Big Drama

On my way to pick up Sarah I noticed something was up. There was 2 Sheriffs parked with their lights on in each intersection on the main road leading to Sarah's school, and I saw 2 Police helicopters in the air. Not good, I figured, since Florida schools has a tendency to go into lock-down if there is a threat in the area.

Sure enough, when they opened the gates to let the parents in, the pick-up procedure was quite different.

The kids were all locked up in different locations, based on where they happened to be when the alarm from the Sheriff came in. Now they walked up to each car, got the child to be picked upped-name from the parent, walkie-talkied that to the other sheriff agents, who then HAND DELIVERED each child to their parents! No time to go to get their backpacks or anything, just grab on to the nice Sheriff's hand and GO! The kids all looked a bit timid when they got out to the cars :-)!

Something very serious is definitely going on! After I got Sarah, I was told to drive straight home, with my car doors locked and windows up. Gulp! But they would not let me know any further details. The entire pick-up procedure was extremely smooth, considering they were walking the children one by one to the cars...

Now I am just trying to figure out exactly WHAT is going on, I can still hear police siren sin the distance coming from that area...

Sarah seemed to take everything in stride, I explained that some bad guy probably robbed a bank or something, and that the sheriffs and the police were looking for him. On the way home we saw a pile of trash on the side of the road, and Sarah asked why that was there, not liking the idea someone was throwing trash on the ground like that. Then she said "That probably was that bad guy they are looking for, bad guys do stuff like that you know!"

Luckily our area don't see a lot of crime, so we are pretty lucky. Dramas like this is a rare occurrence around here, so no, aunt Elisabeth, you don't have to bring pepper spray :-)!

*** Just got an automated call from the school, the poor principal had almost lost her voice! She did a very good job informing about the lock-down, and that they were assisting in a "police effort" and working closely with the Sheriffs department. No explanation to WHAT the police is doing... The only thing was that one of the school buses is not able to drive the kids home, since the neighborhoods that bus go to are under a police lock-down, so the parents have to pick up their kids by car. Hmmm... Will be interesting to see what it was all about, still nothing on the news!***