All of a sudden, continuing to blog about a conference doesn’t matter. Are my kids safe? I was just boarding the plane at Midway when a seat-mate told me about the horrible bridge collapse in my home town. Hundreds of cars may have gone into the river? Oh, my God! I’ve driven over that bridge hundreds and hundreds of times since my days as a student at the U of M. 
The phone circuits were jammed. My first few tries to my sons and my wife would not go through. Thankfully, my daughter answered her cell phone (she hardly ever does), even though she was busy at a softball game. By some stroke of luck, she had just spoken to or texted both of her brothers….they were safe! I breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Then, my seat-mate and I tuned into AirTran’s Sirius satellite radio connection to get the very latest from Fox News, all the way home — live coverage, scary at times, but very timely and welcome. Some of it included patching into friendly voices I recognized from our local affiliates. It was a surreal experience — hanging onto every word as we flew through the hazy, orange, late-summer skies, which were looking like they could produce thunderstorms anytime, all the way home till we made our descent under a low ceiling.
Please pray for those who weren’t so lucky. This is a horrible disaster for many in the Twin Cities.
(Photo: AP/KMSP-TV)
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