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Aug. 2nd, 2007 04:45 pmhttp://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=261140
It's been surreal, looking at disaster footage of a bridge just down the road. I see it, I see the landmarks and familar houses and billboards and it registers that I know that place, but I can't wrap my head around the idea that it really fell. I feel like if I were to hop in the car and drive down there that everything would be normal and busy and just fine.
We drove on it Saturday. Before we moved, that was a stretch of my commute. It's the commuting route of half my soon to be ex co-workers-- the only scare on that front was "L" (who commutes that way) didn't show up for work this morning; no answer on cell or home; wife wasn't at her job. Turns out they went out, crashed at a friend's place, woke up late, had a mess of a time getting to work because of TRAFFIC. Next time plz to be answering your cell/checking your messages, thx.
Considering we have two freeways already closed for major road construction, the verb "commuting" is going to be dropped in favor of "going way the fuck out of my way, mostly on side streets." That bridge was one the major routes in/out of Minneapolis, and pretty much the only speedy way to get in from North/Northeast. Basically, when I35 heads into the Twin Cites, the interstate splits. 35e goes through St. Paul; 35w goes through Minneapolis. A not-really-correct-at-all-but-you-get-the-idea visual is this: ---< >---. Only it runs N/S, not E/W as my mad skillz have depicted.
Thank Heavens for all that road work, though! Lanes around that area had been closed all summer, and people had been finding alternate routes. That's what kept the car count so low for a rush hour.
It's been surreal, looking at disaster footage of a bridge just down the road. I see it, I see the landmarks and familar houses and billboards and it registers that I know that place, but I can't wrap my head around the idea that it really fell. I feel like if I were to hop in the car and drive down there that everything would be normal and busy and just fine.
We drove on it Saturday. Before we moved, that was a stretch of my commute. It's the commuting route of half my soon to be ex co-workers-- the only scare on that front was "L" (who commutes that way) didn't show up for work this morning; no answer on cell or home; wife wasn't at her job. Turns out they went out, crashed at a friend's place, woke up late, had a mess of a time getting to work because of TRAFFIC. Next time plz to be answering your cell/checking your messages, thx.
Considering we have two freeways already closed for major road construction, the verb "commuting" is going to be dropped in favor of "going way the fuck out of my way, mostly on side streets." That bridge was one the major routes in/out of Minneapolis, and pretty much the only speedy way to get in from North/Northeast. Basically, when I35 heads into the Twin Cites, the interstate splits. 35e goes through St. Paul; 35w goes through Minneapolis. A not-really-correct-at-all-but-you-get-the-idea visual is this: ---< >---. Only it runs N/S, not E/W as my mad skillz have depicted.
Thank Heavens for all that road work, though! Lanes around that area had been closed all summer, and people had been finding alternate routes. That's what kept the car count so low for a rush hour.
