Praying and Praising GOD
Still can't believe the bridge collapsed. I'm on that bridge all the time. And have been for as long as I can remember. Right now I'm just praising GOD that none of my family or friends were on the bridge. My Diana's (my bosom friend) sister-in-law was on the bridge, but she's ok. So glad I didn't go to the Twins game last night. I could've been right there. It's just eerie. It was so hard to watch it all over the tv last night, knowing there was nothing I could do other than stay off my cell phone. But thank GOD we're all safe. And I'm praying for those who are injured and those who have lost someone.
posted by melilotnfosco | 3:33 PM
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I'm in disbelief too... I can't imagine how it would be for you and the other people who live there! Everyone's in my thoughts & prayers too! (and I second praising God:)
we have so many family and friends who live within a few miles of that bridge - like didder said, we use it all the time. dad was on the bridge right next to that one just 45 minutes before the collapse.
Oh man! It's just so horrible. How are people dealing with driving? Was that your only bridge over the river?
there are two others fairly close, but that was definitely the main one (by way far). traffic is a mess right now, but they're turning highways into freeways, and hopefully coming up with other ideas, too.
actually the death toll isn't nearly as bad as it could've been. i think we all were imagining much worse. it still didn't hit me how bad it was, though, until i saw it on the national news. scary.
And it's been on the national news every night since then and probably will be for a while! But yeah, I'm amazed that they keep lowering the number of people missing, even though the death toll isn't increasing very much. I can't believe how much worse it could've been.
Yeah, the numbers we're getting aren't making any sense but that often happens with things like this. Are people still ok with driving? Are there hotlines and stuff set up for that? We had to drive over a bridge today and I hated it. I normally hate that bridge because it's really high and it turns- so it's especially bad in winter, but I could just see it falling apart beneath us. So scary. And our paper did a report on our cities bridges and the one we mainly use is in the worst 9 in the city so I'm not sure I want to go over that one either!
i think the main reason numbers keep changing is because they're finding out that some people were double counted - someone says "my husband is missing" and another says "my son is missing", and it turns out to be the same person.
thankfully the numbers are going down, not up.
i'm not worried about other bridges. i figure, the chances of one going down like that are few, and the chances of a second are even less. (although the other bridges weren't made for the kind of traffic that they're now getting. still - GOD's got it figured, so i'm not worried.)
"every one of my days was written in Your book before one of them came to be" - you'll go when it's your time, no sooner and no later
good point... plus also, if we can't swim, we might get rescued ;) ;)
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