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Re: minneapolis bridge collapse--Keith Taylor and others OK??


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  • Subject: Re: minneapolis bridge collapse--Keith Taylor and others OK??
  • From: SusanV <susanvoss3@gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:43:34 -0400
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Hi Keith... glad to hear you and Beth are ok.  I thought of you both
the moment I heard the news.  I hope you get good news about your
friend.

Such an unimaginable disaster.

take care,
susan

On 8/2/07, Keith Taylor <taylordow@sprintmail.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for your concern.  To be honest, it's still a bit surreal. I
> travel the bridge twice a day, to and from the studio and although
> it's not as wide as Sandy knows it, they estimate around 50 cars were
> on it at the time. I left to go home an hour early as I wasn't
> feeling too well, otherwise I would have certainly been in that area
> around then. Probably hundreds of other people with similar
> stories... We're still waiting for news on a friend who we haven't
> been able to reach. So sad.
>
> Keith.
>
> On Aug 2, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Sandy King wrote:
>
> >
> > Really horrifying. The event touched home with me because I grew up
> > near the Mississippi river and have crossed over it on bridges
> > literally thousands of time. In fact, I spent the past week near
> > Natchez, Mississippi and in Memphis and crossed over the river in
> > those two places 25 times or more. Not sure how wide the river is
> > in Minneapolis, but down south it gets up to a mile or so wide so
> > you are on the bridge a long time when you cross. I always am a bit
> > fearful of earthquakes or a crazy barge bringing the river down,
> > but never of structural defects. I don't want to get into a blame
> > game, but this just seems criminal to me.
> >
> > Sandy King
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 3:33 PM -0600 8/2/07, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> >> Keith, Barry, and all other Mpls residents on this list,
> >> Hope you are all OK in this horrific tragedy.  I can imagine how
> >> at the very least the traffic disruption will be phenomenal. I
> >> know when I lived there I used that bridge twice a day going to
> >> the U of Minn.
> >>
> >> I have been glued to the TV since last night watching this.
> >> Chris
> >> _____________________________________
> >>
> >> Christina Z. Anderson
> >> Assistant Professor, Photo Option Coordinator
> >> Montana State University, VCB 220
> >> Box 173350
> >> Bozeman Montana 59718
> >> 406.994.6219
> >> CZAphotography.com
> >> _____________________________________
> >
>
>


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