I Don't Know What to Say.
Thursday, August 02, 2007Wow. I really don't know what to say. I do know that even with the crappy luck I've had with commutes and my car, that I really don't think I will ever earnestly complain ever again.
In case you haven't heard somehow, a huge bridge here in the Twin Cities collapsed while full of rush hour traffic. CNN reports on it here.
The bridge is for Interstate 35W crossing the Mississippi River. It collapsed at about 6:05 pm and had at minimum about 60 cars on it. This was THE major North/South highway artery through Minneapolis. They say upwards of 100,000 cars crossed that bridge daily. I know I've crossed that bridge countless numbers of times. I used to cross it at least twice daily when I was living downtown and going to the University of Minnesota.
Luckily, no one close to me was involved with the disaster. As far as I know yet, I don't personally know anyone involved. My best possible wishes do go out to anyone who does.
I'm still just... in awe.
posted by Chief Slacker @ 9:28 AM,
3 Comments:
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At Fri Aug 03, 12:36:00 AM,
Paramedic621 said...
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I worked that for about 23 hours and it was all chaos. It was nuts and i hope no one close to you is involved.
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At Fri Aug 03, 11:13:00 AM,
Chief Slacker said...
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Luckily, no one I know was. Considering how much I've used taht bridge I'm quite thankful.
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At Sun Aug 05, 05:27:00 AM,
Porq said...
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Chief,
I was really worried about you and that bridge thing. Hey, ya scared the ---- out of me.
Haven't been around because of various hard drive troubles and I lost all my addresses, favorites, etc. So when this bridge thing happened, I thought about your safety and wondered how to find out if you're ok... HMMMM????
GOOGLE!!! I did a google on chief slacker and found your site again.
MIRABILE DICTU!!!
Now I'll read up on what happened since your last job.
OINK
P.S. the basement is still NOT cleaned out!!