There’s nothing wrong with you. It’s okay to sit with these feelings.

It is shocking and that does not sound like an inappropriate response.

Hey, don't be too hard on yourself. I'm feeling it too, all the way from Medfield. It's a loss.

No shame in feeling human friend

> I don't know what's wrong with me but seeing this and knowing there were casualties made me cry.

I think that's called "having feelings". Nothing wrong with it.

It’s called being human.

I worked next door to the church that was shot up in Charleston and felt similarly moved despite not knowing them, never having been inside the building, and not having even been a Christian at the time.

It is a bit strange at some level - not having any true connection beyond proximity but you should probably worry if you _don’t_ at least feel a little something.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't even know where to start with this comment.

>I don't know what's wrong with me

I would be much more concerned if you didn't feel devastated by this and you didn't want to cry.

What you're describing is a normal human reaction to a tragedy.

Nothing wrong with crying. I cry sometimes. Heck, if I spend too much time thinking about the 343 firefighters who died on 9/11, it will still bring a tear to my eye even after all these years. It's just part of the human condition. Cherish it.

Do you happen to know how they stopped traffic? Are there warning lights at the ends of the bridge? I have seen bridges of this sort but they are fairly rare.

I'm wondering if that's how they stopped almost all of the traffic. Flip a switch, most people stop, a couple of assholes blow through the caution and FAFO.

Based on comments elsewhere two police cars were able to block traffic with mere seconds before the impact. There was a construction crew on the bridge repairing potholes so the police may have already been nearby related to that.