Etoile

Holy shit!

OSG too, and I know there's some DC burbanites. Hope everyone's OK.

H tells me he rented a car today, I don't know if that's just coincidence or if things are that fucked up.
 
Holy shit!

OSG too, and I know there's some DC burbanites. Hope everyone's OK.

H tells me he rented a car today, I don't know if that's just coincidence or if things are that fucked up.

OSG has been posting off and on most of the day. I hope her PYL is ok, though.
 
Daddy is fine, he drives to work 99% of the time. the freaky thing is that 1% when he takes the metro, he takes the red line and could have been on one of those two trains. !

the local news has been covering this non-stop since it happened. still no clear number on how many dead or how many injured, but i do think they finally got everyone physically out of the trains (some were stuck).
 
Daddy is fine, he drives to work 99% of the time. the freaky thing is that 1% when he takes the metro, he takes the red line and could have been on one of those two trains. !

the local news has been covering this non-stop since it happened. still no clear number on how many dead or how many injured, but i do think they finally got everyone physically out of the trains (some were stuck).

H's line too, the stop before his! He just lucked out today and had to get a zip car for something.
 
so did you. :rose:

Aw.

And you too.

Wow, creepy.

He was kind of amused at the attention this is getting. I asked him if it's like when everyone was asking if I was ok from the bridge collapse.

I'm on the phone with him again he's in traffic. Quote

"I fucking hate Virginia."
 
etoile is ok she's been twitting about the metro a bunch though.
 
Glad to hear it. She's a voice of ... sanity? ... here sometimes. Other times, not so much ;)

Hey!!! ;)

I'm fine, thanks everyone for the concern! If I did take metro to work I'd be on unaffected parts of the system, but like osg's Daddy I drive 99% of the time. I have some friends who are also red line riders and they're fine too.

It's a really horrific accident, 9 dead and over 75 injured (including 2 responders). This is the worst accident in the nearly 35 years Metrorail has been in existence. Almost all the injured have been released and/or downgraded from critical condition. We haven't had a fatal accident on Metro since 1982. (People jumping onto the tracks happens about once a year though.)
 
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VERY glad that you are safe and sound Etoile, and that all the spouses, partners, subs, Doms, SO's and friends and or family of our DC area kinksters are okay.

My prayers and thoughts for the families and friends of the Metro accident victims.
 
Final death toll seems to be 9. The train was in automatic mode, and the emergency brake was engaged. They are sending the operator's blood for toxicology and checking her cell phone and text records. The first train stopped because there was already a train at the next platform; the fact that the train was in automatic mode seems to indicate (to me) that signals failed. The question about the operator remains if she could have hit the brake sooner, I guess; she wasn't actually driving. The track is not straight where the accident occurred, it has a slight curve there. Such a horrible tragedy.
 
I had Noor check on ITW for me earlier while I was at work. She reports that she posted here this morning.
 
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