Code Orange

It was a crazy day at work today.

The morning started out like any other normal work morning.

One of our clients threatened to kill a worker, and we all were warned not to allow him in the building. 

Then, around 10:00 the power turned off. For about an hour and a half we sat in the dark and waited for the power to turn back on. With no computers, no printers, no copiers, or phones we couldn't do any work. 

Then, at around 2:00 we received a Code Orange: "external threat."

Supposedly a few days ago a man kidnapped his wife. She was found dead in her car today and the police traced the guy back to his house. 

Three blocks down from where I work.

They had the house surrounded and expected gun fire. Our building was on lock-down and the police were evacuating nearby houses.

So, again we sat and waited.  And since this was all very exciting and we were totally unmotivated to work by this time, we toured the building trying to find a window we could watch out of.  We never did find a good view but we found out that it's a pretty creepy old building. 

We spent the next two hours on the internet watching for any news updates. 

Finally at 4:15 we received the good news that the police were inside negotiating with the suspect and the area was now safe to leave. 

:) I guess these are normal occurrences when working on the south side.

In Christ

~Michelle

*I don't know why it's doing this white background thing.