This town....

I just got back into town from Minneapolis. My second trip in a month.

Although a bit cliche, I am really surprised on how much has changed in the year and a half that I have been gone. The saddest to me is the downfall of Uptown.

Uptown has a very nostalgic place in my heart, probably a lot of people's hearts for the first shows of bands like the Replacements and Husker Du. For me, Uptown was where I spent my high school years. For a small town girl like me, who was weird and odd in a town of 7,000, saw that I infact was incredibly tame in comparison.

Calhoun Square is even more of a ghost town as when I was last there, No Borders, no chocolatier no Lavender Ghelatto ( Sounds weird, but really great.) Even though I was against it when it opened as being so anti-uptown, I am even upset that The GAP closed its doors. Davanni's gone (no late night hoagies)

Never did I think that Uptown would look like something out of a Mad Max movie. Can anyone tell me what happened?

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35 W bridge collapse in Minneapolis

Today at work in California I had to break the news to my sister that the 35W bridge by the U of M collapsed. She called me frantic today on her way home from work south of the airport and asked me to look on the internet to see what was going on. She thought she heard that a bridge collapsed but couldn't figure out where.

To see a time frame of what happened:
WCCO News

The national news paints a more optimistic view of what has happened, but there has been fatal injuries. It did happen during rush hour on a major interstate.

Reaching anyone via cell phone in the Twin Cities today has been extremely difficult. So far all I have had is good news.