Last night, out of the goodness of their hearts, the management at The Arch gave all of the employees tickets to the Cardinal game against the Atlanta Braves. I got to leave the studio at 6:10 and decided to drive to the nearest Metro-link station and take the rail to the stadium. When I got on the train, it was hot, nasty and very clear. Halfway down to the stadium, I looked to the north and after deciding that the windows on the train were NOT shaded, I wondered how the hell the sky got so dark so quickly. I quickly found out. After getting off the train (and walking into a blinding dust storm), all hell broke loose. Basically without warning,the winds blew so strong that we literally had to hang on for dear life. The box was right next to the Fox Sports Midwest broadcast that was set up to do the postgame report. The wind blew so hard, it literally tipped over the desk and tore the set to shreds.
After fretting over the fates of our families, Rick Wallace and I decided to get the hell out of dodge. Thank God Rick drove me to the Metro link stop because with all the power (Metro link runs on electricity) being out, I would still be trying to get home. Thanks Rick.
The wind was SO strong, it blew semi-trucks over on the highway on The Chain of Rocks bridge, blew a semi-truck into another car on the Poplar Street Bridge and blew bricks from a building in downtown St. Louis onto the Eads bridge. Obviously, traffic was at a standstill
On the way home, I saw that the roof from Terminal "D" at Lambert Airport had blown all the way onto the eastbound lane of Interstate 70.
Almost 500,000 thousand people are without power. I am not one of them (obviously).
Photos and a story from
St. Louis Post Dispatch and
stlmedia.net
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