02/08/2007 12:49 am
That's the tail water of the Lower St. Anthony Falls lock.
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02/08/2007 12:50 am
Today is sadly the day of tragic events...
Local TV news is reprting at least a half dozen deceased...and severe storms moving in...
Tragic day indeed...
02/08/2007 11:55 am
Eerily reminiscent of 40 years ago when the news came that the RIVER QUEEN (ex- CAPE GIRARDEAU / GORDON C. GREENE) sank at St. Louis -- and less than two weeks later the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsed into the Ohio with bumper to bumper traffic stopped upon it and many lives lost. The DQ had passed under the bridge en route to Pittsburgh for drydocking at Dravo just several days prior to the collapse. Tragic times for steamboats and bridges. My thoughts and prayers are with all the people affected by this disaster in Minneapolis.