I was supposed to take bus no. 14 home yesterday from the Botanic Gardens. But my mom called. "Nicoll Highway has collapsed! I just heard the news. I'll be picking you up." Nicoll Highway... what did she mean by 'collapsed'? I was curious. I didn't quite know how to picture a 'collapsed' highway in my mind. At first I thought the bridge over the Kallang River had broken across.
Later, I heard the radio. From the ECP, I could see police and civil defence vehicles and officers around Nicoll Highway. I saw the images on TV... and was aghast at how much like the scene of an earthquake the area looked. Oooo... scary. Knowing that the highway could be extremely packed at times, I was concerned about the casualty rates and vehicles trapped. "One dead, three hurt, three missing" was what was reported. Not as bad as what would have been expected, but it's a little shock to the system nonetheless. What could have caused it to happen? What about other areas which lie above the circle line tunnels? And other questions. These are all answered in the
ST articles.
And... just a little thought. This incident is only a small one on the scale of 'disasters and accidents', and yet the whole nation is creating such a hullabaloo out of it. This was not a terrorist attack; this is not an attack of any sort, but it is something that happened
on home ground. Imagine the shock, horror, shaken confidences and I-can't-believe-it mentality of the people of America, Spain, and countless other countries affected by acts of terror... I say God bless us all.
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