extremely old and rusted, the bolts didn't look right, and many of these metal support beams that lay on some sort of concrete pillars were way off to the side. My mom asked me why i was so nervous when walking to town and i told her i always imagined what would happen if the bridge collapsed. She straight up told me "well we all fall and die". Did not help that wayyy below us was just a river with a ton of rocks and forestry.

[@jocelyn104723]

still vividly remember when this happened as I had been at the Minnesota university hospital right by the bridge a day or two before. I remember being at home recovering from my surgery and my family being flooded by calls from other family members wondering if we had been okay. It’s just insane to think something like this can happen out of nowhere

[@cully329]

My grandma got off the bridge 3 mins before it collapsed

[@cedricsucks]

@@0.1.feb. wow thats just disrespectful

[@randomgamer614]

김태진 🖕

[@Erratos]

@@0.1.feb. wtf is wrong with you

[@Mercado99]

Ugh as a 911 dispatcher for almost 7 years now who's also been an EMT and loves all sides of emergency services/first responding this makes my blood run cold. I can just picture what some of those 911 calls were like and how extremely injured so many were. Truly terrifying.

[@rjwalker6677]

I live in Minneapolis, and this bridge was a poor overall design and was fracture critical. Meaning if one part of the bridge broke, the entire bridge could collapse. I'm no expert, but even I could tell just by looking at it, that if one support breaks, the whole thing could go. , They don't design them like that anymore. I think they need to give a top priority to maintaining or replacing any other bridges around the country with this type of design.

[@ahicks414]

We have a viaduct -- a very busy viaduct -- here in Omaha that is the same style. It was scheduled to be closed and replaced, starting in fall of 2015. Inspectors have said it was only 21% safe back in 2014. Still not started. As far as I can tell, Omaha has no viable workaround for traffic. It is now over 2 years later and Omaha still has no viable workaround for traffic. Uh huh. SMDH. Semi-trucks use this viaduct quite a lot, too.

[@teeyang2208]

RJ Walker I live in Brooklyn Park in you're Metro

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

That's called "redundancy." In this case, it apparently had none.

[@KrisMcCool]

I mean, yeah the bridge looks pretty... just unstable.

[@dknowles60]

as jack webb use to say just the facts no one has the guts to say it was parking 400 tons of construction equipment on the bridge that did it. 400 tons is the weight of 2 diesel locomotives. let me put 2 diesel locomotimes on any road bridge and it will fall down

[@schroyerfamilydaily7333]

How scary it must have been to feel the bridge shift and then drop. Mid air thinking, “am I going to make it, is this it?” I’m sorry for the 13 losses of life but it could have been worse. We definitely need to look at making sure all of our bridges are maintained so this does not happen again. I Drive from Minnesota to Wisconsin often by taking a bridge over. I hope it will never fall and will stay maintained.

[@Lynn-rv4ty]

This is what made me afraid of bridges for nearly a decade, and it didn't help that I was young enough at the time not to understand that all bridges were like that, I thought that every single bridge I was on could collapse at any moment

[@Lynn-rv4ty]

Lmao after watching this I'm scared of bridges again

[@worldpeac3]

Same Lynn! As a Minnesotan, I've grown up with a fear of bridges because of this, ESPECIALLY when they are over water (i.e. the new 35W bridge).

[@Lynn-rv4ty]

@@worldpeac3 me too, like a kid from my daycare’s mom was one of the people who made it out of the river. when there traffic on a bridge over the river or under a bridge/tunnel i always get super nervous

[@markvaars37]

I literally watched the bridge fall right infront of me. I was seconds from being on it. I drive over it every day now and every single time I think of this day.

[@ryanmecillasmusic]

Were you one of the cars in the vid that were making U turns?

[@flybabyjake]

No you dont

[@markvaars37]

@@flybabyjake yes I do

[@flybabyjake]

I have lived in in New York city for over 30 years and watched the world trade centers collapse on 9/11/01. I was on brooklyn bridge that day and stuck in traffic for hours. I pass by ground zero on my way to work every day. I don't think about 9/11 every time. I haven't thought about it for years unless they post an outdoor commercial on the expressway about 9/11 victims compensation fund or talk about 9/11 anniversary on radio. I am positive that the scale of damage was much greater here than over there. It would be different maybe if you actually were on the bridge and went down with it or you lost someone close to you. Then I wouldn't refute it so stop exaggerating on your lazboy behind the computer monitor.

[@nq6508]

Final Destination lol. Jk

[@waranle961]

As truck driver this makes me angry

[@luzcaicedo9879]

I feel you.

[@TheLonesomeBricoleur]

A few weeks ago I was driving home in slow traffic, and I noticed wooden repairs under the pavement of three different overpass structures. They seemed very solidly built and they looked like they were installed to catch falling debris or support drying concrete rather than to hold up large span sections - but each one was still uniquely disconcerting to behold. 😒

[@Kiba69420]

7:52 Black Camry has some pretty bad alignment issues lol. Look at that sway! Jesus, how do they drive that thing?

[@wanderingangelstudio1359]

Obeyance DeKat I noticed that too. No car should shimmy like that.

[@EpicATrain]

HAHAHA I noticed that too! I went through the comments to see if anybody else had noticed that. xD

[@tyetheknot1227]

Lolol

[@gopherfan118]

I remember walking along the west Bank of the Mississippi months after this happened and still seeing bent metal still in the rover

[@datamasked623]

The lesson learned here is that it's just cheaper for the taxpayer to let bridges fall down with taxpayers sitting on them than it is to just pay more money to the government to fix and/or replace them. The American way. Build...but never maintain.

[@linmcc8342]

The government gets plenty of taxes. Maybe they should quit giving it to other countries and illegals.

[@fredericrike5974]

The sad thing about the fall is that it is much "sexier" in a politician's view to build new roads and name them after some favoored donors great grandfather than to do the work and get funds to pay for road and bridge repair. The other choice is to build them like the bridges were a hundred years ago- many of those "overengineered" bridges are still carrying hundreds of thousands of cars they were not originally designed for every day- but they would cost 20% or more than the cheap 40 year lifespan designs currently being approved.

[@ShidaiTaino]

Lin McC lmao how much are we giving them

[@beenaatlee8020]

Because maintaining will cost more money every year than build that is for one time only they never have any budget for that

[@worldpeac3]

Minnesotan here. I was a kid when this happened and remember it vividly. I was watching TV in the living room when breaking news came on which was this being reported. My dad drove over this bridge almost daily and luckily didn't that day (divine intervention where you least expect it). I called out to my dad and we watched in awe as this was occuring live. I was probably about 9 years old and remember this scene clear as day at the age of 27 now. I drive over the new 35W, forever holding my breath, always in fear that it could collapse. Any bridge I cross now, especially over water, I drive anxiously with an elevated heartbeat until I know I'm on solid ground AND not over water. This tragedy has impacted my life forever in my reliance of bridges and the thought that my dad could've died if he drove over it that day. My heart goes out to the victims, Minnesotans will never forget you. I know my father and I won't.

[@MWTravelNOutdoors]

I drove on that bridge a couple days before the collapse. it was pretty scary then with all of the materials that was on top of the bridge. But to blame a bridge company that couldn't maintain it caused by low funds is wrong. They did what they could on the maintain the bridge on the funds the had. The government shouldn't set aside people's safety over money.

[@livelaughlove1893]

My dad was on it an hour before it collapsed

[@hailie4474]

my dad drove over the bridge 2 min before it collapsed it was very scary I was only 3 and my mom and dad just got married

[@dknowles60]

what did people think would happan when you park 400 tons of construction equipment on it, that is the weight of 2 diesel locomotives

[@vdog6262]

Literally what's happening with the virus

[@TheSapphireCat]

Im from a suburb of Minneapolis and I remember the day I saw this on the news. I was 7. For years afterward, I was terrified of driving over bridges. I held my breath and said prayers every time my parents drove over a bridge.

[@battleking0722]

I was there my step dad was very injured

[@linmcc8342]

Hope he is better.

[@kierstenr1993]

One of the vehicles was a horse trailer with two horses inside. The two women in the vehicle died too. A friend of mine knew them. It was horribly sad. It must have been terrifying too.

[@itzfusionplex4266]

I remember I was 9 years old at the time, my father would take that bridge everyday for work and he could’ve died if he went on the bridge just a couple hours late.

[@katiea2228]

I will never forget that collapse. I was only 7, but I remember my mom telling me a few years later that my grandpa was almost on the bridge when it collapsed. He was supposed to have a doctor’s appointment, that would’ve sent him home on that bridge around the time of the collapse. Thankfully, something came up so he couldn’t go. I will be forever grateful for whatever came up that made him miss that appointment.

[@astrid_owLUL]

one of my family members who died on is :(

[@MissSuperNova2006]

I am so sorry for your loss I was little in this happen

[@francisco8299]

Sorry about that, God bless 🙏

[@mochas9249]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@savagepanda8458]

Sorry for your loss 🙏

[@nubiansnowchic]

There’s a bridge here in Cincinnati (Brent Spence) that is long overdue for demolition and reconstruction, but no one is doing anything about it except twiddling their thumbs.

[@dknowles60]

they why are there older rail road bridges next to it in way better shape

[@fromthehaven94]

Where traffic going in one direction is underneath the traffic going in the opposite direction. For a time, there was the possibility of the bridge getting fixed, but the states of Ohio and Kentucky, ruled by Republicans, have done nothing significant.

[@jonny844]

I remember this. I grew up in Minneapolis, and my dad took this bridge to work and back every day. I remember watching the news reports on television with my mom and my brother as my mom was trying to call my dad to make sure he hadn't been driving on the bridge when it gave.

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

I live in Minneapolis too and I remember trying to make cell phone calls after this happened and you couldn’t because everyone in the city was trying to call their family to check in on them.

[@kaleschulte6755]

My uncle was on it 5 minutes before, and now has a phobia over bridges.

[@TheNavyguy44]

I was in boot camp when this happened. They came in the compartment and asked if anyone was from Minneapolis or near by. A couple guys were. They got to call their family and make sure everyone was ok. Luckily they were.

[@corneilusdonaldson1858]

Collapsed 40 years after constructions? Terrible Maintenance? Sounds very familiar now...

[@suzannalytle2758]

As of Today, there are over 46,000 bridges in the US that are considered structurally deficient. over 16,000 of those bridges are fracture critical. It's been estimated that if we started repairs today it will take over 80 years to fix them all.

[@chasebrown6508]

5 Billion for a border wall but no money to fix our nations crumbling infrastructure.......... as an engineer I am sicken 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@linmcc8342]

As a citizen, I am sickened by trillions of dollars given to support other countries and tens of thousands of illegals. Use all that money for the wall and bridges.

[@knunyabeasewhacks8744]

No point in fixing up the house, if we're just going to give it to the neighbors.

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

@@knunyabeasewhacks8744 Yeah I know right? The billions we send to Israel and Saudi Arabia. It's gotta end. USA BABY!

[@gelpen7882]

Lin McC if we stop giving money to poor Central American countries, then more poor people will suffer. Out of desperation, they will migrate to America for a better life. Resulting in another increase in immigration. Btw, we spend billions more on the military so....

[@patlacy1739]

Check your politicians. Stop ignoring truths. Stuff like this will happen more and more.

[@orion10x10]

Came here to see how much we haven't learned anything after learning about the Frick Park bridge in Pittsburgh collapsing today

[@dennismoore7895]

Whose fault? Any politician that voted aginast funding. Any that was involved in keeping the funding low is to blame

[@mochica96]

Major yikes. Has me thinking about the bridges in my city and the last time I've seen repairs on them.

[@tunezjunkie87]

3:30 That's Randi Kaye! She worked for WCCO in the Twin Cities just a few years prior before she left for CNN. I was 19 when this happened. It was just unbelievable.

[@Lunar_Blacksmith]

I was working at Cedar Point in Ohio at this time. I remember the night before this happened I had been having a normal dream about being in an opera house when a balcony collapsed. Then the dream was interrupted and I was holding on to a rope, trying to keep a bridge from falling. In my dream I saved a lot of people by keeping it up, but I couldn't keep it up forever. Then when I saw this happen on the news the next day I was just floored.

[@luvinmysailor]

Katie Wahl that's scary as heck!!!!!

[@jumpingspider7105]

I'm sure it's not a coincidence.

[@visionist7]

Did Maverick attract a lot of crowds that year?

[@CoasterMan13Official]

Just a few years ago, the I-85 Bridge in Atlanta collapsed, however, I don't ever see anyone talking about it. Its collapse was similar to that of 35w. Except the i-85 bridge wasn't over water.

[@GH-oi2jf]

That bridge fell because it was damaged by a fire under it. There were no injuries, so less newsworthy. The Atlanta bridge was not at all similar to the Minneapolis bridge in construction. It was a common concrete structure.

[@mr.lettuce8287]

I was driving my delivery truck about 2 blocks away I remember the sound it was awful

[@Mara-en1lc]

i live in minnesota and i was paranoid after the minneapolis bridge fell

[@rosemarygustafson6631]

This happened on my seventh birthday... I remember seeing it on TV, and realizing that my dad had been in the cities that very day. He was ok though :)

[@ddss97]

Please bring this series back more often

[@wiilover07]

This was shocking I saw it on TV. I'm from and live in Minnesota. I can't believe it's almost 13 years ago. R.I.P to those that lost their lives.

[@MGMVE]

I had gone to college in Arden Hills, and drove on the I 35 W bridge all the time Graduated in May 2007, moved to a different state afterwards bridge fell in August 2007, I had chills when I saw this. Considering how often I had driven on it.

[@iamonlyme4me]

And we're still falling apart....

[@moviesgalore3]

My cousin drove over that bridge not even an hour earlier. It's terrifying to think that if something had delayed her, she could have been on that bridge when it collapsed.

[@GorlicBreadz]

This is all because somebody was feeling lazy or didn't want to replace, or a certain replacement was cheaper or so, when it's literally not about what you want, it's about the public's safety. People hurt and died because of this

[@SuzieNerds]

Apparently my family had crossed this bridge earlier in the day. We were at a friend's place when it collapsed, and we had to find a different way home that night. Fortunately, we made it back home safe.

[@monkie-cmonkie-do3561]

I was working at Fairview hospital in Minneapolis and I was in the surgical center waiting for the patients to come by ambulance to come strait to surgery...craziest night of my life. We have things like this happen but we can build the Vikings and twins (two of the crappiest teams imo) brand new stadiums in 2010 & 2016. 🤦‍♀️

[@fnhwk]

Doesn't matter if they're good or not. It's a business and new stadiums bring in more money. Simple economics if you think about it.

[@monkie-cmonkie-do3561]

@@fnhwk yep

[@worldpeac3]

don't hate on the twins and vikings.... you're talking to the wrong crowd😂

[@_officialmichaelaa]

It’s crazy this was recommended to me during what’s going on in Minneapolis right now

[@sethb9545]

Well after this disaster I have seen Iowa and Missouri doing extensive work on their bridges and even tearing out old ones and replacing them with knew ones. At least these are 2 states that gotten the message !!!!

[@kaberus7565]

Chicago too. My bus route has been messed up because they've been replacing old bridges over the river.

[@bounzl4200]

Do you even know what grammar is? “At least these are 2 states that gotten the message” bruh

[@sethb9545]

@@bounzl4200 How about you shut your pie hole and mind your own business YBN Boundass

[@shinymosi5832]

Wow I remember this. My dad was driving home in rush hour after work when it happened. I was too young to understand but my mom was frantic cause he took that bridge every day. When my dad got home he was in shock. He said he heard a voice in his head to take a different route home that day while he was driving and instinctively took an exit before the bridge and then heard about the collapse over the radio a few minutes later...... he would have been on that bridge no doubt.

[@gal6944]

Exactly like the Genoa bride in Italy a couple years ago except the people in Italy fell more than 100 meters into a town that was below and +60 people killed

[@areyoutheregoditsmedave]

That’s terrible bro.

[@iammotley9212]

I remember seeing that on the news, I felt so sad for everyone involved.

[@raywhittaker4813]

I was 6 when this happened. I remember being at my grandparents and seeing this on tv. From that moment on even 12 years later as a 20 year old,driving on bridges still gives me pretty bad anxiety

[@worldpeac3]

Minnesotan here and same!

[@evano3522]

My dad biked under that bridge about 20 minutes before this happened

[@dwjoseph59]

Evan Orjala you're dad's a lucky man

[@sillyh02]

David Joseph i was on that bridge right before it collapsded

[@reathruei2168]

donny_ islit same my mom told me we were a couple minutes to death

[@johnwhitfield8150]

Hows he going to bike under that bridge when the bridge is over a river , last time I checked you can’t bike over a river

[@4forevergirl4]

There’s a bike/running trail under the bridge. I’ve been on it.

[@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI]

I wish people had access to that map at 8:37

[@randbarrett8706]

In light of the crack found in the Arkansas - Tennessee bridge, it’s clear that our political system is not functional enough to perform even basic functions such as infrastructure maintenance

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

My brother goes over the bridge every day coming home from work. I remember when we heard about it, everyone was terrified and was headed for the phone to call my brother to see if he’s all right.

[@cgass0109]

The photo of the blonde woman laying next to the person with... obvious, MULTIPLE BROKEN ankle bones has me shook. I can't imagine how much pain that person is in at that moment.

[@sambrownsings]

I remember my neighbor running over and telling us the news, I was like 14 at that time. Surreal stuff, no one expects a bridge like that to collapse

[@AquarianSeraph]

People ask why I'm so scared of any bridge.. THIS IS WHY dang it >:/

[@stevejette2329]

As an ironworker, local 512, Mpls -St Paul, in 1975 we were working on the Hennepin bridge. We discovered a giant rock block support was almost hollow with decay. Called city engineers and shut it down ASAP on a busy summer afternoon.

[@piratetape]

You probably saved lives.

[@Xaturn6666]

Me and my family were about 90 feet away from it when it happened. We still dont cross that bridge. My moms scared to death about it

[@InfamousCrimeLocations]

You have better odds winning the lotto than the same bridge collapsing again.

[@jamessanders6223]

Me and my mom drove under the bridge 2 HOURS before it collapsed. I remember driving over the bridge when I was a little boy, and when it collapsed.

[@WyvernApalis]

It appears that in the US, whenever there's a threat that costs money to fix and will cause significant negative consequences if ignored, it's always ignored. Be it public health care, educational costs, road safety, gun safety, and many more. Hooray for the "free market".

[@phglitch]

I feel like I’m learning so much from this channel

[@AsherGaudreau]

we almost went on that bridge that day to go to a twins game with a group but we didnt. There was a school bus on that bridge and that what made my mom so worried that she had to come all the way to the stadium just to see if i was alright

[@linmcc8342]

Keep the military. Stop giving trillions of dollars to foreign countries and illegals.

[@alicianwinter]

I remember when this happened. My father was coming home from work that day and went over the bridge only moments before it’s collapse.. thank god he wasn’t hurt💗 and rip to those who lost their lives 😞🙏🏼

[@OJGLOVE]

I’m glad he survived that fall but was I the only one curious how his mom recognized him by his feet

[@BiblePsychology68]

We usually recognize people by their face. Based on the injuries he stated to his face and head he would have been swollen and black and blue from his injuries, not recognizable. It is not unusual for a family member to have to identify someone based on a body part or tattoo.

[@OJGLOVE]

I understand that I'm just curious did she know her sons feet that good or did he have like a foot tat

[@jimcaale1900]

I was on i35 that, less than. Collapsed when I was on the Washington exit.

[@hellobot67]

This is why I have a glass window breaker and a seat belt cutter

[@MA-mh1vs]

Good to have but the trama from that type of fall may leave you unable to use it if you hit anything but water.

[@jaimeojeda4780]

My father drove on that bridge 2-3 hours before the bridge collapsed. I was only a year old at the time. Thinking what would of happened if my dad somehow was on the bridge at that time makes me feel strange. I always say bye to my parents because you never know what's gonna happen.

[@lre8515]

i drive over that bridge all the time now, i always get nervous crossing it becuase of this

[@KyleRyanFilm]

If you have to "wait for the investigation" of a collapsed bridge, it's safe to say it was in disrepair.

[@alicelu5691]

some bridges just don’t work...

[@Yuli2013]

I live in Minnesota. This is about five minutes from my house. I remember calling my family super scared making sure everyone was okay?

[@voodoodoll7774]

Every time i cross a bridge, I fear this very scenario happening. I can't imagine what all of those people went through. Absolutely horrifying 😨 rip to those who didn't make it ❤

[@tammylopez8502]

The company my ex husband works for was doing construction on this bridge at the time. He was supposed to work on it this day but was switched to the airport instead.. Thank God for this!! I feel sorry for him co-workers who were badly hurt or killed from this collapse!!

[@dknowles60]

why who in that company oked 400 tons of construction to be parked on that bridge. 400 ton is the weight of 2 diesel locomotives. i can bring down any road bridge in the us by parking 400 tons of diesel locomotives on it