Whenever you hear of a disaster, the most common question asked is, “how could God let something like this happen?”  The same is asked whenever a troubled kid walks into a school and unloads his AK-47.  When and earthquake, tornado or hurricane strikes, we call it an “act of God,” as if assigning blame to some faceless entity could provide us with some measure of comfort.

God was on 35W.

I addressed this subject on Belief.Net just after the tsunami in the Indian Ocean with the following short post.

(Update:  More photos of the crisis in the galleries.)

The drive into work today was surreal.  Hell, the past 24 hours can be described as no less than surreal.  To avoid potential highway congestion, I took the normal side streets from my home to work.  As I passed over interstate 35W on the north, I could se no more than five cars south-bound on the highway beneath.  Others who follow a similar commute described it best.  "The speed limit on the highway today was seventy-five."