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Aug. 1st, 2007 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonAnd now, we've got a big storm front moving in; I can smell ozone and rain, and the light is that weird luminous yellow-green of impending deluge. Just what the rescue people at the scene need.
I just -- the impulse is to keep waving my hands around and saying You don't understand, I go over that bridge ALL THE TIME. I was driving over it Monday evening! it's only a mile from my house! This is in my neighborhood! How can this be happening?? So so weird, to have one's neighborhood bridge, the environs of one's daily life, on the national news.
So far the fatality reports are surprisingly low, so I'm trying to be hopeful. But I keep thinking of all the people I know at the U who commute over that bridge, whose schedules would very possibly have taken them there at that moment.
I just -- the impulse is to keep waving my hands around and saying You don't understand, I go over that bridge ALL THE TIME. I was driving over it Monday evening! it's only a mile from my house! This is in my neighborhood! How can this be happening?? So so weird, to have one's neighborhood bridge, the environs of one's daily life, on the national news.
So far the fatality reports are surprisingly low, so I'm trying to be hopeful. But I keep thinking of all the people I know at the U who commute over that bridge, whose schedules would very possibly have taken them there at that moment.
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:52 am (UTC)It's surreal to see the coverage on the BBC's website, too.
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Date: 2007-08-02 01:56 am (UTC)Tomorrow, do ONE thing to celebrate being hale and safe.
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:04 am (UTC)>.O
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:22 am (UTC)*Totally* grok. I remember when the Murrah Building in OKC was bombed; I felt, very intensely, like someone had broken into my home. Gah.
And then the big tornado in 1999; it completely destroyed several neighborhoods that were part of my daily life. o.O
Currently waiting to hear from some friends who live in Minnetonka. They're probably fine, but I'm not going to be completely at ease until I hear from them.
Very happy that you're okay.
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:57 am (UTC)::clings to you::
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Date: 2007-08-02 08:20 am (UTC)*runs off to e-mail Minneapolis friends*
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