We were getting on a flight to leave Boston that afternoon. It was a little weird in the airport, but the full situation hadn’t set in yet.
Ironically the flight home from LA a week later was more stressful, as there had been the manhunt and nighttime capture of them at that point.
My brother was house sitting for us just a couple miles from MIT and had to be locked down, but it wasn’t the direction they went after the security guard incident. I think they ended up in Watertown if memory serves.
I was about 2 blocks from the boat they found djokhar hiding in in Watertown. I was forced out of my apartment at gunpoint. This was after I’d tried to see what the streets looked like and was told “GET THE FUCK INSIDE.” I could hear the commotion, flashbangs, when they found him. Spent most of a night listening to police radio to get an idea what was happening outside.
Shit was surreal.
I also worked at a national landmark, and was thus on a ‘need to know basis’ making minimum wage but also being briefed by feds about not disrupting/how to identify the feds. “Anyone here with a dog today is almost definitely FBI, don’t disrupt them.”
We were getting on a flight to leave Boston that afternoon. It was a little weird in the airport, but the full situation hadn’t set in yet.
Ironically the flight home from LA a week later was more stressful, as there had been the manhunt and nighttime capture of them at that point.
My brother was house sitting for us just a couple miles from MIT and had to be locked down, but it wasn’t the direction they went after the security guard incident. I think they ended up in Watertown if memory serves.
I was about 2 blocks from the boat they found djokhar hiding in in Watertown. I was forced out of my apartment at gunpoint. This was after I’d tried to see what the streets looked like and was told “GET THE FUCK INSIDE.” I could hear the commotion, flashbangs, when they found him. Spent most of a night listening to police radio to get an idea what was happening outside.
Shit was surreal.
I also worked at a national landmark, and was thus on a ‘need to know basis’ making minimum wage but also being briefed by feds about not disrupting/how to identify the feds. “Anyone here with a dog today is almost definitely FBI, don’t disrupt them.”