(CL’d big time, was back on the LAST really long thread… Pardon the repeat)

Wish it were an OT:
My college freshman son who should have gotten out of his Physics class at 9 pm just texted me. Not to say he was heading for the light rail, as normal. To say he and two friends are in friend’s car, just left campus and heading to a nearby grocery store ‘to regroup.’ Because they left in a hurry, because there was an announcement: “There is an emergency on campus. Evacuate immediately.”

Says that’s all he knows. Says he’s safe.

Waiting for the next text, with my blood pressure rising.

(Now back to comment #256 of the previous thread! as I try to catch up on this very long thread day. I wasn’t going sleep well tonight anyway.)