37°F this morning with a light wind. 90% of the snow from Sunday is gone now. Dark when I left the house, but by the time I made it to work the sun was coming up and it looks like it will turn into a nice day.

As I left the house I remembered that today was our company chili feed and I had signed up to bring corn chips. I didn't have any at the house, so I was going to have to stop on the way to work. My two best grocery options were to ride a mile in the opposite direction and then backtrack, but have a mostly calm commute, or ride about an extra mile off my path but kind of in the same direction, but then have to ride quite a bit of really busy fast moving streets. I decided to go with the calmer route even though it was longer.

Then, about halfway to work I was coming down the MUP when I saw flashing lights up ahead. At first I thought it was a park department vehicle, but as I got closer I realized it was police cars. I stopped and an officer came out and greeted me. He told me there was a bad accident (by this time I could see the wreckage) and that they had the trail closed. He was friendly, so I asked him if it was possible to dismount and walk down the path as long as I make sure to stay away from everyone. He apologized and said that he couldn't let me do that. I didn't really expect him to, but I figured it didn't hurt to ask. We chatted again for a few seconds and then I turned around and backtracked again. So I wound up having to ride an extremely busy street anyway.

From what I can gather, a car was going down the interstate and somehow flew off, down the embankment, through a fence, across the MUP and into the river. A toddler was flung from the car into the river and they had rescued her. When I arrived they were still doing a water search as they didn't know how many people were in the vehicle, and apparently the driver wasn't able to tell them. Didn't look like a good situation. Haven't heard yet if there were any casualties.