Hi Everyone:

Our apartment building is about one mile upstream from this bridge that collapsed. We are not allowed to go near the site, and today there are many police there because of the President's visit. Mrs. Bush visited yesterday.

We don't know any more than the rest of the country about what is going on there since we are not allowed to drive near there. We get our information from our city newspaper and the national news TV channels. Lucky for me, I don't know anyone who was on that bridge. One friend however, was five minutes away from getting there! He was sitting in the line caused by the traffic jam. He is a nurse in a health care center and I told him I believe he was spared because he still has work to do here on earth.

Shirley H.