We’re going to be moving to downtown Minneapolis in about a month & a half, which means that a huge cleaning and packing project is ongoing in the Crissman household. It’s a good opportunity to try and get organized, but it’s also very easy to get sidetracked.
Along the way, I’m finding a lot of old writings and artwork that I had nearly forgotten about. I think I’m going to have to create some pages online to upload some of these things; not sure yet whether I’ll do that on this site or some other.
We’re very excited to be moving; almost our entire lives have moved downtown over the last few years, so it will be a convenient place to set up shop. We’ll be in the Warehouse District, and yes… if you click on the map and go south-east about a mile or two, you’ll the 35W bridge which collapsed yesterday evening. As you might surmise, my wife and I were not on it, though we were both downtown. I think most of the people around here will be thinking about how close they could have been to being on that bridge, at that time, for some time.
Glad to hear you weren’t on the bridge. It hadn’t occurred to me you live in that area until your post.
Yep… it’s very surreal. It’s a horrible accident, but I’m already dreading the continued news coverage of the event — if only because they keep repeating the same few facts and statistics ad nauseum.
I was in my calculus class that night, and as we watched the live footage during a class break, my instructor simply said, “There are some engineers in really big trouble right now.” Of course, it looks to be somewhat more complicated than that, and it’s highly unlikely that the calculations of any single person led to that night’s disaster….
But like hundreds of thousands of others, in normal circumstances we took that bridge pretty much every weekday, usually right about that time.