As we talked, rocks were still being thrown by the overpass; we could see them over the top of the makeshift barricade built of ripped-up street signs and pilfered metal fence, from around a construction site, and augmented by a bus that had tried to ram through the defenders last night but which had been captured.
From the top of the pedestrian overpass we caught a glimpse of Hongan-ji Temple … The road leading to Kachidoki Bridge was wide but dimly lit, with few shops or restaurants and only the occasional passing car.
We had an overpass where every day the world was ending.
Paradox sits under an overpass, and we didn't know what we were looking for.
What we saw on that overpass was beyond imagining: there were suicides, people jumping off the bridge, older people who couldn't take it, there were dead bodies floating underneath, the whole overpass reeked of feces and urine.
The path back to the mosque was a cloud of tear gas, and so Valentina and I walked onto an empty overpass, where we were picked up by a microbus driver who said that it would be impossible to drive us back downtown, to the hotel where we were supposed to meet the newspaper staff, but let us cram in for a short ride away from the perils of the car bridge.
Moments later, we went under an overpass with spectators on the highway, waving us along.
"It wasn't our goal for this week so we've definitely overpassed our goals but it's all about next year for us really," said Clark.
NASA announced #SkyScience on October 1, and since then we've received about 2,500 overpass requests and more than 360 submitted cloud observations, and we're hoping for more.
Though it was dark, I could see that we were near a freeway overpass.
