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[melannen]

Today's been a creepy sort of day - I've got the "am I the only one left alive" feeling I always get when there's been nothing to take me out of the house, and all afternoon the sky's been grumbling away - like it has for days - but not actually going all the way, just holding the tension

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[elspethdixon]

I kept expecting classes in College Park to be cancelled, but I'm stuck in boring computer class anyway, even though about a half-dozen students aren't here.

Today in the Engineering library was weird -- everyone on the reference desk spent the whole time checking CNN.com every five minutes, the same way we did when the Tech shooting was going on. College Park hasn't been hit as hard as New York yet (fewer people, I guess), but I here they're considering closing down the metro and stopping the metrobus in DC, because they don't want commuters carrying the infection in and out of the city.

The Pentagon and the Capitol are both sealed off, and according to my dad and sister, all US military bases are on lockdown, nobody in or out. They're both stuck on base at Pax and can't get home.

I'm glad seanchai is already safe back at the apartment now that it's getting dark -- I'm a little woried about walking home from class at 9:00, though I'm not sure sunset will make much of a difference, since the zombies started coming out during the day,

[melannen]

Oh, man, CP has a really weird relationship with cancelling classes for emergencies - they'll not do it, and then everyone will complain, and then for awhile they'll be trigger-happy, and then nothing. I remember when 9/11 happened, what campus was like, everybody huddled in doorways in the dorms tryin to get news - I still have a printout of the stripped-down Cnn.com crisis homepage. Be glad they didn't try to do any emergency stuff - they do it really badly; I was there for two different crises.

Oh, and it's the first Wendesday of the month, isn't it, so I bet everybody though when the emergency sirens when off that it was just the usual test! (Or did they even set them off? I always though that was kind of dumb.)

I bet they'll cancel classes tomorrow, though.

And I'm glad your people are safe; military bases should be okay. Although I wouldn't want to be in Arlington right now....

[elspethdixon]

They sent a couple army units into Arlington this morning, with flamethrowers. I'm sure somebody's going to complain about disrespecting the dead, but with the way all the DC hospitals are filling up...

They're sending civilians casualties to Walter Reed now, because the Georgetown and Howard University hospitals are over-loaded. The hospital situation is turning into a real problem in D.C. -- Greater Southeast Community Hospital was over-crowded before the rising even started, just because it's a badly-maintained mess.

The Metro's been entirely shut down; the zombies like the tunnels too much, and there's rumors that they're using them to travel. They think that might be how they got across the Anacostia after the bridge was barricaded.

[tarimanveri]

Things are still quiet (but not too quiet) here. I didn't even hear about what was going on until noon when I got home from picking strawberries and turned out my computer. Of course, by that time all hell had broken loose in the major centres, but we're pretty isolated here so it may be a while yet before we start to see the effects. I'm a little worried about my dad and brother who are working in Kelowna where the airport and the big highway to Vancouver are, and of course, I haven't been able to get in touch at all with my friends on the East coast and in the US, but I'm trying to keep it together and focus on my survival plans for when the worst inevitably happens. My family and friends are all stubborn and intelligent (although admittedly those nice shiny, spicy brains might be more of a liability than an advantage in this situation), so I'm sure they're more than capable of looking after themselves, wherever they are now.

[melannen]

Yeah - it must suck to be in one of the harder-hit areas, or if you got into trouble before you realized what was up, but I'm honestly not too worried right now - we have food and drink to hole up here for weeks if necessary, and it's not like they're that hard to take down, once you've realized what you're dealing with.

Of course, I may be eating my words later, but. I'm glad lj's still up or I'd probably be either a lot more worried or in a lot more trouble.

... (I always though Berkowitz was probably a zombie of some sort anyway!)