Thursday, August 2, 2007

Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis

When we traveled to Canada to meet our friend whose family has a camp on an island in the French river, we had a wonderful time. On the way home we crossed that very bridge that collapsed yesterday. Makes you wonder. Several years ago we had taken our youngest daughter to see the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and it was magnificent. Later as we left the city we were in bumper to bumper traffic with many long pauses in traffic when we were stationary over a curved bridge that probably went over another freeway when we noticed it shaking even though the traffic was at a standstill. I finally asked my two ladies to get out and to walk off the bridge and I would pick them up if/when I got off of it. They decided not to do this and finally we got going again and were very glad to be off of that shaking bridge. Sure makes you wonder as we prepare to travel full time about the infrastructure of our roadways. Our hearts go out to those injured and to the families of those lost.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow. That is scary to think about. I'm glad you made it over safely.