I was startled awake moments ago by the vibration of my cell phone in my pocket. I must’ve dozed off watching TV after eating dinner. It was my Dad checking to make sure I was OK. He said, “turn on the news.” To my amazement, I learned that 35W had collapsed over the Mississippi River!

Now the scary part. I drive over that bridge every day on my way too and from work. Most days, I leave work between 5 - 5:30PM and that would likely put me directly on that bridge at 6:05PM when it collapsed. Luckily, today I was working from home and was not out on the road.

I have a feeling that the reason the bridge collapsed was due to the construction that was happening on it. There have been workers on the bridge for several weeks. Almost every day I drove over it, there had been jack hammers there and yesterday it looked as if they were ready to start laying fresh concrete back down over it soon.

I have just heard on MSNBC that there has been 1 fatality. This is truly tragic. It’s the closest I’ve ever been to a tragedy of this magnitude.