Wednesday, August 1, 2007

"35W is no more"

Shortly after I signed onto AIM earlier this evening, Jimmy IM'ed me to tell me to turn on the news. Being a n00b at televisions in general, since I don't really watch tv, I said that wouldn't be plausible at the moment. Eventually, he told me the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis had literally collapsed (and I was like "Holy. Shit."). A few minutes later, it became "breaking news" on cnn.com. I do remember seeing that section of I-35W closed for large-scale construction of some sort when I went home earlier this summer, and apparently it was still under construction as of today. Quite freaky, having a bridge suddenly go out like that.

1 comment:

Frank said...

Hmm, I stayed very close to that bridge when I was in Minnesota for Quizbowl.