At a distance. In their FBI jackets- one of the apts across the street had bunches of guns and bomb making materials, so they’re all hovering behing the red tape. 'Course, the pain in the butt part is that my apt entrance is blocked off completely…nobody can drive in or out. All manymany of us…and the folks across the street. The Red Cross guys are being uninformative…“there are some hazardous materials across the street; please go back to your apt”…Why thank you; how is my husband supposed to come home? I had a ride and got dropped off.
The police are cranky too…the one on the north end was yelling “Don’t you know what a barricade means??” at people trying to get through…who were being cranky back.
Does anyone know what was in the OKC bomb? The news had a list of stuff in his apt, and someone told me it was the same stuff…what’s piperidine? I’m rambling- there was a test today, and I stayed up all night. Kinda funny- they knew last night, they let everyone out this morning, now they won’t let anyone back in…
It’s been a looooooong day.
The OKC bomb was Ammonium Nitrate (fertilizer) and Diesel fuel. Stuff you can find on any farm, but are rather unlikely to be found in suburbia.
I’m rather surprised that the police aren’t escorting poeple through the barricaded area, or at least providing a corridor for passage, if there isn’t an active bomb being worked.
It’s paranoia making; the news said they found the stuff after searching apts because of a fire yesterday. It was supposed to be started by lightning, but there wasn’t any last night…I’m across the street, and while it was raining, there wasn’t any lightning. I assume I would’ve heard a strike across the street.
The alternative rumor (much more interesting) that I heard from the lady across the hall is that it was a meth lab- It would be nice to hear something beyond “nothing going on here, ignore the 4 fire trucks and oodles of police cars and go home and eat supper…and no, noone can drive in or out…and we have no idea when anyone will be able to”
sigh
I have to be at school at 6 tomorrow- 'twould be nice to know if we’ll be able to have a car- schools 20 mins away by car, and they’ve diverted the bus rt.
Y’know, I see FBI people almost everyday. Of course, I work two blocks from the Hoover building in Washington.
The most excitement law enforcement-related thing I’ve had lately was arriving at the scene of a car-pedestrian misfortune over the weekend a few seconds after the accident (if not for the SUV in front of me, I would’ve seen it). Turns out two cars both tried to merge into the same lane at the same time and riccocheted off each other. One flew onto the sidewalk and struck a woman, seriously injuring her. (I’m amazed she’s still alive; I saw her lying on the ground. It didn’t look good.)
I managed to get out of there and saw oodles of ambulances and police cars heading to whence from where I came a minute later.