Yikes

While her loyalties are almost entirely with the Badgers, Gretchen actually went to school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Whenever the weather gets cold, she talks about how nothing compares to the cold of walking to class over a bridge across the Mississippi River on a frigid winter day. So, needless to say, she has been pretty freaked out by the collapse of the I-35W bridge yesterday, especially since she drove that freeway countless times (and actually lived adjacent to it), and the bridge she walked across on those cold winter mornings is right next to the one that collapsed (in the lower right corner of this picture):



Having been through the Bay Area earthquake in 1989 and the Northridge quake in 1994, that's the sort of thing I've seen up close, but I certainly never expected to see something like that in a non-earthquake zone...