It's absolutely no fun to run for your life with little or no information. I was in the Capitol at work in the Senate when the police began franticly shouting for everyone to get out. At first it sounded like a fight or disturbance in the corridors outside the Chamber. Then they burst in yelling for us to go. We ran. Get outside and had to dodge the armored Suburbans speeding leadership away. Heard, then spied, the F-16 banking hard over Union Station. The Capitol cops with their huge assault shotguns are running around screaming to run faster. An elderly lady had a heart attack near one of the office buildings, and was being carried by staffers away from the scene. People fell in the scramble. Why? All because a Cessna happens to make his way somewhere he doesn't belong. This crap has to stop. They need to blow one of these people out of the sky to get anyone approaching Washington to be a little more responsible. I got my information by using the Nextel direct connect to family outside of the metro area, asking them to turn on national news. Utter chaos. All in a day's work? This sucks.

Good thing Fiji's only 2 weeks away!