on my way out of the twin cities on thursday our plane banked directly over downtown minneapolis and i got a first hand glimpse of the i-35 bridge that had collapsed. surreal is probably the best description, overused as it may be. you could see the river where the bridge had always been and where every one just assumed it would always be. when i think of the hundreds and hundreds of times, that not only i, but pretty much everyone i know have been over that bridge it's just incredible to realize that it could have been any one of us on it when it collapsed. i sent a text message to jeff due to the clogged cell circuits and he said he had been on the bridge an hour earlier. one of my friends wives took an alternate route to the twins game that night that would have put her on the bridge at roughly the time it went down. nearly everybody i know has a story. it's amazing that there weren't anymore fatalities than there appear to have been although there are still several missing at this point. there are talks about rebuilding soon with a target completion date of late next year.
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