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[bironic]

Wow. Glad I didn't take the Metro home today.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_dc_metro_train_derailment
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/us/23webcrash.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202508.html

That's my line, near my stop, and a few minutes, perhaps, before I would have reached the spot.

Comments

[synn.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* thank goodness.
thanks for posting too, so I know you weren't there.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*hug*

Actually the report doesn't say which direction the train was going or which side of the U-shaped line it was on, so it might not have been near my stop or going the same way, but still. Yikes.

ETA: Yeah, no, that's the stop right before mine.

[synn.livejournal.com]

It Were Scary.

Clearly not as bad as for the people actually involved, but *still*

[euclase.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't, either. <3<3

[bironic.livejournal.com]

♥

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey. So glad you're all right, and I just ... I don't get what happened here, how it happened. I've never heard of trains colliding with each other like this.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I love how the spokesperson says he doesn't know what happened. Um - you had two trains on the same track?

Sigh. I used to think this only happened in Boston, where you get crashes every so often from drivers being drunk or text-messaging or stupid college kids crossing above-ground tracks without watching what's coming towards them. (This past fall, the driver even honked at one, but he didn't hear it because he had an iPod.)

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I am so relieved you weren't on the Metro. (((hugs)))

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Me too. I've been driving for a week now, but I almost took the train tonight to meet a friend for dinner.

[mer-duff.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I'm glad you're safe!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hope there aren't too many more injuries from the people who were on board.

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Good heavens! *clutches bironic possessively*

I think you had better do some comfort baking tonight.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

*hug*

I don't have the energy or all the ingredients for baking, but I have had some ice cream and am playing with a vid, which is just as good.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I'm so glad you're safe. It's always sobering to realize disaster came just that close.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Strange feeling. I passed through that spot on the train several times over the weekend.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

I've had that experience of, "That could so, SO easily have been me."

It's really unsettling.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you're safe. I have another friend who takes the DC metro to and from work. I haven't heard from him yet.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jeez, I hope he's all right. Is he on the Glenmont side (where the accident happened) or the Shady Grove?

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a clue. All I know is he takes the metro every day. I'm going through his blog and twitters now to see if he says what line/stops.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I hope it's nothing. Considering how many people take the Metro and that only two trains were involved, chances are he's just stuck in the massive delays the accident caused. I hope.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

Just got a direct-message on Twitter from him: Accident was 5 stops up from me. I left work at 3:40 yesterday, out of Metro by 4:40. If I worked late as planned, I'd have been on Red then.

Whew. Now I can officially stop my selfish worrying.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Also, the Post says this:

Police officials said families seeking information about people who may have been on the trains can call 202-727-9099.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Oh my yikes. I am happy you weren't there too.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Those trains are full to capacity with a lot of people standing. I can't imagine what happened to them all when the train came to a sudden leap-stop like that.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

...a good thing you didn't! Wow, an 'incident', indeed.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Deadliest incident in the DC Metro's history, yeah. *shakes head*

*hugs you hello and in relief*

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

You'll be proud of me, by the way -- this time I'm fixing the aspect ratio as soon as I import the clips. Figured out it's the ripping software that thinks the widescreen is 4:3, but Premiere has a setting where you can "interpret" footage into a different setting.

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's excellent. I've seen some flashy super-duper technical vids (recced from other fandoms) where the aspect ratio was off throughout, so I'm thinking it's just one of those things that you either automatically notice or you don't! I mean, you can obviously be trained to if you care enough, but I know some people just don't even 'see' it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I'm usually the first to complain when someone's flatscreen/plasma TV isn't set right for whatever we're watching, so I was surprised not to have noticed it on the last vid. I think I'd just been seeing those clips for so long that they looked normal. Not this time, though!

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ha, I've done that too. "Can I change the aspect ratio? I CAN'T WATCH IT LIKE THIS, SORRY." Picky, picky, picky XD

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Heh. Only now -- grrrrr -- it looks right in Premiere, but when I export it, it's all wrong! Exporting with 16:9 for some reason makes it 4:3, so it looks squarish and the people stretched vertically, and exporting it 4:3 makes it widescreen-shaped but the people are stretched a little too far horizontally. WTF?

Er, not to complain about something irrelevant. I'll put it in a vid filter post at some point.

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

Jesus Christ. That's terrifying. I'm glad as hell you didn't take the Metro home, either. *hugs you tight!*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

♥ Thank you. Me too!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're safe. Yikes.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Me too!

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're safe! *hugs*

I wonder if this will end up being another cellphone/text-messaging-related incident.

I'd really love to know how the following was possible, however (from the NY Times' website):

An elderly woman standing near them flew out of her seat and was sprawled on the floor.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

The moral: don't stand on subway seats.

I wonder how you don't see a train stopped in front of you, too.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOODNESS I AM VERY GLAD YOU ARE SAFE!! *clings*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes! I think I will continue to drive to work for the foreseeable future.

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is horrifying. *clutches you*

I'm so glad you're safe, my friend.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Apropos to nothing: saw this, and thought of you.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yes! That was a fascinating story. I read it online a few days before the show aired, and while the organization was wacky (it wasn't until at least 3/4 of the way through that the writer said the girl hadn't developed mentally either), it was still fascinating. I feel like I've also heard of a boy in India (?) whose body hasn't grown since he was a toddler.