Nope, but close…
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[li]In the mid-1970s, I arrived at my subway stop near Penn one morning to find every cop and car in the city of Philadelphia parked outside! :eek: What the heck was going on? Turns out the city was trying to get the infamous MOVE organization out of West Philly.[/li][li]Much later (in fact late last year) I’m sitting in my office when a co-worker runs by saying to everyone “come look, an airplane crashed!” I worked in some high-rise office towers right next to a local sport airport. We ran into one of the conference rooms and sure enough! A plume of smoke was rising above a huge fire on the other side of the freeway. I asked the guy if he’d seen it crash. “No,” he replied, “but what else could it be?” Turns out it was the local PG&E headquarters; a chemical fire had broken out. :smack: [/li][/ol]
The original phone call was the reverse 9-1-1 system that is a recording. You can ask a recording whatever you please but it is unlikely that you will receive an answer to your question.
The nurse actually suggested Google/earth. She has it in “real-time” on her computer at home–maybe, her husband works in IT. But at the office, when I Googled the zip code, I saw immediately that is was a static photo of the area by satelitte.
This is Orlando. The area under lockdown spanned from the old naval training center to the FSMall and west toward I-4. Everything around Fern Creek Elementry, Audobon Park Elementry, The Orlando Science Center, Lew P Gardens, The Florida Hospital. Actively blocked were the little side streets off of Bumby up to Colonial and a portion of Mills Avenue. The 408 was a bth getting home Monday. Today? It purred like a kitten between the I-4 on ramp to Conway Toll Plaza.
The receptionist said there was a blurb on the (Monday) 5pm news when she got home (she is located away from the area under LD).
There was a message left at 6pm that evening on our office voice mail giving the “all clear”.
WESH.com said it was someone who threaten to harm himself and others. He had argued with his wife and mouthed off to his family and they called the police. There were 20 firearms in the house. (Who needs 20 firearms?) He went to sleep or at least lay down for a period of time and they swooped in and dragged him out.
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Okay, in light of the fact that many of SD members own multiple weapons, (there is a thread with pictures :eek: ) I was being a tad snarky.
One does not “need” multiple weapons, however, one may enjoy and collect them.
I am sure our fellow members with firearms collections do not beat up their spouses, threaten suicide, and to “plink” passersby like the individual that caused the situation in my OP.
Heh. I’m sure her husband is pulling her leg.
I was working at Atlanta’s Piedmont Center back in 1999 when nine people were killed by a gunman. Everything we knew about the situation was what we heard on the radio; complex security was nowhere to be found. We locked all the doors and moved into an interior room of the office. After waiting about an hour and not hearing anything, we declared democracy and voted to all leave the office as a group, head to our cars and go home. Happily, everyone made it out safe and sound and not much worse for the wear. As it happens, the gunman was long gone by the time we decided to leave.
If you go to the linked article, about halfway down the page you’ll see an aerial picture of the complex. The shooting happened in one of the four buildings arranged in an X. I worked in one of the four buildings arranged in an O and situated to the left.
To answer your question: yes, there was no “big blam” for me in that situation, and thank goodness.