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Major bridge collapse

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They found another set of remains today.

"The list of confirmed missing included Christine Sacorafas, 45, of White Bear Lake; Vera Peck, 50, and her son Richard Chit, 20, both of Bloomington; Greg Jolstad, 45, of Mora; and Scott Sathers, 29, of Maple Grove.

About 100 people were injured in the collapse, but only eight remained hospitalized, their conditions ranging from serious to good. Hennepin County Medical Center released one patient and upgraded another from serious to satisfactory condition, a spokeswoman said on Sunday."
 
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China had a brand new bridge collapse as they were removing the scaffoilding and it killed 22-28 of the workers. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/13/china.bridge.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

They even knew of our bridge collpase:

"The newspaper report quoted Xiao Rucheng, secretary general of China's Institute of Bridge and Structural Engineering, as saying that China should "learn a lesson from the Mississippi bridge and accelerate the inspection of unsafe bridges," referring to the August 1 collapse of the bridge in Minnesota that killed at least nine people."
 
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One of our local news stations has been scouring inspection reports from the state's transportation dept and they found one from last year list 8 bridges that need to be replaced as soon as 2009--the one that collapsed was on the list: http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_226213539.html
 
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"The remains were identified as Scott Sathers, 30, of Maple Grove, the 12th person confirmed dead. The discovery means 45-year-old Greg Jolstad of Mora is the last known person to be missing from the Aug. 1 collapse."

found at http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_231121237.html

And it was rainging yesterday and now today as well that would make the river level higher and faster.
 
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Yet another thunderstorm just passed through--we're in our monsoon season. This one was so severe the sirens went off.
:( May God be with and protect you and yours, Conklin. Including your Squirrels!
 
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It has been raining, drizzling almost every day here for the past two weeks or so.

The squirrels will be fine--there are other people feeding them too.
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They still haven't found that last guy who is missing since the bridge went down. The blame game is kicking in now.
 
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It has been raining, drizzling almost every day here for the past two weeks or so.

The squirrels will be fine--there are other people feeding them too.
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They still haven't found that last guy who is missing since the bridge went down. The blame game is kicking in now.
I thought I heard everyone is accounted for?
 
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