Who needs terrorists when we've got an entire nation full of aging infrastructure?
Wow.
It's just human nature to pay a little more attention when something goes wrong in a place where one has been, or at least can relate to. People are selfish that way, even when we don't mean anything bad by it. I've only crossed the bridge that went in to the Mississippi a few times in my life, all just a month or so ago, and I know that and the fact that I drive over its southern cousins hundreds of times a year is what sent me looking at the Star-Tribune's photos even though I usually avoid the grief-porn like the plague it is. A highway bridge that goes crashing down is scary and shocking and man, that could be me.
But honestly, thank goodness Kristy's Hanna is safe, and thoughts and prayers to those in Minnesota still waiting to hear, and especially to those who loved those who were just driving along, trusting their tax dollars to be hard at work just a little while longer.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Bridge
Posted by Allison at 9:27 PM
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My family derives great pleasure from my irrational fear of bridges. Not any more.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Just remember that only one major bridge collapses in this country every quarter-century or so. The odds of you being on it at the time are about 1 in 45 trillion.
I'd roll the dice and cross that next bridge if I were you. But only when you come to it.
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