Is this really happening?

Picked up JT, and hit the road this afternoon. After enduring a lengthy border delay we hit Gastrak (my all time favorite gas station and the official start to most trips) and were on the way to Minneapolis. My new ride has XM satellite radio so the long trip was perfect to check out the various channels the service provides. Shortly after 6 pm we were around Fargo and I discovered a series of channels that broadcast local traffic in the largest US cities.

After rolling through reports from LA, New York, Chicago etc we found a Minneapolis traffic station and turned it on. The girl doing the traffic cycled through a bunch of generic traffic info and then, almost as if normal mentioned "I35 is closed to traffic both ways due to a bridge collapse". This seemed pretty crazy but there was no further info and it seemed like just a really bad traffic situation for the locals. We moved on thru the dial not thinking much of it.

A little later we had the Twins-Royals game on the radio. Not long after we tuned in the Twins broadcaster announced the following: "The Twins PR staff has just informed us that tomorrows game (the one we were going to be at) has been postponed due to today's tragedy". WTF?? Obviously this was a very serious situation, much more than we could have imagined. By now I'm sure you have seen the pics and heard the details of the 7+ dead, many more injured and traffic chaos in the Twin Cities.

Listening to CNN the rest of the way the scope of the tragedy became apparent. Roger who we'll be picking up tomorrow, was in the parking lot of the Metrodome leaving his car to go into the game when the flurry of sirens and helicopters appeared on the scene. Our chat was brief but it was obviously a surreal scene - I'll update more on what it was like at the dome tomorrow when we pick him up and have a chance to get the full details.

So the game is off tomorrow and we'll probably head straight to Milwaukee and really get this trip started, far away from the I35 and the Metrodome. Thoughts right now are with the victims of the collapse. Hopefully tomorrow will be more about booze, baseball and gas station cuisine but right now we're just kinda watching CNN with our jaws on the floor.