No one died. Hardly anyone was hurt. That's the good news. In Oakland today a freeway collapsed. If you have ever driven across the Oakland Bay Bridge, you know that the maze of freeways coming into Oakland is large and complicated and carries a huge amount of traffic. A collapse of a freeway, there, is going to cause serious problems for months to come. More than a quarter million people will be affected daily.
How it happened was quite simple. A tanker truck carrying a load of gasoline crashed into an abutment. Normally this would not have led to catastrophe, but the fuel ignited. The heat of the fire melted the girders and rivets that composed the bridge, causing it's collapse.
As mentioned previously, a number of people think that the WTC Tower collapses on 9/11 were the result of an inside job. Not too long ago, Rosie O'Donnell said, on "The View", that 9/11 was the first time in history that fire had melted steel implying that only explosives could have brought the buildings down. Today's accident must come as something of a shock to her, marking the second time in history that fire has melted steel... to the extent that she understands history, anyway.
Maybe Roseanne Barr has better knowledge of history.
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