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Old 08-04-2007, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jon1856 View Post
Minnesota officials were warned as early as 1990 that the bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River was "structurally deficient," yet they relied on patchwork repairs and stepped-up inspections that unraveled amid a thunderous plunge of concrete and automobiles.
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This is a complete misrepresentation of what those words mean to actual civil engineers.

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