“On the 1st of August, 2007, the I-35 West Mississippi River Bridge, one of the busiest bridges in Minneapolis, collapsed…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:43 – Background
02:59 – The I-35W Bridge Failure
07:07 – The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory
► “The Plan’s Working” by Cooper Cannell
SOURCES:
► “Collapse of I-35W Highway Bridge” by the National Transportation Safety Board, published August 2007. Link: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAR0803.pdf.
► “I-35W Bridge Collapse and Response” by the US Fire Administration, published August 2007. Link: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr_166.pdf.
► “10 Years After Bridge Collapse, America Is Still Crumbling” by David Schaper, published by NPR, August 2017. Link: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540669701/10-years-after-bridge-collapse-america-is-still-crumbling.
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I was in MSP that night. My figure skating friends and I used that bridge to get to Augsburg College and their ice time. It was a long night of phone calls and emails and making sure my friends were safe.
Sadly this is the MO to fix/replace bridges in the USA. Why budget for it when the FED will just print more money when it collapses.
Why did I think this was the “suicide is badass” bridge from its always sunny
I was sitting out behind my college having a smoke break when we heard the bridge collapsed. I was worried about my dad, but he didn't take 35W home.
A decade later and Memphis almost became a victim with i40 bridge.
I live in Minneapolis and would go on that bridge almost daily, including the day it collapsed. A little chilling to think I was just 5 minutes from being part of that disaster
80 billion for war in Ukraine..
3 trillion for Afghanistan…
Who knows what the illegal war with Iraq costs…
Syria… Palestine, Venezuela, Yemen, Colombia, South Africa, Libya,.. 30 plus trillion dollar deficit and rising by the second. How can we afford a government when we can't afford a country…
I live in a suburb of Minneapolis, and I remember when this happened. Absolutely crazy. I went to see the wreckage a while after, and also went to see the new bridge that was being built later on. The new bridge is really pretty, as is the memorial. Hopefully this one doesn’t collapse. 👀
Structure and Foundation inspectors: hey this thing is in trouble, pls fix it asap!
The damned contractor/designer: NO 😀
Let’s hope the replacement remains structurally sound 🤞
The money was blocked in congress over the decades by the Republican Party, in particular, Mitch McConnell.
It's horrifying to think we can just be going about our day and WHAM! Just falling through the air. RIP to those who didn't make it.
I love this channel. Although every time I start a new video, I sort of forgot about the curiousity that all videos I’ve seen so far, are about things collapsing, while the voice over is unable to pronounce exactly that word: collapse (‘klapse’). :-O
💥💥 funny thing that you say that America doesn't have the funds to replace all these Bridges considering that the United States spends $801 billion dollars on military defense weapons and they spend 6.6 trillion dollars on NASA.
I think the proper term is the United States don't care about fixing any of these other Bridges around the country that are hazardous.
This happened while I was on a road trip in another part of the country with my grandma who is terrified of bridges to begin with. It was on the news constantly so there was no avoiding it and as you can imagine, it freaked my grandma out even more about all bridges. Every time we had to go over one, she would close her eyes, plug her ears, and just say “bridge, bridge, bridge, bridge” the entire time we crossed… I was only like 9 at the time, but I will never forget it. It made my mom, who was driving, very annoyed, especially because there were a lot of bridges we had to cross on this trip.
I’ve driven over the old bridge many times. Thankfully, I wasn’t working in Minneapolis when the bridge failed.
All safety rules are written in blood
My extended family all live in St. Paul. One cousin passed over the bridge about 30 minutes before collapse while another would have been on the bridge several minutes later. It's also a bridge I drove over many times.
260 tons of building material placed on the bridge – WHO in their right mind thought that was a good idea?
No money to repair bridges but we have $88 billion for Ukraine!
American lives don't matter!
“You have to pay $1,000 for repairs to save possibly thousands of lives”
Government: “Sorry i can’t do that right now, I’m broke”
All hard working tax payers money goes to other issues and well you know. People that work use bridges to get to where they need to go in order to sustain their lives. That’s truly why infrastructure is not fixed. But we as workers sure pay tolls for repairs and replacing infrastructure. Crazy world in order to buy votes.
It is not a war, therefore, CITIZENS, not 'civilians'.
I watched a documentary a few years ago and they said like 90% of the US bridges are like graded a D to a F which are way over due and could fall at any time!
The bridge that fell in Virginia the one in the mothman movie was built by the same people that my home town bridge like back in the 20s or 30s But they have done a bunch of upgrades on it over the years! It was built for model Ts and small cars and big truck and trailers go across it all the time! Its pretty Fricky!
Another disaster allowed to happen because of a corrupt government full of Democrats.