Hello,
Since this site has been good therapy for many of us, just posting and sharing our feelings about things with each other, I need to go to the well, so to speak.
I know some of you have been to Chicago, and others know of the place I'm talking about, which is the John Hanock building. This is one of the two tallest in Chicago, with about 100 floors, right on Michigan ave. Well, as you may have seen on your news or on CNN, there was a tragedy yesterday, when window cleaning scaffolds broke loose with the wind and fell 40 some floors, crushing cars in traffic below, killing 3 and seriously injuring a few others. As some of you know, my job requires responding to just such incidents. It is hard to say how erie it was to respond to the scene and see these cars in the intersection, demolished. You know from just looking at them that there were people killed.
As it turns out, one of the women was in town for her 30th birthday, which was to have been today, and was going to attend a party at one of the hotels downtown in her honor last night. Another victim was a close friend of hers. The third was a women from the city, in a different vehicle. I haven't heard the condition lately of two others who were in critical condition and may not survive. Suffice to say, I had a hard time falling asleep last night.
We all do things in our day to day routine that seem so normal, and safe, and yet it seems no matter what you do, there is risk.
I don't know if there is a moral to this, and if there is, I don't know what it is. I guess I suppose it's to enjoy life and to never stay mad at your family and dear ones.
Sorry this is not upbeat, but thanks for letting me share with you.
Joe
ps. I just realised from posts that this is Mother's day there. Hope you all had a good one. And be good to your mothers also.
Since this site has been good therapy for many of us, just posting and sharing our feelings about things with each other, I need to go to the well, so to speak.
I know some of you have been to Chicago, and others know of the place I'm talking about, which is the John Hanock building. This is one of the two tallest in Chicago, with about 100 floors, right on Michigan ave. Well, as you may have seen on your news or on CNN, there was a tragedy yesterday, when window cleaning scaffolds broke loose with the wind and fell 40 some floors, crushing cars in traffic below, killing 3 and seriously injuring a few others. As some of you know, my job requires responding to just such incidents. It is hard to say how erie it was to respond to the scene and see these cars in the intersection, demolished. You know from just looking at them that there were people killed.
As it turns out, one of the women was in town for her 30th birthday, which was to have been today, and was going to attend a party at one of the hotels downtown in her honor last night. Another victim was a close friend of hers. The third was a women from the city, in a different vehicle. I haven't heard the condition lately of two others who were in critical condition and may not survive. Suffice to say, I had a hard time falling asleep last night.
We all do things in our day to day routine that seem so normal, and safe, and yet it seems no matter what you do, there is risk.
I don't know if there is a moral to this, and if there is, I don't know what it is. I guess I suppose it's to enjoy life and to never stay mad at your family and dear ones.
Sorry this is not upbeat, but thanks for letting me share with you.
Joe
ps. I just realised from posts that this is Mother's day there. Hope you all had a good one. And be good to your mothers also.