It took a close call to give people fresh perspective. Granted the close call was off by about 4 hours, it was too close, nonetheless. Yup, this is with regards to the road collapse on Nicoll Highway. When I heard the power blackout in Raffles Place and Suntec, I was thinking that it could be another power shortage like last week. Then when Brian Richmond announced that there was a collapsed road on Nicoll Highway, I thought it was something like a depression on the surface. As the news kept filtering in, and a gas explosion was included in the equation, things seemed to be rather terrible. Finally, I realised how bad the situation was when I read that there was one casualty during class. How did it happen ? I read the news from Channel News Asia and wondered how the collapse came about. Like was the collapse caused by the gas explosion or was it because of the collapsed road, the gas pipe burst ? It's scary how it seemed that the support beams had given way, thus causing a whole chain of events leading to fatalities ! As of this morning, rescuers had found a second DB and the 3 who are still missing are presumed to be dead too.

*sighs*

Makes you think, how something like this could happen, eh ? Then again like what Roz wrote, accidents do happen. Anywhere at anytime. I must admit, it gave me quite a fright because together with my mother, we were travelling on the exact same road about 4 hours before the disaster !