theworldisgrey

Just a week after a rather significant event in Minneapolis, an earthquake hits near Jakarta, where my fiancee lives. It was about 60 miles offshore, and about 180 miles underground. It was too deep to cause a tsunami and any damage in the city, but it was definitely felt.

A bit of a tragedy struck in Minneapolis today. A bridge on one of the major freeways just outside of downtown collapsed just after rush hour. No indication as to why yet. It’s about 40 years old, and probably wasn’t quite engineered to handle the traffic it received. It was also undergoing some construction […]