MPLS Bridge

What a scary, sad and tragic event yesterday's bridge collapse was. The pictures are horrific... cars smashed by large pieces of cement and metal. Cars floating in the river. The Tastee bread truck in flames... next to the school bus w/ 60+ children inside. The rescue divers risking their own lives searching the rushing Mississippi for survivors. The weeping victims, some covered in blood, some on guerny's being carried into the hospitals... I even saw a pregnant woman being carried in. Can you imagine being that car that is still in one piece sitting at a 45 degree angle because the driver stopped just in time... threw the parking break on and was able to get out and run up the bent concrete. I sat on the couch and cried last night. For some time I was convinced that it was a terrorist attack of some sort. Apparently I am wrong. Seems that this bridge was built w/ no cement posts buried into the river... it was just built w/ posts on each end and the entire middle was built w/ a metal base to support it. Hmmmm...

This horrible accident really makes me think about all my friends and family and how much I love them. And how much I have to tell them I love them... and often. As my mother-in-law put it today, we are so not in control of our lives. You just never know when your time will come. Now that I have E, it makes me so sad... I worry SO much more about everything!! This freak accident only adds to my worries! I hate worrying. It sucks.

Enough of the depressing news. 2 happier things... all those kids got off the bus and to their families ok and they have retracted the 7 dead (in some papers I read 9) to only 4. Go figure that one??!! I don't really get it... although we can all assume there are many more deceased that have not been recovered yet. :(

K