Sorry to use this forum for this purpose but our area has a sizable contingent of pipers. If you are a piper or local musician on this board and are reading this, please reply to this posting. Please.
Tom Klein
Bridge collapse: MN Pipers please check in
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Sorry to hear about this. Hope no one you know is hurt.
For those interested:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 050/SPORTS
For those interested:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... 050/SPORTS
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All good here. I don't know anyone on the bridge though my mother drives under it twice a day and had just driven under it about half an hour before the collapse.
Apparently, there are six dead so far which is an amazingly small number considering the time, location and massive amount of bridge that came down.
Apparently, there are six dead so far which is an amazingly small number considering the time, location and massive amount of bridge that came down.
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Seven fatalities, now, I regret to report.
Chiffpiper ceadach is safe, as am I. I live only about 5-6 blocks from the tragedy, so I'm pretty stunned. The weird thing is I didn't hear anything unusual, and all my windows were open. I only knew about it because of the breaking news. Terrible tidings.
I wanted to go to the nearby Stone Arch Bridge and play laments for the victims, but it's all blockaded. Maybe tomorrow.
BTW, there's a post on this in the Pub, too. I let 'em know I was okay, and asked for a head count.
Chiffpiper ceadach is safe, as am I. I live only about 5-6 blocks from the tragedy, so I'm pretty stunned. The weird thing is I didn't hear anything unusual, and all my windows were open. I only knew about it because of the breaking news. Terrible tidings.
I wanted to go to the nearby Stone Arch Bridge and play laments for the victims, but it's all blockaded. Maybe tomorrow.
BTW, there's a post on this in the Pub, too. I let 'em know I was okay, and asked for a head count.
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Relief and concern...
Glad to hear that you are all safe and sound, Tommy, Patrick and Jason, any word from Pat McCormick or Dan Morgan or the Lerwicks?
Greg, Karen's brother, took a different way back from the airport than usual after flying back from Chicago and missed being on that bridge because he chose to avoid construction. He may have been on that bridge if he had chosen to go his usual way home.
Hope everyone else reports in soon.
very worried,
Pat and Karen
Greg, Karen's brother, took a different way back from the airport than usual after flying back from Chicago and missed being on that bridge because he chose to avoid construction. He may have been on that bridge if he had chosen to go his usual way home.
Hope everyone else reports in soon.
very worried,
Pat and Karen
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No word on the others yet. We'll all be checking on each other tomorrow, no doubt. Authorities are asking that the hoi polloi refrain from using mobile phones as we'll jam up the airwaves or something. Whatever. A lot of people are pissed off, and are blaming, right or wrong, the road construction that's gone on there for what many of us think has been far too long and poorly organised to be reasonable.
Most glad that Greg's okay, too, Pat and Karen. My best to you all.
Most glad that Greg's okay, too, Pat and Karen. My best to you all.
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The Cole clan is fully accounted for. One of my sisters works as a nurse at a hospital near the bridge (or former bridge, ex bridge...?), and she said the sh*t really hit the fan last night -- tons of folks came in all at the same time.
What a mess. I hope and pray that they find everyone. Prayers to all of the families of those that have perished.
What a mess. I hope and pray that they find everyone. Prayers to all of the families of those that have perished.
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