The doubleheader was necessitated after an August 2 game vs. Kansas City was postponed one day after the I-35W Bridge collapse in downtown Minneapolis.

Security camera images show the I-35W collapse in animation, looking north.

Within days after the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Oberstar introduced and succeeded in passing legislation to appropriate $ 250 million to the Minnesota Department of Transportation to quickly build a replacement bridge.

This failure occurred less than 18 months after URS Corporation settled for $ 52. 4 million in response to lawsuits brought by victims of the Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse.

News of the work was prompted by the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

The collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minnesota on August 1, 2007 has renewed concerns about the bridge's structural integrity.

Following the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W arch-truss bridge on August 1, 2007, the Washington State Department of Transportation was directed to perform inspections of all steel cantilever bridges in the state that used gusset plates in their design, including the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

After the August 1, 2007 collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kanjorski said he believed the $ 250, 000, 000 bill passed by Congress to rebuild the bridge was a ripoff because it exceeded the normal $ 100, 000, 000 limit for emergency relief projects.

In August 2007, after the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Rybak asked Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota state officials to implement its replacement, ensuring that the new bridge would be capable of handling mass transit.

Cloud was closed on March 20, 2008, after bent gusset plates were found in an inspection ; similar to gusset plates that caused the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis to collapse on August 1, 2007.

As part of the traffic restoration project following the I-35W bridge collapse a portion of I-94 between I-35W on MN 280 was restriped from three standard 12-foot lanes and a bus shoulder to four 11-foot lanes.

During the days immediately following the I-35W bridge collapse, the 10th Avenue Bridge was closed to traffic, then later reopened ; it was one of the most used locations from which to view the wreckage and the recovery efforts.

Molnau was removed in the aftermath of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse.

Brewer in action at the site of the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge.

Following the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August 2007, Kentucky officials ( including Governor Ernie Fletcher ), sought to reassure motorists that Kentucky's bridges are safe by conducting a special safety review of all long-span bridges at that time.

However, the Union Bank failed, causing the collapse of a number of Mississippi banks and leaving the state with a five million dollar debt.

He was responsible for the Mississippi Bubble and a chaotic economic collapse in France ; he died in Venice ;

Furthermore, the Confederacy was split in two by a campaign based on the Mississippi River, and a consensus has now been established that this Southern defeat was at least as important in the final collapse of the Rebellion as the land battles in the East that had so long attracted both public and historians ' attention.

After the Mississippi River Bridge collapse of August 1, 2007 this is one of the bridges WSDOT is inspecting as it is a similar design.

The book combines Keel's account of his investigation into alleged sightings of a large, winged creature called Mothman in the vicinity of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, during 1966 and 1967 with his own theories about UFOs and various supernatural phenomena, ultimately connecting them to the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River.

In November 1934, the Texas Legislature authorized the formation of the Lower Colorado River Authority to complete Buchanan Dam, where construction had been idled in 1932 following the financial collapse and bankruptcy of the Samuel Insull-controlled public utility holding company.

In the late 1960s, Gallipolis gained notoriety for the collapse of the Silver Bridge, which spanned the Ohio River from Gallipolis to Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The town is located along the Guyandotte River at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, which was the site of the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood following a dam collapse.

During the 1930s many businesses closed, the railroad became less important and, finally, in 1951, a flood destroyed much of the town and caused the roadway bridge over the Kansas River to collapse isolating the town from surrounding communities.

The widespread collapse in Atlantic salmon stocks suggests that this is not solely a local problem in the River Tay.

The Turkic speaking Yugurs are considered to be the descendants of a group of Uyghurs who fled from Mongolia southwards to Gānsù, after the collapse of the Uyghur Empire in 840 AD, and soon established there a prosperous Ganzhou Kingdom ( 870-1036 AD ) with capital near present Zhangye city on the foots of Nan Shan Mountains in the valley of the Ejin River ( Black River ).

A part of the harbour wall suffered a partial collapse in the late summer of 2008 due to flooding of the River Coquet.

* April 12-The Moose River Gold Mines collapse

After the collapse of the Roman Provincial Government, the core of this area retained territorial identity until the Battle of Deorham in 577, ( now largely regarded as a dubious event ) when the Saxons made advances as far as the River Severn.

The collapse of the forestry industry in the first decade of the 2000s not only impacted Wawa, but the neighbouring communities of Dubreuilville and White River.

The Simjurids enjoyed control of Khorasan south of the Oxus River ( Amu Darya ) but were hard-pressed by a third great Iranian dynasty, the Buwayhids, and were unable to survive the collapse of the Samanids and the rise of the Ghaznavids.

The Millpond Dam in North Billerica is just one of many blockages that caused the alewife population to collapse on the Concord River.

No one was less popular in Ohio than William Vanderbilt since the December 29, 1876 collapse of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway's Ashtabula River trestle, where 64 people had been injured and 92 were killed or died later from injuries.

The Arayat amphitheatre is said to have been caused by the summit's collapse on the western side but a much deeper crater is present on the eastern side, it was said that the mountain was once a volcanic island, until eruptions covered the surrounding area with soil, eruptions were said to be the possible cause of a theorized re-route of Pampanga River which is said to have once passed on the western side rather than eastern side where it currently moves.

The collapse of the lake's west dam drained the lake into the Salt River, exposing debris and trash under the area that the lake used to occupy.

* 1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.

* 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1, 400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse.

* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.

* May 30 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people.

* July 21 – Eleven support towers on Kinzua Bridge collapse after being hit by an F-1 tornado.

The dramatically visible, rhythmic twisting that resulted in the 1940 collapse of " Galloping Gertie ," the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, has sometimes been characterized in physics textbooks as a classical example of resonance.

Ammann wrote two reports about bridge collapses, the collapse of the Quebec Bridge and the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge ( Galloping Gertie ).

On 26 June 2007, rising flood water caused Burway Bridge in Ludlow to collapse, severing a gas main and causing 20 homes in nearby Corve Street to be evacuated.

File: London Bridge, Victoria. jpg | London Arch ( formerly known as London Bridge before collapse of land section )

One famous example of flutter phenomena is the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

On July 4, 1898, the community witnessed its greatest disaster: the collapse of the Main Street Bridge.

From 1879 until its collapse in 1960 the Severn Railway Bridge also carried trains across the Severn from Sharpness to Lydney.

Point Pleasant was widely noted for the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, which killed 46 people.

With Sir John Fowler, he designed and engineered the Forth Bridge after the Tay bridge collapse.

London Bridge before collapse

London Bridge in 1985 – prior to its collapse

Prior to the collapse, the arch was known as London Bridge because of its similarity to its namesake.

A. J. Cronin's first novel, Hatter's Castle ( 1931 ), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse.

Aruba's Aruba Natural Bridge | Natural Bridge in 2005, before its subsequent collapse due to coastal erosion.