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.

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.

* The collapse of the multi-span I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on August 1, 2007

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.

One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

Granville is also the location of the Granville railway disaster, which occurred on 18 January 1977 when a commuter train derailed just before the Bold Street overpass and hit the staunchion, causing the bridge to collapse.

Significant investigations conducted by the NTSB in all modes of transportation in recent years include the collapse of the I-35 highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; the collision between two transit trains in Washington, D. C .; the pipeline explosion that destroyed much of a neighborhood in San Bruno, California ; the sinking of an amphibious vessel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the crash of a regional airliner near Buffalo, New York.

Several large infrastructure projects, including the rebuilding of the bridge connecting Koror and Babeldaob Islands after its collapse in 1996 and the construction of a highway around the rim of Babeldaob, boosted activity at the end of 1990s.

A few ounces of plastique, properly placed, could bring down a bridge, cave in a mine shaft, or collapse the roof of a railroad tunnel.

There had been many accidents when cast iron beams collapsed suddenly, such as the Dee bridge disaster of May 1847 and later failures such as the Wooton bridge collapse and the Bull bridge accident of 1860.

The bridge collapse suggests that the artist has been influenced by Blind Harry's account.

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

Heraclius could not attack Ctesiphon itself because the Nahrawan Canal was blocked due to the collapse of a bridge leading over it.

It was already known that the river had partially undermined one of the bridge piers and the lahar finished the job, causing the bridge to collapse.

On November 7, 1972, the ship African Neptune struck the bridge, causing parts of the bridge to collapse, taking cars with it.

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

As the engineer, Thomas Bouch was blamed for the collapse of the Tay bridge, his assistant Charles Meik, having merely left an impression that he " was aptly named ", implying that he had no great influence over the design and construction.

It was the cause of the collapse of the Mianus river bridge in 1983, when the bearings rusted internally and pushed one corner of the road slab off its support.

The timber bridge quickly succumbed to marine wood worm and began to progressively collapse.

The barge blocked the flow of floodwaters under the bridge and there were real fears that the bridge would collapse.

* 1861 – Wootton bridge collapse ; 2 killed

The Dee bridge after its collapse