As of about an hour ago, the bridge in this link no longer exists. The river below is the Mississippi. When it fell, around 2-3 dozen bridge workers and probably fifty cars were on it.
Nothing to do with intelligence, but then not everything should.
I will not be able to update this with the frequency or fervor that Captain’s Quarters, Power Line or even Fraters Libertas can, so hit them for the latest.
Update 1: Lots of folks checking in for HoTS health and welfare - many thanks.
To get an idea of the impact of this event - beyond the tragic loss of life - is imagining taking one of the major thoroughfares feeding your metro area out of commission. For a place like DC, imagine the Clara Barton falling into the Potomac. Now imagine not being able to use that thoroughfare for 3, 4, 6 months.
No indications of terrorism, or at least explosions. MSP has and lots of apartments and businesses facing the river and bridge, so you’d hear right off if there were “booms” preceding the event. I am not a structural engineer, but wreckage I can see from the tube looks like a collapse (e.g. twisted, bent), not beams that are cut or shredded.
Road construction was taking place; re-vamping the de-icing system and resurfacing the concrete deck. Bridge is about 40 years old.
