Credit where due
This may be poorly timed, but I want to take a minute to praise the people behind the Minneapolis preparedness plans.
I picked up the story at about 6:50, and by that time, the police were on site in force, rescue crews were setting up and going into action, divers in the water, every ambulance in the system was there or en route, and all of the hospitals were mobilized amd prepared for mass casualty response. All in about 45 minutes.
This was a city facing an immediate unknown that swung into action on very good response plan. Lives may well be saved by this, so, credit to those involved.
I picked up the story at about 6:50, and by that time, the police were on site in force, rescue crews were setting up and going into action, divers in the water, every ambulance in the system was there or en route, and all of the hospitals were mobilized amd prepared for mass casualty response. All in about 45 minutes.
This was a city facing an immediate unknown that swung into action on very good response plan. Lives may well be saved by this, so, credit to those involved.
posted by mikevotes at
9:10 PM
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Not so much credit to the Minnesota politicians who knew the bridge was "structurally deficient" as of 2005 It was rated 4 out of 9 for structural conditions with 9 being the highest score and 0 being the lowest. Clearly somebody knew the bridge could collapse but chose not to do much about it.
I wonder if we had taken the $1 trillion we spent on the iraq war and spent it rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure in the U.S. if maybe the Minnesota collapse could have been avoided.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 6:45 AM
I'll certainly agree with all of that.
I really haven't been following that closely, I was just amazed that when I kicked it on 45 minutes later, they had so much, and so many people in place.
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mikevotes, at 7:08 AM
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