As most of you saw or heard on the news recently, the 35W bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed yesterday.”  Fortunately our office was already closed by then and everyone from here had already left and crossed the river.”  Many of you know that our exit off the highway is at the end of this bridge and we use it everyday, many times a day.”  We are very grateful that all our families are safe and we feel the sorrow of our fellow Minnesotans who had family members on the bridge during the disaster.”  Thanks to all of you who’ve emailed and called to check on us today.”  Your concern for us and well wishing was very much appreciated.”  We will do everything possible to keep this tragedy from affecting our service but hope everyone will understand any delays in shipping that may have occurred.”  We don’t believe there were any problems but we won’t know until Monday if anything occurred beyond our doors.”  We are sending much of our staff home early for the rest of this week” and next week while” they try and find ways to reroute the nearly 200,000 vehicles that crossed that bridge daily.”  Again, the inconvenience we’ll suffer is nothing compared to the loss others are experiencing and we all feel very lucky today.

David and the entire Beanhead staff